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Message: [QUOTE="OldGuy, post: 14223072"] WinXP Pro on laptop. Laptop has HDD that is starting to fail per Acronis Drive Monitor. Got a new WD Blue SATA 500G. Tried to clone but it failed and totally died. After that it did not show up in any clone software and it clicked. Took back for refund. Bought a WD Black SATA 500G HDD. Using a VANTEC SATA 6G USB3 adapter to do clone. Ran AOMEI to clone. Took 8 hours. Installed WD Black 500G. Laptop starts up but goes no place. BIOS correctly shows the new HDD as the boot drive (top of list). Before with the bad drive (not the failing drive) I got a message that it could not find the OS. Now nothing. No messages at all. I turn on BIOS Boot Diagnostic and it sees the HDD then the mouse but no error messages. The disk drive LED does not flash. I exchanged the drives: failing back in and new WD Black to Vantec. I plugged the cloned drive via VANTEC (USB plug into the laptop)and the laptop bing-bonged and there it was in Windows Explorer. Looks like it is a good copy at least for what I can see. Folders and files seem present. So maybe there is a boot sector problem with the bad drive that when cloned did not give a good boot to the cloned drive??? I used AOMEI since it was the easiest for me to figure out how to clone. Anyway, suggestions please. (Back-story: I successfully installed the WD Blue 500G drive from the failing drive but after three months the WD Blue just dropped dead. That was not a clone but a total rebuild. Id o not want to do that again! Days of work.) [/QUOTE]

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