+1 Nothing to do with HAL - and 99% to do with not having the correct mass storage controller drivers, or there is an out-of-box driver, but the start-up type is set to disabled rather than boot time.
Cheers Ken -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Ben Scott Sent: Thursday, 28 August 2014 1:09 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [NTSysADM] move hdd with windows 7 on it On Wed, Aug 27, 2014 at 10:01 PM, Jimmy Tran <[email protected]> wrote: > Got a dual core Pentium pc with windows 7 home on it. I cloned the > hdd and installed it in a quad core i5 pc. It fails to boot and give > the error “boot selection failed because required device is inaccessible” > 0xc000000e. Dollars to donuts, the disk controller in the new PC doesn't use the same driver(s) as the one in the old PC. So when it goes to boot, it loads the wrong drive, and then pukes once it tries to switch to protected mode I/O. If that's the problem, there are two categories of solution. One is to first prep the old system by installing the driver(s) for the disk controller in the new system, manually setting said drivers to boot start, and *then* doing the clone. The second is to use a disk cloning tool that will compensate for unlike hardware. (Ghost isn't one.) (I presume such tools do something to install/activate drivers in the restored image, basically automating the above, but I don't know for sure.) -- Ben
