Replacing System Disk.

[Guest]

I use Vista Home Premium and I want to replace my current 40Gb C-drive with a
bigger one. I used Nero image Tool to Backup the C-drive partition to DVDs
and then Restored to the 100 Gb D-partition on a 200Gb drive. I got a message
during restore saying something about the MBR being on a different sector and
it might not work. It was correct, it doesn't boot. I have run Startup Repair
but it still seems unable to find a drive to boot from. Can anyone offer any
enlightenment about fixing the current system or about a better way to
replace the System drive?

 

[Daniel]

Hi

I used Casper 4 to replace hard drives, but in my case the back up was on a
USB drive.

It worked 100%.

cheers

Daniel

 

[Andrew McLaren]

I use Vista Home Premium and I want to replace my current 40Gb C-drive with
a
bigger one. I used Nero image Tool to Backup the C-drive partition to DVDs
and then Restored to the 100 Gb D-partition on a 200Gb drive. I got a
message
during restore saying something about the MBR being on a different sector
and
it might not work. It was correct, it doesn't boot. I have run Startup
Repair
but it still seems unable to find a drive to boot from. Can anyone offer
any
enlightenment about fixing the current system or about a better way to
replace the System drive?

Hi Dave

I dunno if this will fix your problem, but I have to do *something*, to try
help a fellow Scotsman

When you go to the recovery options, open a command prompt and run these
commands:

C:\>BootRec /FixBoot
C:\>BootRec /FixMBR

You might need to run them a couple of times. I've found that this can make
a system bootable again, after the menu option "repair startup" didn't
succeed. Might be worth a shot.

As to the best method - well, when replacing a system disk, I actually just
do a full reinstallation of Windows. That lacks subtlety and sophistication,
I know; but ... it always works.

Alternatively, many people have had good results using the Acronis products,
such as Acronis Migrate Easy.
http://www.acronis.com/homecomputing/products/migrateeasy/
Acronis seems to be emerging as the "industry standard" for popular disk
tools. I've used Nero Burning ROM for many years for making CD-ROMs and
DVDs, and Nero is very good for that. But frankly, I don't really trust Nero
for any of the other functionality which they purport to provide. It just
doesn't seem to ever match the quality of their core competency (burning
DVDs). Nero 7 wasn't really an improvement over Nero 6; and Nero 8 doesn't
sound, by all reports, to be any significant improvement over Nero 7 (or
6!). They've tacked on a lot of new "media player" stuff, but the core tools
are much the same. Anyway I like Nero, in its place. But as a disk imaging
tool ... no. Try Acronis instead.

Other folk may have additional ideas for you; hope this helps a bit.

Cheers,