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Sportsman

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Got the new HDD working (SATA port wasn't enabled)

Cloned the iffy HDD onto the new HDD

Tried to boot from the newHD and everything seemed to be working.

Got opening windows and the little flag and then it switches off

Tried Start up repair with no joy

Any suggestions welcomed

 

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I have the Windows DVD

If I put it in the DVD drive and click on repair windows, will it delete all of the other programs on the drive?

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Sounds like you make have enabled ahci drivers (or not) on the new sata ports.

Check in bios for ahci or compatibility mode (IDE) on the hdd sata ports.

If it was disabled on the old install but enabled now then windiws will crash out at the point you suggest. Ahci needs drivers to boot correctly into windows....

That would be my first guess

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Hi Kiri

In BIOS I checked both SATA ports that are in use.

For both it states that

"this drive is controlled by the AHCI BIOS"

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I have never got windows to work using that ( whatever it does) it looks like its going to run then has a fit just before windows opens ,it sounds technical and has capital letters so i guess i must have it!

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LOL...you boys..

AHCI (Advance Host Controller Interface) is simply a newer more efficient way to data travel to supporting HDD drives. it was designed to help run SATA drives...however older OS like XP and vista didn't always play nice with the system and therefore sata controllers on motherboards had the option to run in compatibility mode or IDE mode.

that's brilliant up until you decide you want to use a spangly new fast drive in your system; clone the old drive across...activate AHCI and then try to boot...it doesn't work!

because the sata controllers drivers in windows are different for AHCI than for ide/compatibility....it causes the system to reboot at the point where the drivers try to access the drive within windows (just as the logo appears usually) up until then its actually built in drivers from the bios controlling the hdd.

in order to make the switch successfully you need to remove the old drivers first; either before you reboot, or from a "safe mode" boot...then windows will detect and install the new controllers on boot up. you can also force the issue with a registry hack.

 

so in this case I would suggest Sportsman that you swap the sata options in BIOS back to ide or compatibility mode and test.

 

Chesters; try changing to AHCI in bios and booting to safe mode...it will usually work...then head to device manager and remove the sata controller devices you will find under IDE/ATAPI controllers...then reboot...with luck it will boot into windows and install the AHCI controller drivers. job done..

if not just change it back in BIOS and reboot to get back to where you were.

do it at your own risk though :)

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Kiri

is the AHCI connected to the HDD or the SATA port?

 

The situation is she had the original fairly new 500gb HDD plugged into SATA port 0 This drive is the windows C drive and is the boot drive.

The drive is sometimes noisy and very slow so we were worried that it is beginning to fail.

We then acquired another fairly new 500gb HDD to replace it. This we connected to SATA port 1

According to bios both sata port 0 and sata port 1 are supported by AHCI

We attempted to clone drive c onto the second drive and the software said that it was successful

We then connected the replacement drive to sata port 0 and attempted to boot the computer from it unsuccesfully.

The software we used was "drive clone"

is there any point in trying to clone again and would it be a good idea to try different software?

The PC is an old DELL 490 workstation with Dual quadcore Intel xeon CPUs and 8GB RAM and is normally brilliant

She is running Win7 64

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If the old druve us booting in ahci mode then it's not the issue.

When you cloned was there an option to make the cloned drive "active"

Some cloning software doesn't auto recognise the OS boot partition and you have to manually choose in the clone options to make a drive bootable.

Try this one;

http://www.easeus.com/partition-manager/epm-free.html

Think the free one will clone.

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I don't remember anything about making a drive active. I just followed the prompts in the software.

I will have another look tomorrow.

What she really wants is a SSD but she doesn't want to do a clean install of Windows and then have to manually load all of the other programs she has got on her HDD so the cloning was a bit of a trial run

Thanks again

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