sandan Posted February 19, 2007 Report Share Posted February 19, 2007 I originally installed Vista through XP onto a different physical drive. I set it up as a Dual boot. I got a new drive and cloned Vista onto it using True Image 10. Everything shows up on the new drive but I can't boot into Vista. The Boot option screen comes up and when I highlight Vista it seems to try to initialize then it reboots. Could this have something to do with at my original instal a boot record on the XP drive doesn't recognize the new drive. Any suggestions on how to fix this. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
-pops- Posted February 19, 2007 Report Share Posted February 19, 2007 When you cloned the drive, did you instruct Acronis to make the clone bootable? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sandan Posted February 19, 2007 Author Report Share Posted February 19, 2007 When you cloned the drive, did you instruct Acronis to make the clone bootable?I'm pretty sure I did. I really don't remember an option for that. I will have to recheck Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sandan Posted February 19, 2007 Author Report Share Posted February 19, 2007 I checked and Acronis doesn't have an option to make the disk bootable. But when I installed the new drive I formatted and partitioned. I made the Vista partition active at that time. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
-pops- Posted February 19, 2007 Report Share Posted February 19, 2007 Rather than cloning your new operating system on to the new drive, why not do a fresh install? This would ensure no interference from remnants of XP data and old files on your new setup. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sandan Posted February 20, 2007 Author Report Share Posted February 20, 2007 Yep...The fresh install is my next step. My current Vista is running great and given it is not that old it isn't bloated...So, I thought I would try the clone thing and see if it works. I'm disappointed that it didn't or that it is more complicated than fresh install. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scarecrow Man Posted February 20, 2007 Report Share Posted February 20, 2007 Vista uses a different type of boot loader than XP does. There is quite a few guides on google, and I found this one to be quite informative.http://www.apcstart.com/4054/how_to_dual_boot_xp_and_vista Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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