spy beef Posted June 13, 2009 Share Posted June 13, 2009 (edited) 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 Edited June 13, 2009 by s3n4te Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Patri0t Posted June 13, 2009 Share Posted June 13, 2009 - 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 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spy beef Posted June 13, 2009 Author Share Posted June 13, 2009 - 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Patri0t Posted June 13, 2009 Share Posted June 13, 2009 Try logging in to Safe Mode and create a new Account. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pbcopter Posted June 13, 2009 Share Posted June 13, 2009 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spy beef Posted June 13, 2009 Author Share Posted June 13, 2009 I don't think it is since I made an exact duplicate of the hard drive. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gigatexel Posted June 13, 2009 Share Posted June 13, 2009 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? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spy beef Posted June 14, 2009 Author Share Posted June 14, 2009 I was using True Image Home 12.0 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ozgeek Posted June 14, 2009 Share Posted June 14, 2009 Maybe bad image. Try reimaging the new HDD again. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pbcopter Posted June 14, 2009 Share Posted June 14, 2009 You made an exact duplicate of the drive but the Windows boot manager gets lost when cloning. I have seen this many times with clones. See this article. http://www.multibooters.co.uk/articles/drive_letters.html Good luck though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spy beef Posted June 14, 2009 Author Share Posted June 14, 2009 You made an exact duplicate of the drive but the Windows boot manager gets lost when cloning. I have seen this many times with clones.See this article. http://www.multibooters.co.uk/articles/drive_letters.html Good luck though. Wow that fixed it, thank you very much! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pbcopter Posted June 14, 2009 Share Posted June 14, 2009 You are welcome. I'm glad it worked out. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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