Earlier today I tried to run Clonezilla through a CD during boot up to copy my Windows 7 Professional 64 Bit hard drive from a 250 GB drive to a 1.5 TB one. Everything seemed to be going well, so I left it alone for a little while. When I returned some sort of error had occurred (I wish I had had the piece of mind to make note of what it said), and effectively the whole process froze.
When I tried to reboot, neither the original drive or new drive would boot. My computer would get past the motherboard's splash screen and the screen detailing the drivers for the ports loading, but it would never load off either hard drive. It essentially stops there as if there is no hard drive connected. Neither were connected simultaneously, so it wasn't a matter of the two drives being confused by each other.
I was wondering if there was any way to restore the functionality of the original drive so that whenever I turn on my computer it'll boot to that drive. After all these hours and so much stress, I'd really just be happy to be able to boot up my computer again.
I do know that at least on the original drive the files are at least ostensibly intact. I used an Ubuntu live CD to check on the status of the drive and found that everything seemed to be in order. Therefore I can't help but wonder if it's the master boot record. Any advice?
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Sorry for the last response. I was traveling.
As for your case, sorry to see this. Normally Clonezilla live won't touch the source disk when cloning or imaging, unless there are some unknown bugs…
Since you mentioned you checked the file system with Ubuntu live CD and found they are good, maybe the problem is only on the boot loader? If so, you can try to use Windows 7 CD to do some rescues…
Good luck.
Steven.
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Yep, if everything looks good on the file structures with Ubuntu. Try starting your computer with the windows 7 installation cd. When the prompt becomes available, choose recovery.
Once in the recovery console first do chkdsk /r /f
Then run fixmbr and see if that solves your problem.
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Earlier today I tried to run Clonezilla through a CD during boot up to copy my Windows 7 Professional 64 Bit hard drive from a 250 GB drive to a 1.5 TB one. Everything seemed to be going well, so I left it alone for a little while. When I returned some sort of error had occurred (I wish I had had the piece of mind to make note of what it said), and effectively the whole process froze.
When I tried to reboot, neither the original drive or new drive would boot. My computer would get past the motherboard's splash screen and the screen detailing the drivers for the ports loading, but it would never load off either hard drive. It essentially stops there as if there is no hard drive connected. Neither were connected simultaneously, so it wasn't a matter of the two drives being confused by each other.
I was wondering if there was any way to restore the functionality of the original drive so that whenever I turn on my computer it'll boot to that drive. After all these hours and so much stress, I'd really just be happy to be able to boot up my computer again.
I do know that at least on the original drive the files are at least ostensibly intact. I used an Ubuntu live CD to check on the status of the drive and found that everything seemed to be in order. Therefore I can't help but wonder if it's the master boot record. Any advice?
Sorry for the last response. I was traveling.
As for your case, sorry to see this. Normally Clonezilla live won't touch the source disk when cloning or imaging, unless there are some unknown bugs…
Since you mentioned you checked the file system with Ubuntu live CD and found they are good, maybe the problem is only on the boot loader? If so, you can try to use Windows 7 CD to do some rescues…
Good luck.
Steven.
Yep, if everything looks good on the file structures with Ubuntu. Try starting your computer with the windows 7 installation cd. When the prompt becomes available, choose recovery.
Once in the recovery console first do chkdsk /r /f
Then run fixmbr and see if that solves your problem.