I would kind of hope the backup would be on the entire drive including programs, etc. so it should restore to pretty close to original…otherwise a full backup isn’t very helpful J.
From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of James Button Sent: Thursday, August 28, 2014 8:20 AM To: [email protected] Subject: RE: [NTSysADM] move hdd with windows 7 on it The situation is probably that the setup on the original drive is for the original system’s motherboard and interfaces etc – They will have been selected according to the hardware found when the initial OS install was done. When you copy that to a new drive nothing in the setup changes so that ‘clone’ drive should work in the old system (as well as the original drive did) A backup restore will copy whatever the backup is – and I presume the backup you are considering is of the original PC setup – from either drive. If so, then it will just put the drive back to how it was - not having the programs (files drivers parameters whatever) appropriate to the new hardware. Maybe a repair would work on the new drive in the new system If it fails I am presuming you can go back to the original clone procedure There are software providers who’s software includes a facility to change (update) a clone to include modules from a MS Windows install DVD/CD that match the current hardware – maybe about 40.00 JimB From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Dave Lum Sent: Thursday, August 28, 2014 4:06 PM To: [email protected] Subject: RE: [NTSysADM] move hdd with windows 7 on it Can a backup-restore accomplish effectively the same thing? From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of John C Owen Sent: Wednesday, August 27, 2014 8:08 PM To: [email protected] Subject: RE: [NTSysADM] move hdd with windows 7 on it I remember XP having a different version for more than one CPU From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Daniel Chenault Sent: Wednesday, August 27, 2014 10:36 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [NTSysADM] move hdd with windows 7 on it It's a little more complex than that. Basically the HAL is wrong. You *might* be able to fix it by booting in safe mode and (assuming it boots at all) removing ALL device drivers, then reboot and have it prompt you. You'll need the appropriate build of Windows on a CD/DVD for that. Usually when going between hardware platforms it takes a reinstall to do it right. And all this science I don't understand It's just my job five days a week Elton John "Rocket Man" On Aug 27, 2014, at 19:04, "Jimmy Tran" <[email protected]> wrote: Hi all, 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. I obviously want to prevent from reinstalling the OS. Is the problem because I’m going from a dual to a quad core CPU? Does anyone know? Thanks, Jimmy
