Re: CLONE HDD Problems

Maneater wrote:
I have a 120g C: drve (unpartitioned) and purchased new 500gig to
replace it and I have older copy of Paragon Drive copy (which I have
used in the past, when I upgraded from 80gig to 120gig)

In the past I just cloned the c:drive no problems with basic setting. This time around the program cloned the c: drive as a partition on the
500 gig and the rest is unallocated. I cant access or change the
unallocated at all.

Any suggestions ? or any other clone program out there that is free and
easy to use? as I do not want a partition.


If you want to copy an old disk to a new one, the hard drive
manufacturer sometimes provides software for download for free.
For example, this is for Seagate drives. Not all manufacturers provide
the software. The links at the bottom of the page, provide
a user manual. The program itself is written by Acronis.

http://www.seagate.com/ww/v/index.jsp?locale=en-US&name=DiscWizard&vgnextoid=d9fd4a3cdde5c010VgnVCM100000dd04090aRCRD

There is a free tool here, which can extend the partition
on the 500GB drive. I have heard one story, of this tool causing
a disaster. But since you have a copy of the OS on your 120GB
drive, you can safely experiment with this on the 500GB drive.
Because, if this program fails to work correctly, you can just
copy the 120GB drive over again.

http://www.partition-tool.com/personal.htm

Another example of a free tool here. This is open source and
runs on a Linux OS. It can extend FAT32 or NTFS. You boot the
computer with this, it scans the disks (takes some time), and
then you can give it commands to change the partition size.

http://gparted.sourceforge.net/livecd.php

The very latest version (unstable) is here, and is a 100MB download.
You need a program that knows how to convert an ISO9660 file,
into a bootable CD, to prepare the CD. I use Nero for that,
but other CD burning programs can do that as well.

http://sourceforge.net/projects/gparted/files/gparted-live-testing/

Like Partition Magic, the tool "queues up" commands to be
executed. So first, you specify all the things you want done,
and it does them in a batch. On the older copy of this
that I have, the most irritating part, is the amount of
time the program spends, "scanning for DOS partitions".
I don't know why it is doing that. Perhaps that is
fixed in the latest version. It should really just read
the partition table and get on with the job. It shouldn't
really need to scan anything.

http://gparted.sourceforge.net/screens/gparted_1_big.jpg

HTH,
Paul
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