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Hard Drive Will Not Boot

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BobGoblin

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Hello - I purchased a Toshiba X300 8 TB Hard drive.....upgrading from a Samsung 870 EVO 1 TB

I used the SSK DK103 - to clone the two drives....drive process in the docking station ran to completion, but when i attempt to boot the 8tb drive in my desktop it spins and spins for about 2 minutes, then it Blue screens and the stop code is BAD_SYSTEM_CONFIG_INFO

Did I screw something up here? I thought it would be easy to make a 1 to 1 copy using this cloner
 
#2
Did you check if the computer can run an 8tb.
Reinstall the 1tb and boot.

Can you Download and run and then post. https://www.ccleaner.com/speccy/download
To publish a Speccy profile to the Web:​

In Speccy, click File, and then click Publish Snapshot.​

In the Publish Snapshot dialog box, click Yes to enable Speccy to proceed.

Speccy publishes the profile and displays a second Publish Snapshot dialog box. You can open the URL in your default browser, copy it to the clipboard, or close the dialog box.

The last part of each URL is randomized, so only people you provide with the URL will be able to find your profile.

The information given in Speccy cannot be used by anyone to hack your system

Could you also include the power supply specs E.g Cooler Master 850W Gold V2 NOT E.g 850w
 
#4
sometimes cloning the old boot drive onto an new drive works, sometimes not.
usually best to simply reload Windows onto the new drive, install the drivers and your software, then plug in the old drive and recover your personal files.

that way, Windows setups up the necessary partitions, boot sector, and file allocations that it deems best for the new drive, rather than using the settings cloned from the old drive that may not be the best choices for the new, much larger drive.

also gives you a chance to start from a clean slate, rather than copy any potential errors across from the old drive - and the SMART values on the 1TB are showing a couple of areas of concern even though the status still shows as Good.
 
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hey Bruce - i don't see where my previous response posted...

I'm doing this for my son - and the reason i did not just manually copy things over is he swears that doing it that method will not copy over progress from steam games. IDK - I've never messed with steam so I have no context to go on...
 
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To add to what has already been stated.

Some games store the data online.

some games have instructions on how to transfer that information.

Why go from an SSD to an HDD which will be slower and less stable?

Why not add the HDD and use for storage and get some of the information off the SSD?

Partition 2
Partition ID: Disk #0, Partition #2
Disk Letter: C:
File System: NTFS
Volume Serial Number: 661852DD
Size: 930 GB
Used Space: 904 GB (97%)
Free Space: 25.9 GB (3%)

Windows requires on average 30% to 35% free space including 32 GB free space for updates, 7-10 GB reserved for future proofing on the C drive.
This is not including and limited to what the system uses for backups, swap page and hibernate files.

When this does not happen filles can become corrupted and or deleted and or not even saved at all.

There are several failed listed in the updates.
 
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Rustys said:
To add to what has already been stated.

Some games store the data online.

some games have instructions on how to transfer that information.

Why go from an SSD to an HDD which will be slower and less stable?

Why not add the HDD and use for storage and get some of the information off the SSD?

Partition 2
Partition ID: Disk #0, Partition #2
Disk Letter: C:
File System: NTFS
Volume Serial Number: 661852DD
Size: 930 GB
Used Space: 904 GB (97%)
Free Space: 25.9 GB (3%)

Windows requires on average 30% to 35% free space including 32 GB free space for updates, 7-10 GB reserved for future proofing on the C drive.
This is not including and limited to what the system uses for backups, swap page and hibernate files.

When this does not happen filles can become corrupted and or deleted and or not even saved at all.

There are several failed listed in the updates.
Click to expand...

Strictly for the storage space. The drive said it was strictly for Gaming and Performance
 
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@PeterOz -> so the new hard drive connected and the win 10 installer on a usb flash drive and boot from the flash drive but choose the repair option?

Am I understanding you?

I don't understand the Macrium guide....guess I'm to much of a noob
 
#13
Correct
You need an 8gb minimum usb flash drive. NB all data will be deleted from flash drive.
Connect only the new drive.
Boot from flash drive and when you see this screen click on repair.
 

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@PeterOz - i tried this route, and it is unable to repair.

i even tried to install windows on the drive, and it gets to installing updates and hangs for about 45 minutes then says install failed and the installer stops
 
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okay - i am just going to put the 1TB drive back in the desktop and do a fresh install of windows on the 8TB...

Well so I thought, after plugging the 1TB back into the desktop, and trying to pwer on, it boots to BIOS and shows the 1TB SSD DRive listed in Sata Port 3, but it will only boot to BIOS?
 
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