Windows 7 not loading user after cloning hard drive with True Image


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Hi everyone,

I just bought a new hard drive identical in size (500 gb) to my current on. I booted to True Image Rescue Disk and made an exact clone. Then I took out my old one, and tried booting with the new hdd. It booted fine into Windows 7, but a problem showed up after loading personal user desktop.

There's no aero, any desktop icons and task bar. It's a blue background (the color of classic appearance), and that's all. You can't do much. I tried ctrl-alt-delete, it shows up the option screen, but when I clicked task manager nothing shows up.

Apparently there was no such problem when I booted into my Vista partition. Also I reinstalled the other hdd, and it booted in Windows 7 fine.

Any help would be helpful.

Edit: I wonder if this is a security feature?

Thanks,

s3n4te

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- Did you password protect your User Account?

- Any encryption?

- Can you boot into Safe Mode? [Press F8 just before Windows boot]. Try creating another User Account

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- Did you password protect your User Account?

- Any encryption?

- Can you boot into Safe Mode? [Press F8 just before Windows boot]. Try creating another User Account

No password or any sort of protection were put on the account.

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My guess it the installation no longer thinks it is the C: drive (or what ever was your original boot drive) Try going into the Command Prompt to see what drive it is using and then go to regedit and go to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\System\MountedDevices and find the key \DOSDevices\?: the ? being the letter your install says it is boot to and change it to C:. (check to see if any other device is C: first and change it to something else that is not being used.

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This won't help you but last week I successfully cloned my drive with a Windows 7 installation to a larger drive with TrueImage. I wonder if files were corrupted during the copy. Which version of TrueImage did you use? If you didn't erase your old drive consider cloning it again?

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