I have a client who's computer was freaking out. Doing some digging into it I found it was a motherboard issue and they decided to just buy a new computer and have me clone the hard drive on the old PC so it could just be plugged in and work with everything in the office.
Upon arrival of the computer I took the HDD out put it in the cloning cradle with the original and let the clone program do it's thing. An hour later it says it's done. I plug in the cloned drive and boot up the PC only to find a blue box saying "no boot source found, please install an operating system on your hard drive"
I went into the BIOS after seeing the message and the Hard Drive is not in the boot order list but if I go to storage it does see the hard drive as being connected through SATA.
So because there was nothing inherently wrong with the original hard drive I decided to plug that one into the computer instead to see if it would boot up but I got the exact same message!
I know I could just wipe the new drive and do a fresh install of windows but I was really hoping to just be able to keep all the files and settings which is why I thought of doing an upgrade install but that requires me to be able to actually boot to the desktop.
Basically I'm just trying to avoid having to reinstall windows and manually copy files and settings over if at all possible.
Upon arrival of the computer I took the HDD out put it in the cloning cradle with the original and let the clone program do it's thing. An hour later it says it's done. I plug in the cloned drive and boot up the PC only to find a blue box saying "no boot source found, please install an operating system on your hard drive"
I went into the BIOS after seeing the message and the Hard Drive is not in the boot order list but if I go to storage it does see the hard drive as being connected through SATA.
So because there was nothing inherently wrong with the original hard drive I decided to plug that one into the computer instead to see if it would boot up but I got the exact same message!
I know I could just wipe the new drive and do a fresh install of windows but I was really hoping to just be able to keep all the files and settings which is why I thought of doing an upgrade install but that requires me to be able to actually boot to the desktop.
Basically I'm just trying to avoid having to reinstall windows and manually copy files and settings over if at all possible.
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