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| Thread ID: 118646 | 2011-06-15 01:55:00 | Trouble cloning windows 7 partition!! | stone2 (9037) | Press F1 |
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| 1209314 | 2011-06-15 07:37:00 | You are better off going with the Active@ disk image. While its not free, there is a trial version, From here (www.disk-image.net) 146MB from memory 15 or 30 day days trial (cant recall now) - get the installer and bootable CD, it allows you to do any work from the CD. It has options to select only certain partitions. Paragons free one -- Forget it, seen so many failures with that its not funny. Better to go with something that does work. If you wanted to create an image first (as a backup) then Active does allow you to select partitions, so if you imaged the two windows 7 partitions to an external drive, network storage it will then thats what it will image. Another one that works sometimes is ToDo (www.todo-backup.com)- the free home version does allow you to clone just partitions, BUT keep in mind, windows 7 makes a hidden partition which is usually the cause of many failures. LOTS of cloning software cant handle that partition. Failures: With W7 & various programs Paragons Free one -- Around 70% failure Acronis, about 50% Active@ - never, and I use it daily to make backups of customers Drives before working on them as most people still don't do backups, and I dont want be held responsible for losing their data. |
wainuitech (129) | ||
| 1209315 | 2011-06-15 08:50:00 | Paragon was a big fail from me, it screwed my system completely leading to a re install as I was trying to image it at the time so didn't have an image to restore. Now use Active and its great. I only image my C drive as my D drive is only data and I back that up by folder using syncback as the data is then available to me form any computer on my network | gary67 (56) | ||
| 1209316 | 2011-06-15 12:42:00 | You are better off going with the Active@ disk image. While its not free, there is a trial version, From here (www.disk-image.net) 146MB from memory 15 or 30 day days trial (cant recall now) - get the installer and bootable CD, it allows you to do any work from the CD. It has options to select only certain partitions. Paragons free one -- Forget it, seen so many failures with that its not funny. Better to go with something that does work. If you wanted to create an image first (as a backup) then Active does allow you to select partitions, so if you imaged the two windows 7 partitions to an external drive, network storage it will then thats what it will image. Another one that works sometimes is ToDo (www.todo-backup.com)- the free home version does allow you to clone just partitions, BUT keep in mind, windows 7 makes a hidden partition which is usually the cause of many failures. LOTS of cloning software cant handle that partition. Failures: With W7 & various programs Paragons Free one -- Around 70% failure Acronis, about 50% Active@ - never, and I use it daily to make backups of customers Drives before working on them as most people still don't do backups, and I dont want be held responsible for losing their data. So I am trying it right now. I am making a disk image within windows and then Im going to restore that image to the new drive. Then can I shut down unplug old HDD and plug in new HDD and windows will boot from the new drive? Q. Will the new drive be labeled C: ? |
stone2 (9037) | ||
| 1209317 | 2011-06-15 21:56:00 | Yes the boot drive is always C | gary67 (56) | ||
| 1209318 | 2011-06-15 22:21:00 | Yes the boot drive is always C No, not always mate....if you have 2 partitions, 1 boot, 1 data, then delete the boot, then go to install new o/s on the boot partition, then old xp will put boot loader on the data partition and name it c: leaving new o/s boot as d: |
SolMiester (139) | ||
| 1209319 | 2011-06-15 22:29:00 | No, not always mate....if you have 2 partitions, 1 boot, 1 data, then delete the boot, then go to install new o/s on the boot partition, then old xp will put boot loader on the data partition and name it c: leaving new o/s boot as d: Oops I thought the C would always get given to the new boot as well, I stand corrected |
gary67 (56) | ||
| 1209320 | 2011-06-15 22:29:00 | Ok, I've nearly had enough. I downloaded Active@ Disk Image trial and made my image and made a boot disk but when prompted to put in serial key it say's it's invalid..WTF Help!!! |
stone2 (9037) | ||
| 1209321 | 2011-06-16 01:15:00 | Never mind, did it within windows and ...Success!! Thanks to all who helped. |
stone2 (9037) | ||
| 1209322 | 2011-06-16 05:35:00 | I had to change the hard drive on a desk Top Asus today. The Acronis system Image was from a 30GB partition, and the Active primary on the new drive was 80GB. After I restored the Image the 80GB partition was reduced to 30GB, same as the Image. Booted into Puppy Linux, Part-edit and expanded the partition to 80GB again. No problems except that it got me to run Skandisk first. On the subject of Paragon; I have a bought version of it. I gave up using it as Windows often lost its activation after a restore. Don't have that problem with Aconis. |
mzee (3324) | ||
| 1209323 | 2011-06-21 03:22:00 | I've sucessfully used Casper - creates a bootable image. I have a 2nd hard drive that I create my image to and unplug it between my monthly re-imaging. Casper is not free but I've been able to install it on 3 other computers to create images for them, too. |
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