Jim Lawrence
accessd at shaw.ca
Sun May 27 00:55:22 CDT 2012
Hi John: You are running DriveXML from a self booting CD or thumb drive? If not, the boot tracks do not get copied only a full set of the data. (I can send you an image of the PE Builder CD with DriveImage installed.) To tidy up, I like using the EaseUS partitioning tool which you can download at http://www.partition-tool.com/download.htm Jim -----Original Message----- From: accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com [mailto:accessd-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of jwcolby Sent: Saturday, May 26, 2012 8:26 PM To: Access Developers discussion and problem solving Subject: [AccessD] Clone my hard drive I have a "public" (in the living room) XP system which my son and daughter use for games and browsing the internet. The hard disk is old and slow and I want to replace it with a new Seagate Momentus XT to speed the system up. I have been trying for days to clone the old disk using two different disk cloning packages - DriveImg XML this last time. They claim to do a sector by sector clone and in fact the resulting cloned disk looks identical (visually) but the new disk won't boot with a "disk boot failure, insert system disk and press enter" message after the bios. Google says to just do a Fixmbr from the repair console but no go. This is getting really old. The "new" drive is there, can be seen, has windows including all of the hidden system files in the root, I have done the "boot to repair console and 'fixmbr'" but it still gives me the error message. Just as an aside the new disk is slightly larger 300 gigs vs 250 gigs. Can I some how use Windows Raid1 to raid the system disk since (in theory) a Raid1 disk is identical to the paired disk. I have spent way too much time on this and am getting nowhere. Google doesn't find anything about getting past this if "fixmbr" doesn't get it working. Any ideas? -- John W. Colby Colby Consulting Reality is what refuses to go away when you do not believe in it -- AccessD mailing list AccessD at databaseadvisors.com http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/accessd Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com