Comments on: Apricorn EZ II Hard Drive Upgrade Kit and the Dell 700m

By: Anders

Anders — Fri, 22 Oct 2010 02:45:22 +0000

I had the same problem as in the initial post; cloned using the software installed on my old hard drive in my Dell 700m, and then only got the “Loading…..Done” message without Windows loading after finishing. So I cloned the hard drive again, this time booting from the EZII CD and with the new hard drive in the laptop and the old one in the EZII case. And after that I just turned off the Dell, took out the CD and disconnected the old hard drive; and then rebooted and Windows loaded from the new hard drive without problem and the cloning had worked. So bottom line – booting from the EZII CD worked for me even though the EZII instructions said it is better to run the software from Windows.

By: Sam S.

Sam S. — Wed, 09 Jun 2010 18:09:21 +0000

Thanks. I still have them. I saw a post elsewhere and the guy used his windows cd and hit repair, then fixboot. I’ll try that when i get home. Apparently there is some sort of hiiden partition. Thanks for getting back to me!

By: admin

admin — Wed, 09 Jun 2010 14:33:56 +0000

Its been so long its hard to remember. After rereading my post I see that I said “non-recommended way according to the instructions”. I think the instructions gave a second way to do it. I don’t think it was booting from the Windows CD. Do you have the instructions? If not I can see if I still do.

By: Sam S

Sam S — Wed, 09 Jun 2010 14:10:36 +0000

Hi,
I’m having the same problem with the exact same hardware. I want to follow your instructions, but I am a little confused. What CD did you boot from, the software CD or Windows CD? Please advise. Thanks in advance.