Re: Drive Image destroyed partition
From: Terry Pinnell (terrypinDELETE_at_THESEdial.pipex.com)
Date: 10/08/04
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Date: Fri, 08 Oct 2004 19:54:44 +0100
"johnf" <john_f@bigREMOVEpond.net.au> wrote:
>It doesn't look too bad to me.
>Merge Disk2 (unallocated) with Backup [F:]
>Re-partition Disk 2 to approx. the same ratios as Disk 1, rename Partition 1
>to E: & then image C to E.
>
>I'm also curious as to how you have your cables set up to those drives.
>
>The correct method should be both drives jumpered to CS (Cable Select) &
>both on the one cable, plugged into IDE1, with HDD1 on the END connector &
>HDD2 on the intermediate connector.
>Check your BIOS to make sure the two drives are auto-detected correctly &
>then set (standard BIOS menu) to 'Auto' for both drives.
>IDE2 used separately to run CD-Rom drive(s).
>
>** Check all that cabling out before you try any more imaging.
Many thanks, appreciate the help. I'm reassured by your opening
sentence, and I am indeed making progress. But I still have some
worries. The devil is in the details, so I'll explain fully.
But first, the cables. They should be OK. I have made no changes since
I installed the 2nd identical Maxtor way back, and the modest
partioning and copying I did then with PM 7 and DI 2002 respectively
worked OK. I've had no problems with either HD or any of the 4
partitions - well, no obvious ones anyway. My PC is working fine, and
I am operating with both hard disks.
I started the morning by recovering my E partition, which I managed
more simply than I expected by using XP Computer Management>Disk
Management. Just r-clicked that space and created a partition called
E. Then, because of that bad sector message, I did
chkdsk c: /r
as I'd realised that my previous chkdsk c: /f had not checked the
sectors. I was encouraged when after half an hour it found a bad
sector: "Windows replaced bad clusters in file 10904 of name
windows/system32/glmf32.dll"
I then meant to do a similar chkdsk /r on e:, but carelessly repeated
it on c:. As there appeared to be no Cancel option, I sat through it
again. But I was surprised to see that identical message appear again.
Is that because XP doesn't actually *repair* the sector or cluster,
but just sort of fixes the index or whatever?
Anyway, I then tried to repeat my drive copy of C to E with DI 2002.
But this time, although both C and E were apparently identical sizes
of 11.72 GB, I noticed that it said the destination was too small.
Presumably by a whisker.
So then I ran PM 7 and nervously moved E and F around, and marginally
increased E's size. That ran 9 'operations' and took about 3 hours!
But now I am very confused by the display I see in PM:
http://www.terrypin.dial.pipex.com/Misc/PM-AfterChanges.gif
For one thing, I don't recall previously seeing anything about an
'Extended' partition before the changes, although I could be mistaken.
Is this an error on my part? Can I get rid of this Extended partition,
which just adds another level complexity as far as I'm concerned?
But also, the sizes shown do not square with what I get from XP Disk
Management:
http://www.terrypin.dial.pipex.com/Misc/XPDiskMgmt.gif
That shows E as only 11.83 GB, not 12.11 GB.
Any further help would be greatly appreciated please, as I am *very*
uncomfortable with this stuff.
-- Terry, West Sussex, UK
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