Hey all

I recently copied my XP partition from my old HD to a new HD. I tried to play a dvd and WINDOWS media player just shows a black screen and ends up crashing, but when i unplug the new HD and PLUG in the old one (which has the exact same copy of XP on, just havent got around to formatting it YET) and it works perfectly. Could it be a bad drive to drive copy? I used Acronis Disk Director 10.

Any ideas?

ThanksIt very well could be if that is the only difference involved. Are there any problems listed in Device Manager? Do you now have two hard drives where you used to have one?Originally had 2 drives in comp, the old one - 40GB and a newer one - 160GB. XP was on the 40GB HD and using Acronis disk director 10 i copied it over to the 160GB HD. I assumed the copy WENT ok, unplugged the 40gb and had just the 160 plugged in. I noticed that DVD's wouldnt play so as an experiment i unplugged the 160 and replugged in the 40 and the DVD would now work. I then went back on to the 160 and used check partition thing with acronis which is just chkdsk, which said there were erros with the partition and to run 'chkdsk /f' which i did. Rebooted and checked again and it says there are no errors, loaded up my network and checked again and now the errors are back and the same thing is told, run chkdsk /f. Sounds liked a bad copy. So i switched back to the 40 and checked that with chkdsk, and it has errors, so maybe acronis copied the HD with errors? Should i run chkdsk /f on the 40GB and then copy it?

THanksAnd the drives are jumpered correctly? And each one works fine if it is the only drive in the machine? How are all of the drives connected? WHat IDE oport, master/slave, etc?Drives work fine on their own and are jumpered correctly. At the moment the 40gb is master and the 160gb is slave. Ive deleted the copy for now.

The chkdsk scans i did on the hard drives might be inaccurate cause i had processes running when they were done which can cause errors which dont really exist. I think both hard drives are error free and im just copying it wrong.

What i am doing is copying it over using disk director which then reboots the comp while the 40gb is still plugged in as the master and the 160gb is at slave. I thought that once the copy is complete i should switch the 160 hard drive to master before the 40 boots up as it messes up the MBR otherwise?I don't know what Disk Director does that plain old True Image does not, but I can make an image, burn to DVD and then just swap the hard drives and reboot with the Acronis CD and restore from the DVD itself. Do you have a bootable Acronis CD?All i have is disk director on the comp as a program, i expected it to be an iso but it wasnt. You choose 'copy' and then it waits till you reboot to do it as it cant do it with programs running, but then it just restarts when its done so you dont have TIME to switch the HD's around and thats what i think is messing it up, or its just not copying properly. When i plug in the 160GB hd with the copy on it, its jerky and lags, and DVD's wont play (these are the only problems i have noticed). I paid 50$ for this disk director so i want it to work [smiley=angry.gif] [smiley=angry.gif]Well, I have not used that specific product. As I said the retail True Image has a bootable CD with the program on it also for installation. If it is used to boot the machine, ALL of the restore functions are available.

Have you tried booting with yours? Was this a retail purchase? I would contact Acronis if you are a registered user. By paying $50 I am assuming you are.