Hi, all. I have an Acer 5515 with Vista SP2. I dropped my laptop while running, so the HDD kept throwing up a failure warning on boot, but still ran. I used Clonezilla to move from a 160gb drive to a 250gb drive. I now have the 250gb drive in the computer, but when I go to boot, the BIOS screen runs, then comes the black screen with the small bar with the green lines running through it and (C) Microsoft Corporation. It's been sitting like that for 20 minutes. Apparently I did something wrong. Any ideas? I'm about to say screw Vista and just put ubuntu on this thing… hehe.
If you need any more information, I will do what I can to help.
Thanks,
-Bob
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Hi, all. I have an Acer 5515 with Vista SP2. I dropped my laptop while running, so the HDD kept throwing up a failure warning on boot, but still ran. I used Clonezilla to move from a 160gb drive to a 250gb drive. I now have the 250gb drive in the computer, but when I go to boot, the BIOS screen runs, then comes the black screen with the small bar with the green lines running through it and (C) Microsoft Corporation. It's been sitting like that for 20 minutes. Apparently I did something wrong. Any ideas? I'm about to say screw Vista and just put ubuntu on this thing… hehe.
If you need any more information, I will do what I can to help.
Thanks,
-Bob
Maybe you can refer to this:
http://drbl.sourceforge.net/faq/fine-print.php?path=./2_System/23_Missing_OS.faq#23_Missing_OS.faq
Steven.