Got a quite... frustrating problem I keep running into on my main desktop PC.
The problem is that after I restore an image (with clonezilla) onto a drive on that machine, the machine will hang at "Auto-Detecting SATA#..." on the next boot.
Hooking that same drive up to another machine and restoring it there works perfectly fine. Also, just deleting the partitions on the drive and hooking it back up allows the machine to boot.
It's puzzling, since I've tried other drives, other cables, other sata ports and other versions of Clonezilla, but the same thing happens. I've done memtest86+ as well as hdd diagnostics with no errors.
With the latest stable version of clonezilla, it throws out a CRC error first and then if I try the restore again, it completes fine, but the machine hangs when it's trying to detect the drive.
It's royally pissing me off, since I clone the drives, so I don't have to take them out of the PC they are in, and that is the only machine that is giving me problems.
Ironically, restoring that same image on a different machine or even in a VM succeeds without any problems.
If I've ruled out the HDD and Memory, what else is there to check?
System specs:
Asus BIOS 1005
P5Q SE
8GB DDR2
E8500 Core2Duo
320GB WD HDD
500GB Hitachi HDD
GXT260