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Message: [QUOTE="Paul, post: 14223107"] So you know about fixboot and fixmbr ? None of this makes any sense. As the process of successfully cloning, would require copying the partition table from the old MBR. And if you copy those 64 bytes from sector 0 of the old drive, you would be just as likely to copy the rest of the MBR sector as well (a 512 byte copy). So I don't really see fixmbr as being necessary. It probably has a good MBR. And fixboot, adds boot code to the file system header of C:. Imagine the C: partition has ~64 sectors up front, followed by the file system proper. In there somewhere, is more boot code. The only way to lose that boot code, is to format a partition. I'm not aware of any programs doing a clone, by selectively ignoring the file system header. It should get copied too. So none of those kind of repairs make any sense, immediately after a clone. It would take "careful meddling", to need those two utilities in recovery console. ******* You should give us some useful symptoms such as: "I have a black screen, with a blinking underline cursor in the upper left hand corner" There would be several common screen appearances on boot failures. And the black screen with the blinking cursor in the upper right is one of them. Paul [/QUOTE]