Adding an extra HDD

closed

what are the drive letter and partition type settings set to in restored partition properties screen?

try cloning one partition instead.

image backups are better imo, unless you have a need for a swapout.

rmg1

Hi Closed - I'm trying to clone my current drive (2 partitions, one of them is system reserved).
According to the visual bits of Macrium, both partitions are ticked to be cloned but it just won't allow it.

Do I need to clone one partition at a time?

Toxteth_OGrady

Have you tried to do the clone operation from the Macrium Rescue boot CD - may be worth a try.

http://kb.macrium.com/KnowledgebaseArticle50082.aspx

rmg1

Hi Toxteth - I haven't as yet.
I tried to do another backup using Macrium and got the cyclic redundancy errors again because of bad sectorts.
Ran CHKDSK C: /R and now I'm stuck in a loop where Windows is trying to repair itself and fails.
I can't use any restore points either because apparently there's a problem with one of the files.

Anyone any ideas?

Verb

diskmgmt.msc

Type the above in the cmd prompt and give the new drive a letter

i.e the DVD drive is normally (D:)

Just use the next available letter in the alphabet

rmg1

I can't boot into windows to get to disk management.
The main drive was OK until I ran the chkdsk command.

Lucero_2

F5 into safe mode. As much as this sounds odd, it sounds like you've tried to clone the drive to itself.

These are my questions:

1) Why are we cloning this to a new drive anyway, does the old one have issues?
2) If you've formatted the new disk in Windows, it will now already have a system partition on it and most cloning software will fail
3) If you are running Windows 7, use the built in backup tool to create a system state and image to the new drive. If that works, we can talk about how to recover it later
4) If all that fails, use Acronis True Image and create the clone from the pre Windows environment.

rmg1

1 - The current drive has issues (nad sectors and so on) which is why I wanted to copy everything across to a new drive
2 - I tried to do it from unformatted first and that failed. I then formatted the drive and tried again, that also failed. Even on failure, windows says the drive isn't formatted anyway.

3 - I am using windows 7, so I'll try the built in back-up tool providing it creates an exact image (including everything I've installed and all my documents)

4 - I tried Acronis as well, but that wouldn't read back the backups it had made as they were apparently corrupt.

Lucero_2

There's obviously system corruption on the files. Have you considered spinning up again from scratch and moving your data across manually? You'll never get an accurate clone if you have corrupt system files which would at least support why Acronis and Macrium are failing.

Toxteth_OGrady

rmg1 wrote: »

3 - I am using windows 7, so I'll try the built in back-up tool providing it creates an exact image (including everything I've installed and all my documents)

It does - I use it as well as Macrium.

http://windows.microsoft.com/en-gb/windows7/back-up-your-programs-system-settings-and-files