Re: Moving hard drive to another machine

From: Ron Martell (ron_at_onlinehelp.bc.ca)
Date: 07/16/04 

Date: Fri, 16 Jul 2004 03:27:38 GMT

"Art" <notaname@notanisp> wrote:

>
>Ron:
>As I indicated in my posting there's no problem involving a "lost"
>partition. The XP install disk "sees" the formatted partition during Setup.
>It just doesn't "see" that there's a Windows OS on that partition. Thus, no
>Repair option is available during Setup.
>
>Art
>

That indicates some kind of a failure during the disk copying process.

How about the external hard drive? Can you connect it up to a
functioning computer and see what the contents are?

You could try copying direct by removing the hard drive from the
laptop and using a 2.5 to 3.5 inch drive adapter to install it
temporarily into the new desktop machine. Then use your drive cloning
software to do the copy.

Having to use an intermediate disk (the external hard drive) is just
one more place for things to go wrong, and Murphy's Law does rule the
Universe.

Good luck

Ron Martell Duncan B.C. Canada 

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