Vista clone will not boot.

[Guest]

Has anyone been able to boot from a cloned Window Vista boot disk?
What software did you use to clone the Winwos Vista disk?

Acronis True Image version 10 won't produce a bootable Vista clone.
it errors with WINLOAD.EXE is missing or corrupt.

 

[Albright]

Has anyone been able to boot from a cloned Window Vista boot disk?
What software did you use to clone the Winwos Vista disk?

Acronis True Image version 10 won't produce a bootable Vista clone.
it errors with WINLOAD.EXE is missing or corrupt.

get a Mac, it's much easier to clone a drive and have it boot. it takes
less than 4 clicks of the mouse. easy easy. plus there is no activation
to deal with. SWEET!

 

[Guest]

Well i just finished cloning disk with same software. after clonning and
first boot ( insert your os cd ( select ) repair and reboot Works just fine.

 

[Anna]

Well i just finished cloning disk with same software. after clonning and
first boot ( insert your os cd ( select ) repair and reboot Works just
fine.

loaderopp:
Are you saying that after you performed a disk-to-disk cloning operation
with ATI 10 it was necessary to run a Repair install of the OS before you
could get the clone to boot? The clone wouldn't boot immediately after the
disk cloning operation?
Anna

 

[Guest]

Yes for some reason it did not boot ( put my vista disk in ther cd ) booted
to it selected repair. took a couple seconds (rebooted ) and the way it went.
not sure why maybe anti copy protection with vista but i am running my cloned
disk without a hitch.

I cloned the drive because i bought a new hard drive with a larger cache and
faster speed, 7200 instead of 5400.

first time i used a clone software. worked very well

 

[AJR]

Anna - Acronis will produce a "bootable" disk.
Is the Vista installation you are cloning part of a dual boot setup or on
another partition other than C?
In both instances above Vista installs winload.exe on drive 0 (C) - it will
not be included with the clone.

 

[Guest]

DO YOU HAVE TO LOAD THE CD EVERY TIME YOU WANT TO BOOT THE CLONED VISTA DISK?

 

[Guest]

NO just the first boot after cloning the drive!

DO YOU HAVE TO LOAD THE CD EVERY TIME YOU WANT TO BOOT THE CLONED VISTA DISK?

 

[Guest]

ACRONIS TRUEIMAGE 10 WON'T PRODUCE A WINDOWS VISTA SYSTEM BOOT CLONE ON MY
SYSTEM. I JUST RETURN THE PRODUCT FOR A REFUND.
IT COULD BE RELATED TO THE 4 300GB S-ATA DISKS I AM RUNNING WITH.
THANKS FOR YOUR HELP.

 

[Guest]

To bad your have a hard time.. i hope you find something that will work for
you.