Hi I was told that this group of people is the smartest and I hope you all can help me.
I wanted to make a copy of my operating system so I could put it on my new HD in my laptop…I was told ..”easy ..since you don’t have a disk but have a valid product key just clone your deskk top drive and make it a bootable clone then put it onto your new hard drive and it will work.
So I downloaded and ran “XXClone” to do the job for me and used my C drive as the source and a newly partitioned drive as the target drive for the cloned drive to go. The OS I am cloning here BTW is Windows XP Media Center which I love. I did everything to make it bootable and started to clone it and was soon told my new drive (of 7 gigs) wasn’t large enough to contain the entire cloned info …so I thought …well this is too much work i will just go get a disk and turned it off …then when I turned it back on earlier the only option it gave me on start up was to boot fromm the partially cloned drive only. Since it was only 1/3 of the drive it obviously wouldn’t boot anything …How can I fix this and get back to the proper drive to be able tpo access my C Drive and boot from it again… Like dorothy in the wizard of oz ..”I just want to go home” Help!