Is the computer you cloned it from able to access the data on the computer? If so, then it could be the dell does not recognize the 160GB hard drive correctly. I have seen this many times on Legacy machines that do not have LBA32 or higher drive mapping.
Also, were there any bad sectors on the drive during the clone? If so, this is probably why the drive is BSOD'ing. To fix it you should use an utility that will retry bad sectors until it gets it or 10 times has passed. If it does not get it should write something in the sector like "____Unrecoverable___" or something. Good luck, Tim Lider Sr. Data Recovery Specialist Advanced Data Solutions, LLC http://www.adv-data.com > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] [mailto:hardware- > [email protected]] On Behalf Of Thane Sherrington > Sent: Wednesday, January 13, 2010 10:03 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: [H] Odd problem with hard drive > > I have a Dell Inspiron 6400 with a dying hard drive. It's a 100GB > Seagate. I removed the drive and put it in our machine to clone it > using Acronis. It cloned successfully to a Western Digital 160GB > drive, and when I rebooted (still on our computer, both drives showed > up normally, the new drive passed SMART tests, and they appeared to > have the same files on each.) I installed the drive in the Dell and > it BSOD'd on boot. When I rebooted it and went into setup, it said > the drive was a 98.5GB drive. I put the drive back in our machine, > and although the BIOS said it was a WD1600BEXT, it said the size was > 98.5GB. I assumed the drive was bad, so I redid the copy on another > drive, and exactly the same thing happened. I'm assuming that the > Dell is somehow screwing up the drive, but I've never seen anything > like that before - has anyone else, and do you know of a fix? > > T > >
