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Thread ID: 126784	2012-09-18 01:27:00	Data from 40GB to 160GB HD...How?	Poppa John (284)	Press F1

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1301850	2012-09-23 09:15:00	Best to have the drive in the laptop. Suggestion. Remove the working HDD, put it to one side in a safe place. Then install the Cloned one, run the MBR repair on that. If it works Great, if not nothing is lost as the original drive is still safe. Having both drives connected and trying to fix one its possible to accentually damage the original - and we dont want that. :)	wainuitech (129)
1301851	2012-09-23 09:35:00	Best to have the drive in the laptop . Suggestion . Remove the working HDD, put it to one side in a safe place . Then install the Cloned one, run the MBR repair on that . If it works Great, if not nothing is lost as the original drive is still safe . Having both drives connected and trying to fix one its possible to accentually damage the original - and we dont want that . :) With the 160GB in the laptop, I switch on, go thro the password & . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Nothing . I get that MBR error, press any key code . Nothinghappens . The 40GB is working ok back i the laptop . If I cannot start the 160, how can I do the MBR repair? PJ	Poppa John (284)
1301852	2012-09-23 10:26:00	With the 160GB in the Laptop, you need to boot from the XP CD, then enter the recovery console, and type in the command. Re- read the link #18 and thats what mentioned in the first instruction. In instruction #4 when it says "type in the Administrator password", generally you just hit enter, unless the hidden Admin account has a password, and it will go to step #5 and show as per the picture.	wainuitech (129)
1301853	2012-09-23 22:51:00	160GB is in the laptop. XP disc in drive. Switch on...get white flashing bar top left of screen Pause Get Toshiba screen Pause Get ...press any key to continue Get computer password screen Enter this. Get...MBR Error, Press any key to boot from floppy... Press enter Get MBR Error 2, press any key to boot from floppy... PJ	Poppa John (284)
1301854	2012-09-23 22:54:00	Sounds like it not booting from the XP CD.	wainuitech (129)
1301855	2012-09-23 23:06:00	Sounds like it not booting from the XP CD. So Whats next? PJ	Poppa John (284)
1301856	2012-09-23 23:18:00	This occasionally happens when cloing. Often its caused by recovery partitions & sometimes lappies have a partition manager for the recovery partition , that could be stuffing up the clone. Some recovery partitions also make Win the 2nd partition, that can often screw things up & fixmbr wont help if thats the issue. I suggest try yet another cloning software , sometimes you get 1 that will just work when 2 others have failed.	1101 (13337)
1301857	2012-09-23 23:48:00	Make sure the first boot device in the BIOS is the CD Drive. These days I do it another way, takes slightly more time, but hardly ever fails. You need a USB drive capable of taking the Whole XP OS/ Programs/ Data capacity. What I do is boot from the Live CD ( post #18)- Create an image to the USB drive or network location. (disk to image - select normal compression) Then put in the New Larger drive, boot again from the Live CD, and image it back. (image to Disk).	wainuitech (129)
1301858	2012-09-24 00:41:00	This occasionally happens when cloing. Often its caused by recovery partitions & sometimes lappies have a partition manager for the recovery partition , that could be stuffing up the clone. Some recovery partitions also make Win the 2nd partition, that can often screw things up & fixmbr wont help if thats the issue. I suggest try yet another cloning software , sometimes you get 1 that will just work when 2 others have failed. OK all noted. PJ	Poppa John (284)
1301859	2012-09-24 00:43:00	Make sure the first boot device in the BIOS is the CD Drive. These days I do it another way, takes slightly more time, but hardly ever fails. You need a USB drive capable of taking the Whole XP OS/ Programs/ Data capacity. What I do is boot from the Live CD ( post #18)- Create an image to the USB drive or network location. (disk to image - select normal compression) Then put in the New Larger drive, boot again from the Live CD, and image it back. (image to Disk). Is the "Live CD" the MS XP Home disc? PJ	Poppa John (284)
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