Windows feeezes !

[Sydney]

Story: My friend wanted to install a new hard disk because the previous one
has a permanent error indicated by S.M.A.R.T. message.

1 He installed the new HD in an USB external disk fixture, partitionned with
GParted,
2 he installed the new disk as secondary master and ran a ghost program to
clone the original disk onto the new. At a certain point in time during the
ghost session he named the new boot partition as I:/
3 Then he installed the new as primary master et the old as secondary master
and started the machine to boot. Result was OK. He transfered data from the
old to the new disk .
4 When removing the old from the machine leaving the new alone, the system
booted then stuck after the Windows XP banner leaving a blue screen (not
BSOD) with the MS logo.
5 Start in no failure mode won't change anything

Can anyone figure out what could be wrong ?

 

[Paul]

Story: My friend wanted to install a new hard disk because the previous
one has a permanent error indicated by S.M.A.R.T. message.

1 He installed the new HD in an USB external disk fixture, partitionned
with GParted,
2 he installed the new disk as secondary master and ran a ghost program
to clone the original disk onto the new. At a certain point in time
during the ghost session he named the new boot partition as I:/
3 Then he installed the new as primary master et the old as secondary
master and started the machine to boot. Result was OK. He transfered
data from the old to the new disk .
4 When removing the old from the machine leaving the new alone, the
system booted then stuck after the Windows XP banner leaving a blue
screen (not BSOD) with the MS logo.
5 Start in no failure mode won't change anything

Can anyone figure out what could be wrong ?

One slight mistake.

The first time you boot a cloned disk, make sure the old disk is
*disconnected*. Don't boot a clone, the very first time, in the
presence of the old disk. Once you've booted the clone all by itself,
at least once, then it is safe to re-connect the old disk.

Don't ask me what "attachment" the new disk has for the old
disk. The OS is probably using at least one resource from the
old disk, as well as reading the majority of files from the
new disk. And that is why it fails to boot when the old is now
disconnected.

If you boot the clone, for the first time, all by itself,
it won't develop an "unhealthy attachment" for the old drive.

Perhaps, if you can find out what the OS does in that case, it
would be possible to fix it, without cloning all over again.
The last time that happened to me, I just cloned all over again,
as that was faster than doing the research to figure out what
had happened.

An example here, of the same advice.

http://forum.acronis.com/forum/7869

"5. (Important) Reboot the first time with only the clone attached."

HTH,
Paul

 

[Sydney]

One slight mistake.

The first time you boot a cloned disk, make sure the old disk is
*disconnected*. Don't boot a clone, the very first time, in the
presence of the old disk. Once you've booted the clone all by itself,
at least once, then it is safe to re-connect the old disk.

Don't ask me what "attachment" the new disk has for the old
disk. The OS is probably using at least one resource from the
old disk, as well as reading the majority of files from the
new disk. And that is why it fails to boot when the old is now
disconnected.

If you boot the clone, for the first time, all by itself,
it won't develop an "unhealthy attachment" for the old drive.

Perhaps, if you can find out what the OS does in that case, it
would be possible to fix it, without cloning all over again.
The last time that happened to me, I just cloned all over again,
as that was faster than doing the research to figure out what
had happened.

An example here, of the same advice.

http://forum.acronis.com/forum/7869

"5. (Important) Reboot the first time with only the clone attached."

HTH,
Paul

On a different system, I have done again a clone to a different drive;
Then I booted the clone alone in the very first time and it reproduced the
same result as the one my friend got.
I am puzzled !
This clone contains a virtpart.dat (26 MB) file created at the time of the
boot.