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HD Cloning Problems

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Yesterday I successfully cloned one HD to another. Everything went fine except two points. Partition D, on the cloned drive, which is Dell's recovery partition, has a red line on it and it says Drive D is full. The source drive indicates 6.81 GB free of 13.6 GB. The target drive indicates 32.0 KB free of 6.79 GB. I have been told that once you clone a HD Dell's restore to factory settings won't work on the cloned HD. The other problem I had was the system restore points were all erased on the target drive. Before cloning, I tried to remove all the restore points. I am using Windows 7 64 bit. It retained the last three restore points. When I booted into the computer using the cloned HD it states that system restore is turned off. I cloned by booting from the CD, and fortunately everything else works fine. I remember when I cloned two small boxes at the top of the screen appeared. I did not check either box, and wonder whether this is the problem.

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What version of TrueImage? Which screen in the procedure are you asking about?

You may want to redo the clone and choose the manual method and choose the "as is" method for cloning.

If cloning to a larger disk, you can adjust the partition size later.

It is always prudent to have a backup of your source disk just in case something goes haywire. Malfunctions and accidents do occur due to the nature of the process.

I am using 2012 version 6131. I used the automatic mode. I believe it was the "select the source" screen that had two entries above the first and second HD's. Next time I will take better notes. I have a backup of my source disk to an external HD that I have used to restore the system once. The target HD is actually smaller than the source drive. Right now I just want something in case of an emergency - in case the new HD (it is a new computer) suddenly goes bad. I am waiting for the price of HD's to go down before purchasing a new one. The target HD is about four years old, but still Sata and Windows 7 did detect it when it was first installed. It also added software to it - I assume the necessary drivers to make it compatible with Windows 7. I could try the manual method; I think you have posted something about that somewhere in this forum.