Re: Moving Active Partition

You are welcome, Nick.
Steve

"TrickTrash" <guardclone-newz +removethis+ @yahoo.co.uk> wrote in message
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Steve

Thanks for your explanation; It makes all the difference to KNOW -rather
than suspect- I'm on the right track. I'm pretty sure of my ground now &
I'll give it a whirl. It's easy enough to do, what with True Image &
PartitionMagic etc. And my ego has taken enough knocks not to be too
sensitive anymore.

I appreciate your help

yours

nick

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Og

Thanks for your reply.

You don't mention the MBR -something I know next to bugger-all about- or
the MFT, ditto. Do I have to worry about this ? Or am I
overcomplicating things, which seems probable ?

I've got Images of C: backed up which I believe I can use, but what's
the problems with installing an Image onto a new drive ? Is there a
difference between an Image and a Clone ?

It's probably simple enough, but not having done it before, I'm unsure
and want to get it right.

yours

TrickTrash


I've already got Images backed up from which

1. Image = Clone
2. The MBR is contained within the cloned image.
3. Take it easy -- cloning an image to a new drive, if unsuccessful,
will not "damage" anything other than your ego.
4. Read the directions that came with your imaging program to lean how
to restore an image to a different hard drive. Follow those directions
step-by-step.
5. If the new drive fails to boot, recognize that failure is part of
the learning process and repeat steps #3 and #4.
Good luck,
Steve

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Dave

I have the tools to do as you suggest, but I've never done this before
and what i'm really trying to find out is; what are the unintended
consequences of taking an image and putting it on the other HDD.

Thanks for your reply

yours

TrickTrash


Risks associated with cloning the partition:
1. All damaged Operating System files will be cloned from the old
drive to the new drive. If you are already experiencing boot problems,
it is likely that, at a minimum, you will need to run System File
Checker (sfc) on the cloned disk.
2. For the average user, a hard disk experiences its most extreme
usage when installing an Operating System, and when cloning the disk.
There is a high risk, therefore, that the failing disk will die in the
middle of the clone process (been there, done that).
Steve


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You would have to free up space on the second drive as unallocated,
then use an image program that supports partition copy. It would be
easier to just replace the failing drive with a new one and do a
complete image.

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Recently I've noticed that one of my 2 Hard Disk Drives may be about
to fail; It's behaving erratically and occasionally refusing to
boot.















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