Cloning from 3.5 IDE to 2.5 Sata Issues

irishluck

irishluck

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I've got a harddrive I'm trying to clone from a 3.5 IDE 80gb drive to a new 2.5 500gb Sata drive.

The IDE is running windows xp and is an old computer which is why I am cloning it to a newer drive and making a copy so I dont lose some programs I cant get anymore.

I successfully cloned the IDE 3.5 80 gb to a duplicate IDE 3.5 80gb drive and it boots up just fine.

My issue now is when I clone the 3.5 to the 2.5 drive. Its not fully working.
I knwo when I get the 2.5 cloned drive booted I have to boot it in safe mode because of driver conflicts and such.

But when I go into safe mode, right after the drivers load, it blue screen for just a split second and restarts. It does this in a continuous loop.
I know for a fact that the 2.5" is good and its not bad.

Here is the error code I am getting. (had to record it to find it lol)
stop:0x0000007b
0xf78ae524
 
Questions

1. Are you using the sata hard drive in the same computer that the IDE hard drive came from?

2. What motherboard do you have?
 
Like said, is this going on the same computer. If so, make sure the SATA port is in IDE mode. If you cloned it in IDE mode, and the port it on is in SATA mode it could be trying to boot in SATA mode.
 
johnb35 said:
Questions

1. Are you using the sata hard drive in the same computer that the IDE hard drive came from?

2. What motherboard do you have?
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Oh no. Two different computers, 2 different hard drives.
the 2.5 is going into a laptop and the 3.5 is dekstop.

Laptop a year old and desktop maybe 5-6

Ive never heard of putting a sata drive into IDE mode.
What is that?
 
You can't clone a hard drive and put it in a different system. Different hardware and that's why it won't boot up. Windows most likely wouldn't have activated anyway. You will need to install a fresh operating system.
 
johnb35 said:
You can't clone a hard drive and put it in a different system. Different hardware and that's why it won't boot up. Windows most likely wouldn't have activated anyway. You will need to install a fresh operating system.
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Well that's why I was going to boot in safe mode. So I could install the proper drivers to the system to make it work.

I was told since It is a complete different system that you could do it but load in safe mode so it would just load basic drivers.

Is that not true?
 
The thing is you have an OEM license which will not work in the new desktop. Another issue is if you move from an AMD system to an Intel system and vice versa. You will need a fresh install with a new key.
 
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