[AccessD] Clone my hard drive

Glad to hear, John.

Jim

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Sent: Saturday, May 26, 2012 10:49 PM
To: Access Developers discussion and problem solving
Subject: Re: [AccessD] Clone my hard drive

I tried ghost and I am up and running on my new disk.

John W. Colby
Colby Consulting

Reality is what refuses to go away
when you do not believe in it

On 5/26/2012 11:26 PM, jwcolby wrote:
> 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?
>

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