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| Thread ID: 113963 | 2010-11-12 05:55:00 | hard drive dieing? | goodiesguy (15316) | Press F1 |
| Post ID | Timestamp | Content | User | ||
| 1152235 | 2010-11-12 09:53:00 | Can't you see the progress on the screen? | Snorkbox (15764) | ||
| 1152236 | 2010-11-12 10:22:00 | The active@disk image bootable CD will make an image, then that can be put back on the new drive. its good for 21 Days (the trial) | wainuitech (129) | ||
| 1152237 | 2010-11-12 10:26:00 | im using "Easeus todobackup" that "AvonBill" suggested. the 160gb is in an external enclosure and the software is cloning the 120gb on to the 160gb. its at 39% |
goodiesguy (15316) | ||
| 1152238 | 2010-11-12 10:57:00 | light some incense! | SoniKalien (792) | ||
| 1152239 | 2010-11-12 13:29:00 | It's done. The WD 160GB hard drive is in, and i cannot believe how fast my pc is running!! For some reason, when i cloned it, it partitioned the HD to the size of the old one, so its only saying 120GB (115GB to be exact) instead of the 160GB (149GB to be exact) Is this fixable, or should i just leave it? |
goodiesguy (15316) | ||
| 1152240 | 2010-11-12 19:10:00 | It's fixable just need to expand the partition | gary67 (56) | ||
| 1152241 | 2010-11-13 01:55:00 | I'm not trying to sound dumb, as i know how to do things with partitions etc.. But what is the best and safest way? I don' want to bugger up the hard drive. |
goodiesguy (15316) | ||
| 1152242 | 2010-11-13 02:37:00 | I've always booted from a CD, something like Paragon Partition Manager, or have been using Partition Wizard (www.partitionwizard.com) lately, its free and works on most drives - I say most, as for some reason it doesn't like some PC's. The ISO is on the left under bootable CD -- Then you should see the unused area of the drive, (hopefully its at the end of the drive) and simply move the slider to take the full capacity. "sometimes" when working within windows it can give a few problems as in not wanting to change as the OS in use. |
wainuitech (129) | ||
| 1152243 | 2010-11-13 20:33:00 | I use mostly either Gparted, Active@ or Acronis true Image all from the bootable CD | gary67 (56) | ||
| 1152244 | 2010-11-14 00:40:00 | Is your "Deathstar" drive one of the Hitachi or IBM ones? | Agent_24 (57) | ||
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