Shown for extra information that may or may not prove useful is what I see in Windows Disk Manager: After turning the drive "Online" it now appears in My Computer, but as I said previously, still not in the BIOS boot menu. Basically, my computer recognized its presence, but Windows did not and it did not appear in My Computer. When I first cloned the HDD, in Windows Disk Management program it said that the new HDD was "Offline" since it had the same signature as my old HDD, or something like that. Unfortunately nothing can actually be typed, and all the computer can do in this state is beep at me when I press the keyboard. If I unplug my C drive and start my computer, then my monitor will just show a black screen with a blinking white cursor similar to the command prompt's located in the top left. I would assume I can boot from it, seeing how it has all the Windows files on it. The BIOS can't seem to detect it as a boot device. The problem is that while I can see the new drive (and its backup partition as well) in My Computer, I cannot select it while in the BIOS. There were a few options I wasn't sure about, including whether or not I should allow it to resize the partitions automatically or not, so after having trouble the first time, I wiped the new drive and cloned it again using the other options. I cloned my drive using the Miray HDClone 4.3 free edition program. I figured I could buy a new HDD, clone my old one, and then simply select to boot from the new drive in the BIOS. Needless to say I have no experience with cloning / replacing drives. I've added other drives, sure, but never used any other drive in all my computers to boot from. I have never once replaced this HDD as my main. I recently cloned my old 180 GB C drive to a new 2TB hybrid drive.
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