Cloned drive booting issues

[CarlBar]

Just finished cloning my OS drive to a new drive with mercurium reflect. However when i attempt to boot from it i get to the windows logo with the white dot circle and it just sticks there, the dots keep going round but it doesn't get any further even after extended waiting. I'm really not sure what to do as i'm not even sure what the issue is. In the XP days i'd just have shoved the install disk in and told it to do a repair, not sure if thats the right thing to do here, Also would have to dig out a spare USB  and create a media, so hoping there's an alternative.

 

The old drive i cloned from boots fine and i'm using that to type this, so it hasn't bricked the computer just seems to get stuck during boot from the new drive.

[Rekoran]

First of all u should try to repair windows with an installation medium. Like an USB Stick or something. Because in most cases u can clone the windows, but sometimes the bootloader doesnt get cloned. 

[LWM723]

Try cloning with different software. I've always had good results with Minitool Drivecopy.

[leclod]

1 hour ago, CarlBar said:

Just finished cloning my OS drive to a new drive with mercurium reflect.

You mean Macrium Reflect

[CarlBar]

1 hour ago, leclod said:

You mean Macrium Reflect

 

Yes my spelling sucks, i know :p.

 

2 hours ago, Rekoran said:

First of all u should try to repair windows with an installation medium. Like an USB Stick or something. Because in most cases u can clone the windows, but sometimes the bootloader doesnt get cloned. 

 

Wouldn't it just fail to boot though in that case? It's booting, just getting suck midway through the loading windows process.

[Rekoran]

10 minutes ago, CarlBar said:

 

Yes my spelling sucks, i know :p.

 

 

Wouldn't it just fail to boot though in that case? It's booting, just getting suck midway through the loading windows process.

No it wouldnt.
Because if u change the boot order to the stick, it should boot into the installation proccess. and after ur choice of language, u can click repair options in the left bottom corner. 

Otherwise u can try to hit f8 as soon as u click the power button to fire up the pc. then u may come into the repairoptions from ur system and try to repair it over it. If this fails, i would suggest u to use the stick variant i mentioned above

[CarlBar]

7 minutes ago, Rekoran said:

No it wouldnt.
Because if u change the boot order to the stick, it should boot into the installation proccess. and after ur choice of language, u can click repair options in the left bottom corner. 

Otherwise u can try to hit f8 as soon as u click the power button to fire up the pc. then u may come into the repairoptions from ur system and try to repair it over it. If this fails, i would suggest u to use the stick variant i mentioned above

 

No what i meant was if the bootloader was messed up wouldn't it not get to the attempt to load windows part?

[Rekoran]

If u boot from a external device such as an usb stick, u get an own bootloader from this stick.

[CarlBar]

Om attempted to boot using an install media, no joy it couldn't repair it and when i tried to do a reinstall it said a bootable media can't do that. So any more idea's short of wiping the drive completely which i really don't want to do as it means reinstalling so much and losing so many saved settings and stuff.