I have source XP dual boot on 1.5 terrabyte WD hd. Using Gparted I copied partitions to a Western Digital 750GB WD7500AACS but for some reason partition 1 always hangs after loading screen. Safe mode won't go into windows either. Partition 2 boots up fine. Ran checkdisk /r and Western Digital Data Lifeguard tools long test to check disk. all passes on the 750.
Here is what confuses me.
When I copy to 500 GB Samsung HD501LJ partition 1 boots fine.
Tried clonezilla on the 750, same results.
Any body have any idea why my 500 boots up fine but not the WD 750?
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Clonezilla partition copy did not work. However somehow I got it to perform a disk copy even to a smaller disk size, and during this it copied some hidden section b4 the partitions, MBR or something. After this I could not get it to boot at all, so I used gparted again, set the partition to active and now it boots partition 1 on the 750 HD!
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Somehow by setting some checkboxes I did get Clonezilla to proceed with a full local disk copy from a lager disk to a smaller one. Yeah there were errors, and I knew the partitions would not copy properly, but I had a hunch that XP on boot was checking some other hidden section of the disk or something outside of the partitions. So I attempted to boot it after the cloneazilla copy and it gave non-bootable device error. The same as when partition is not active. So after this I booted up gParted to get a view of what paritions where there. From what I recall it was one large partition. I deleted the large parition and used gParted to copy partition 1 and set it to active. Then it BOOTED! Using gParted alone did NOT work after 6 attempts. As far as I am concerned CloneZilla copied something gParted didn't. Something outside of the partitions. Thank you CloneZilla!
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I have source XP dual boot on 1.5 terrabyte WD hd. Using Gparted I copied partitions to a Western Digital 750GB WD7500AACS but for some reason partition 1 always hangs after loading screen. Safe mode won't go into windows either. Partition 2 boots up fine. Ran checkdisk /r and Western Digital Data Lifeguard tools long test to check disk. all passes on the 750.
Here is what confuses me.
When I copy to 500 GB Samsung HD501LJ partition 1 boots fine.
Tried clonezilla on the 750, same results.
Any body have any idea why my 500 boots up fine but not the WD 750?
Clonezilla partition copy did not work. However somehow I got it to perform a disk copy even to a smaller disk size, and during this it copied some hidden section b4 the partitions, MBR or something. After this I could not get it to boot at all, so I used gparted again, set the partition to active and now it boots partition 1 on the 750 HD!
Greg,
Clonezilla is not able to clone a partition to a smaller one. Therefore in your case, maybe the file system is not completely cloned. Not sure.
BTW, when you used GParted, did you resize or only made the partition bootable ?
Steven.
Somehow by setting some checkboxes I did get Clonezilla to proceed with a full local disk copy from a lager disk to a smaller one. Yeah there were errors, and I knew the partitions would not copy properly, but I had a hunch that XP on boot was checking some other hidden section of the disk or something outside of the partitions. So I attempted to boot it after the cloneazilla copy and it gave non-bootable device error. The same as when partition is not active. So after this I booted up gParted to get a view of what paritions where there. From what I recall it was one large partition. I deleted the large parition and used gParted to copy partition 1 and set it to active. Then it BOOTED! Using gParted alone did NOT work after 6 attempts. As far as I am concerned CloneZilla copied something gParted didn't. Something outside of the partitions. Thank you CloneZilla!
Greg,
That's amazing... and it's beyond my knowledge... No idea why it works. :)
Steven.