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Hello all,
I want to replace my 60gig with a 200gig. I bought a Hitachi 200gig, 7200 RPM drive, Anconis True Image 11, USB to SATA enclosure. Got just over $300 in this project. Cloning went fine, no errors. I installed the new drive, but it wont boot. Bios seems to see it OK, No HD password. System starts up with a black screen with a slow blinking curser. HD light comes on at 1st, but then goes out after POST.

Any advise please??

get a Vista disc and do a Boot Repair. The IDs from the old one doesn't match the new device so the boot manager just couldn't boot the drive.

tmfast wrote:Hello all,
I want to replace my 60gig with a 200gig. I bought a Hitachi 200gig, 7200 RPM drive, Anconis True Image 11, USB to SATA enclosure. Got just over $300 in this project. Cloning went fine, no errors. I installed the new drive, but it wont boot. Bios seems to see it OK, No HD password. System starts up with a black screen with a slow blinking curser. HD light comes on at 1st, but then goes out after POST.

Any advise please??

Are you using Windows Vista, or Windows XP? Often with Vista a drive will not boot unless it has been formatted using the Vista install disk. Might be part of their anti-piracy scheme or something. The blinking cursor is familiar and I fixed it with a format first, during the Vista install.

Try formatting the drive right off the install disk, and then lay down the image again, using the Acronis boot disk that I assume you have created.

Was the new target drive in the enclosure or T60?

I have done exactly what you have done with success. I had the new drive in a USB enclosure. I have not tried it the other way.

Brad

Thank you all for your replies.
I got it right. I put my original drive in the USB enclosure, the new drive in the drive slot. Booted from the Ancronis CD. This looks different from the windows clone app. Went through the manual clone. All OK. Kept the hidden partion down to the original 4.447 gig.

WOW, look at all that space!!!