Re: Looking for Data Recover Disk Software

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Thanks Pat for the input. Thanks for the helpful corrections.

First, indeed I am looking for imaging/cloning software not data recovery,
although that would be an added benifit.

Second: Sandy58 on this thread offered the idea about Actonis which I
downloaded the Acronis True Image Home 2009. It appeared to be the answer to
my cloning situation until I selected the Destination partition on the new
disk and it responded with
an option box the wants to delete and reformat the entire disk of which I
have off-loaded some important data to buy mysekf some room on my OS boot
partition. This troubles me because I don't want to spend another two to
four hours moving some of the same data again to yet another location. All I
need for a product to do is copy/clone/image one partition om disk (A) to
the another partition on disk (B). This Seagate new drive software offers
the same type of functional option as Acronis.

Third: Currently, the source disk has no errors, but my OS is in the
extended area of this disk & I would like to restore the OS to a Primary
partition.

Fourth: I am hoping the processing of cloning this partition that the
software picks up information from the BIOS to include in this clone
feature, and place that information on the destination disk as well. I hope
this type of functionality exist in some of these cloing packages to
eliminate a lot of headaces down the road. In addition, my new mobo has
features that allow me to not only set the (First, Second, Third) boot
sequence, it also gives me ability to physically choose whidh disk should be
the first inline to be booted from, so XP should recognize how my
environment is structed and apply his drive-letter routine accordingly.

Thanks again for all of your input. If I am off-base about something please
get back to me . . .
TomJ.
"Patrick Keenan" <test@xxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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"tjdarth" <tjdarth@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Hey guys, I had a HD error and had to replace it5 with a new one. I found
a good deal on a 1.4 TB HD. I have partitioned this new drive in hopes of
moving my existing XP-SP3 entire system to one of the new partitions. I
am looking for a package that will allow me the opportunity to achieve
this cloning function without losing access to the OS. Any ideas on this
subject would be appreciated.

Thanks in advance . . . . Tom J.

A few things. First, you're asking about imaging software, not data
recovery software.

Second, many people get excellent results with Acronis TrueImage, and you
can use the free trial.

Third, if the source disk has errors, imaging may fail.

Fourth, moving the install to a partition that won't have the same drive
letter isn't necessarily a good idea.

HTH
-pk







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