Hello,
My hard drive started failing, so I bought a 1 TB WD Green to replace it. I backed up everything on the old hard disk to two different locations before inserting the new hard drive -- a secondary internal hard drive and a portable external hard drive. However, I've had nothing but problems with transferring the contents of my old hard drive to the new one.
I was hoping in restoring everything from my old hard drive to my new one using Macrium Reflect Free, but so far, neither of the two main methods have worked. I tried using a Windows PE disk to restore an image on my portable hard drive, and after the program was done, Windows XP wouldn't boot up -- after the green Gateway text appeared and disappeared, all I got was a blinking place marker on a black screen. I reinstalled Windows XP, created a Linux Rescue CD and tried restoring an image using it, but I got the exact same result.
The only reason I can think why this might be happening is that I created an image of my portable hard drive's contents (since I didn't realize I needed to make an image until after replacing my main hard drive), but I don't know if this really is the source of my problems. Another thing I suppose I should add is that in many of the tutorials for this process, I noticed that partitions were mentioned. My hard drive has only one partition, but I don't know whether that is relevant to this situation or not.
Any help or advice with this problem would be greatly appreciated.
Thank you.
My hard drive started failing, so I bought a 1 TB WD Green to replace it. I backed up everything on the old hard disk to two different locations before inserting the new hard drive -- a secondary internal hard drive and a portable external hard drive. However, I've had nothing but problems with transferring the contents of my old hard drive to the new one.
I was hoping in restoring everything from my old hard drive to my new one using Macrium Reflect Free, but so far, neither of the two main methods have worked. I tried using a Windows PE disk to restore an image on my portable hard drive, and after the program was done, Windows XP wouldn't boot up -- after the green Gateway text appeared and disappeared, all I got was a blinking place marker on a black screen. I reinstalled Windows XP, created a Linux Rescue CD and tried restoring an image using it, but I got the exact same result.
The only reason I can think why this might be happening is that I created an image of my portable hard drive's contents (since I didn't realize I needed to make an image until after replacing my main hard drive), but I don't know if this really is the source of my problems. Another thing I suppose I should add is that in many of the tutorials for this process, I noticed that partitions were mentioned. My hard drive has only one partition, but I don't know whether that is relevant to this situation or not.
Any help or advice with this problem would be greatly appreciated.
Thank you.