I've tried both USB 3 and the USB 2 ports as well, and made sure to format the drive before each cloning attempt. I've tried using Paragon Recovery Kit through BIOS to activate things, but those are all greyed out too. I've tried going into the Disk Management on Windows and setting the newly copied OS partition (now labeled A: ) to active, but that option is greyed out because, well, I don't think Windows recognizes the new Seagate as a separate disk because it's connected by USB. It gets through 100% of what it needs to do, then it quickly cycles through a few windows and gives me a giant white window with a giant, red, ERROR message. I start it up because I've already made the 4 Asus Recovery DVDs so whatever if it wipes everything at this point. Okay, so I put in the System Repair Disc, and it brings up the special Asus menu instead of the Windows one. Also, as a side note, none of the cloned partitions get set to active after cloning. It's a laptop, so I only have the System Repair Disc that Windows 7 lets me make, and during the cloning process all of the partitions get re-named (which I think is one of the issues) so the recovery partition isn't linked to the proper F key or something.
It tells me I need the Windows Installation Disc to repair the start up.
It completes successfully, I shut down, swap out the drives. I've updated my BIOS like ASUS tech support told me, and then I recloned the original 500gb Hitachi HDD to my new Seagate Momentus XT 750 gb using an Apricorn USB 3.0 enclosure (with EaseUS software, as the EZ GIG IV software wasn't working for me either). I've been going nuts trying to get this to work, so bear with me: I'm on an ASUS K55N Windows 7 Home Laptop with 8gb RAM.
I'm just trying to upgrade my harddrive to a bigger and faster one.
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