katjaxmusic
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I have an acer 9920G, 2x250GB HDD, intel centrino core2 duo 2.4GHz T7700 processor, NVidia GeForce 8660M, 4GB DDR2, came with vista home premuim (with a hidden EISA partition, whish is still there but i cant access it since i put xp on it!)
my acer came with vista, and after a very long 2 weeks of searching and reinstalling, i finally got xp and all drivers working perfectly (no actual xp drivers available).
so when it was all working perfectly, i downloaded the trial version of acronis true image home 11, and what i thought i was doing was cloning my hard drive to an external 3.5" hard drive as a back up...But...ACRONIS MOVED IT!
the option i chose in acronis was "clone disk"
when i rebooted my laptop, there was no operating sytem.
so...
ive went out and bought a usb sata 2.5" external drive, and had a look at the drive on another laptop to see what the state of the drive is.
Acronis left a big unpartitioned space.
so, i thought i would have a go at manually copying the files over from the usb 3.5" to the new usb 2.5" sata drive, but "machinekey" in "Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\Microsoft\Crypto\RSA\MachineKeys" wouldnt copy over... everything else has copied fine.
(i copied the partitions also to the same size too)
i then put the 2.5" manually copied drive into my acer, and i get to the welcome screen and i can still move the mouse, but it stays like it until you decide to hard shut it.
should i clone the 3.5" to the 2.5" again using acronis true image?
will acronis actually even do that???
will clone an external drive to an external drive?
and will it wipe the 3.5" 1st backup?
safe mode even gets stuck in the same place.
(and every type of startup)
could anbody please help me, ive been doing this for 3 days now...PLEASE???
i dont mind doing a fresh install of windows, but installing the drivers is hard work. is there a way to either get my blue screen working, or a fresh install replacing the drivers and stuff. im not woried about the programs, i can reinstall them.
this not because i cant be bothered to do another install, but because im not sure that i can get it working again because i cant remeber in what order i installed the drivers, and which i forced where and all that long stuff!
please please help me xxx
my acer came with vista, and after a very long 2 weeks of searching and reinstalling, i finally got xp and all drivers working perfectly (no actual xp drivers available).
so when it was all working perfectly, i downloaded the trial version of acronis true image home 11, and what i thought i was doing was cloning my hard drive to an external 3.5" hard drive as a back up...But...ACRONIS MOVED IT!
the option i chose in acronis was "clone disk"
when i rebooted my laptop, there was no operating sytem.
so...
ive went out and bought a usb sata 2.5" external drive, and had a look at the drive on another laptop to see what the state of the drive is.
Acronis left a big unpartitioned space.
so, i thought i would have a go at manually copying the files over from the usb 3.5" to the new usb 2.5" sata drive, but "machinekey" in "Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\Microsoft\Crypto\RSA\MachineKeys" wouldnt copy over... everything else has copied fine.
(i copied the partitions also to the same size too)
i then put the 2.5" manually copied drive into my acer, and i get to the welcome screen and i can still move the mouse, but it stays like it until you decide to hard shut it.
should i clone the 3.5" to the 2.5" again using acronis true image?
will acronis actually even do that???
will clone an external drive to an external drive?
and will it wipe the 3.5" 1st backup?
safe mode even gets stuck in the same place.
(and every type of startup)
could anbody please help me, ive been doing this for 3 days now...PLEASE???
i dont mind doing a fresh install of windows, but installing the drivers is hard work. is there a way to either get my blue screen working, or a fresh install replacing the drivers and stuff. im not woried about the programs, i can reinstall them.
this not because i cant be bothered to do another install, but because im not sure that i can get it working again because i cant remeber in what order i installed the drivers, and which i forced where and all that long stuff!
please please help me xxx