MAKE THE BIOS CHANGES BEFORE RUNNING THIS PROGRAM!
I bought this cloning kit for the obvious reason: My C:\ drive was full. I had to constantly move or remove programs and/or data to clear space for updates, new programs, etc. I even extended the C:\ drive to combine with another drive. This was not recognized by some programs. Alas, what to do? During searches for solutions I stumbled on the NTI Cloning Kit. It promised an easy three step way to clone the original C:\ drive to a new larger drive. I purchased a two terabyte drive to replace the original 250 gigabyte drive. After installing the NTI disc, the program scans your computer in order to detect any possible conflicts. In my situation it found two conflicts in the BIOS. It gave specific instructions to reconcile the conflicts. Therein lies the caveat! I have always followed instructions to the letter all my life. That is generally the best way to go. Not in this case. I printed out the instructions and proceeded with the installation…the computer froze! The instructions say to start the program and it will stop to let me know to change the BIOS. When I hit the button to start the program is when the PC froze. There was nothing I could do to get a response from my PC. I called NTI.
I spoke to Heather at customer support for about an hour. Heather was very thorough but we could not solve the problem as the PC was frozen despite several times attempting to reboot the system with a Windows thumb drive. I gave up for that day. The following day I spoke with my Grandson about this. He knows the workings of a computer better than I. We finally got the PC to turn on. He accessed the BIOS and made the changes specified in the program. With no prompting from me, IMMEDIATELY the NTI Cloning program continued and completed the process successfully!
The moral of this long story: Make the BIOS changes BEFORE attempting to run the program.
I heartily recommend the NTI Cloning Kit. It did a fantastic job.
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