I have been attempting to upgrade to a new hard drive. Old drive is sata, new drive is sata also. I used Norton Ghost to clone my C drive (windows) to a new drive (F) I think I am having trouble getting the drive to boot, however I did manage to get my system to display two different boot options. One says "Windows 7", one says "Windows 7 (recovered.)" Depending on which I select the new F drive will have the Windows logo on the drive in COMPUTER(explorer)(picture attached). I thought maybe that meant that Windows is booting from there. I do not think it does after further investigating.
If I right click on any file on my desktop it still displays it on the C drive. This would have to mean it is booting from the C drive correct? Wouldn't the boot drive's desktop load?
Furthermore, if I unplug my original drive with Windows on it and attempt to boot up. I get an error state "BootMGR is missing" This leads me to believe that the 2 options I get during booting are not actually 2 different installations. Meaning, neither of those are my new cloned hard drive F
I have messed with CMOS adavanced options and change the order of the Hard Disk drives, so I do not think the problem is within that.
I have looked for a boot.ini file, because I read I could determine which drive is booting from the contents of that file, however I could not find it.
I have even copied the System Reserved drive, in hopes of be able to boot from my new hard drive F.
I have also set the new drive F to active. (picture attached)
tl;dr: How can I determine which drive is booting?
who makes the hard drives as can use the hd manufacturer's disk utiliy program to clone 1 hd to another whether ide to ide, sata to sata or ide to sata as that is what i do on customers' computers when doing a reload?
Originally posted by ddp: who makes the hard drives as can use the hd manufacturer's disk utiliy program to clone 1 hd to another whether ide to ide, sata to sata or ide to sata as that is what i do on customers' computers when doing a reload?
