I'm pretty adept with computers. And google is my friend. And with all this aside, I still cannot find a fix! I just got a terabyte external hard drive for christmas, and I want to connect it to my hp mini to clone and boot from it. My partition on the laptop is already cloned on the external hard drive, and I've used xxclone for that, and to make it bootable. But whenever I try to boot from it I get.. "A disk read error occured." I'm on the verge of giving up, but I desperately need this space, I'm near 300 mb left on my laptop. Any ideas?
If you know for a fact that the laptop is capable of booting from an external drive. The only problems I can think of is depending on what OS you are using that might cause problems. 1. If you are using XP, when cloned you might wind up with "partiton ID" drive letter problems. Your external will be c: drive like the original but the underlying "partition ID" drive letter might be something different. 2. Some Laptops use a different CHS geometry on the boot drive, when cloned this "CHS" geometry might have been transfered to the external drive (which also uses it's own CHS geometry). paragon rescuekit 9.0 express bootcd can help you with a "partition ID" drive letter problem. Testdisk can help you with a CHS geometry problem. Both are complicated repairs. 3rd option is to load windows onto the external drive directly. This will bypass all the CHS and drive letter problems. http://www.wilderssecurity.com/showthread.php?t=209574
So the problem is partition id? The xxclone program I'm using has the option.. "Duplicate Volume ID.; Copy volume's serial number from source to target." Will this do the same thing?
