hp dv9000 clone vista to new HDD

i decided to upgrade from my old 80gb to a new 320gb internal drive, and i would just put the old drive into the 2nd HDD bay. i got the caddy, got it all installed. i need the new drive in the 1st bay because its 7200 and the 80gb is 5400.

i first tried to use the recovery discs that i made from the HP recovery partition. it kept giving me an error "this pc is not supported by these system discs".

then i tried macrium reflect to clone the HDD and restore on the new one. the cloning was successful, and i can boot with the new HDD up until the vista loading animation, then right before the glowing orb it gives me a BSOD and restarts and tells me to do the startup repair, after letting it do that for 3 times, it finally says, windows cant fix this.

do i need to do something with the MBR, or the drive letter or something else?

 

I would start by recloning with Acronis True Image.
I have never heard of Macrium reflect.
You can download a trial version of true image from Acronis's website.

If both harddrive share the same drive letter, tehr system may be getting confused, resulting in the BSOD.
Try changing the 80gb disc to a drive letter like Q or something far down the list on the alphabet, so that it does not conflict with the main drive, which is most likely labeled as "local disc C"

K-TRON

 

The trial version of Casper is another option. Casper has worked for me on occasions where Acronis has failed. The trial version won't resize the partition, but you can do that afterwards.

John

 

thanks! acronis worked, somewhat. i got it to boot up but now i have to choose between 2 operating systems before startup, both say windows vista (recovered). i think ill try to play with the MBR and boot settings now lol

 

you can use msconfig to shut that screen off if you like, or change the boot settings, so it only boots to one of the vista installations.
To do this go to msconfig, and than go to the "BOOT.INI" tab,
In the small window, you can highlight which installation you want to use, and you can set that higher priority or lower priority, or you can clear all boot paths, allowing the system to boot to the latest installation.

K-TRON