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Hi folks,

I am trying to upgrade to a Hitachi 7K200 by way of cloning the 100GB Seagate that came with my T61p.

I read through the threads on the subject and decided to go with the following:
- Acronis 10 (build 4,942)
- SATA ultrabay adapter
- new drive in ultrabay
- run Acronis from the original drive

I did the clone disk function and tried it every which way (manual, auto, proportional partition sizing, manually setting them, etc.) and on the new drive I cannpt boot into Windows Vista.

It comes up with an error saying the installationis corrupt and it cannot run \Windows\system32\winload.exe

I can boot into the ThinkVantage partition, see the files in the other partitions (including the winload.exe), andeven run some programs (using the opera browser)

When I plug the drive as the second drive (after booting into the original drive), everything looks fine as well.

One thing I can think about that is non-standardis that I have a 3rd partition (other than the OS and the recovery partitions) I use for data that is mapped to the end of the drive. But still, when I boot into recovery,Ican see and access files in that partition as well.

Any ideas on what could be the issue, and how to get around it?

Thanks in advance.

Argun

The first time you booted up after cloning, did you boot up with both drives in the system? If so, that will cause problems.

Another thing is that Acronis is now a couple of versions into V. 11. Could it be that maybe v. 10 doesn't work with Vista so well?

I just did this procedure for the second time with Acronis v. 11 last night and it worked fine, however, I was going from Hitachi to Hitachi drives, although I doubt that has anything to do with it.

I did only have the new drive in the system when I first rebooted.

I checked with Acronis, and they have a holiday offer for an upgrade to 11 for $25. I might as well just go for it and give the new version a try.

Or you could just download the trial version and give that a try first.

Acronis 11 worked like a charm.
Meh! It was worth the $25 after all, and Acronis has saved my hide so many times that I don't mind giving them more of my money.