Tip for Acronis and Cloning to a 750GB Hard Drive
Posted: Wed Oct 19, 2011 6:21 pm
I just bought a Hitachi 7k750 hard drive to upgrade the old 7k500 in my T500 running Windows 7 Ultimate 64. I used the Acronis True Image Home 2012 boot CD that I burned to clone the 500GB to the new 750GB. The 750GB hard drive had the Advanced Format formatting. This post is a tip for those who may wish to clone to larger hard drives and won't have to beat their heads against the wall trying to resolve the issue that will later appear.
The clone process went well with no issues. The new drive with Windows 7 Ultimate 64 booted up fine. All was well until I installed a program a few days later. The install would hang at 100% CPU usage and I would have to hard reset the T500. I finally uninstalled it thinking it was a badly coded app. A few days later, I checked out Windows Update and it just suddenly said it could not update because the update service was not running. After verifying that indeed it was running, I stopped and started the Update service, the BITS service and the crypto service as well as re-registering the associated DLLs.
I started to get a little worried and annoyed because all the solutions that I found online for the issue did not resolve it. Specifically, the error message was:
"Windows update cannot currently check for updates because the service is not running. You may need to restart your computer."
Also it randomly gave out error code 8024A000. I was about to clean install Windows when I found this page at Microsoft:
http://social.technet.microsoft.com/For ... af1c529336
In it, a user was experiencing the same issue but was able to resolve it by installing Intel Rapid Storage Technology Driver which can be found here:
http://downloadcenter.intel.com/Detail_ ... pe=Drivers
After installing and rebooting, Windows installed the drivers, but indicated that it failed. I freaked out, and immediately checked out Windows Update expecting to see the same error, but it ran beautifully. At last I was able to update. My issue was fixed.
Amazing how the Advanced Format can wreak havok with the operating system without the drivers. Maybe you the reader already knew of this, but I didn't. Its quite possible someone else doesn't either. I hope this helps that person with the same predicament.
The clone process went well with no issues. The new drive with Windows 7 Ultimate 64 booted up fine. All was well until I installed a program a few days later. The install would hang at 100% CPU usage and I would have to hard reset the T500. I finally uninstalled it thinking it was a badly coded app. A few days later, I checked out Windows Update and it just suddenly said it could not update because the update service was not running. After verifying that indeed it was running, I stopped and started the Update service, the BITS service and the crypto service as well as re-registering the associated DLLs.
I started to get a little worried and annoyed because all the solutions that I found online for the issue did not resolve it. Specifically, the error message was:
"Windows update cannot currently check for updates because the service is not running. You may need to restart your computer."
Also it randomly gave out error code 8024A000. I was about to clean install Windows when I found this page at Microsoft:
http://social.technet.microsoft.com/For ... af1c529336
In it, a user was experiencing the same issue but was able to resolve it by installing Intel Rapid Storage Technology Driver which can be found here:
http://downloadcenter.intel.com/Detail_ ... pe=Drivers
After installing and rebooting, Windows installed the drivers, but indicated that it failed. I freaked out, and immediately checked out Windows Update expecting to see the same error, but it ran beautifully. At last I was able to update. My issue was fixed.
Amazing how the Advanced Format can wreak havok with the operating system without the drivers. Maybe you the reader already knew of this, but I didn't. Its quite possible someone else doesn't either. I hope this helps that person with the same predicament.