OS Hard Drive upgrade

[L2CS]

I am trying to upgrade the OS hard drive on a computer from a 80GB SATA to a 250GB SATA. In theory all I should have to do is use a tool like HDClone and make a copy of it. Well for some reason that isnt working. I am getting frustrated with it. The PC boots to the 80GB fine, no issues there. Then when I put the 250GB in it sees it in the bios but wont but boot to it. The cloning process went successfully and I can access the hard drive in the windows recovery console from a XP disk. I am not getting any errors about windows... its just the computer isn't even getting that far on the 250GB hard drive.

I am stuck. I was hoping that you guys can help me out with trying to figure out a better way to upgrade the OS hard drive. Also maybe someone can point me to some software that I can boot to to make this possible and work.

[trapped]

Make sure the boot partition is marked active on the new drive. I was having a similar problem a couple of days ago. I was also having problems because Acronis was writing the new partition as a logical partition by default so I had to change it to primary (I think that is what it was).

[L2CS]

Make sure the boot partition is marked active on the new drive. I was having a similar problem a couple of days ago. I was also having problems because Acronis was writing the new partition as a logical partition by default so I had to change it to primary (I think that is what it was).

How do I go about making the partition active or primary after its already been created and since I cant boot to it directly. I guess I could go in from another computer and do it maybe... but any other ideas would help a lot :)

[trapped]

The easiest way I know if just to slave it to another pc and use disk management.

[MobileTechie]

Yes sounds like the new boot partition is not active. I'm not familiar with HDClone but with most imaging apps, like Acronis for instance, you get an option to mark the partition as active.

If you've not got that option then I'm pretty sure you can just boot to the original drive with both drives plugged in, look at the drives in disk management and mark the new disk active there and reboot. I seem to remember this working OK before.

[L2CS]

Yes sounds like the new boot partition is not active. I'm not familiar with HDClone but with most imaging apps, like Acronis for instance, you get an option to mark the partition as active.

If you've not got that option then I'm pretty sure you can just boot to the original drive with both drives plugged in, look at the drives in disk management and mark the new disk active there and reboot. I seem to remember this working OK before.

OK, thanks both of your for the help! Out of frustration a before I posted here I started to image it again... So once its done if I am still having the same issue I will make it active from another computer.

[L2CS]

Thanks for your help... that ended up being the issue :)