Can't Copy a Partition

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I have Disk Director 10, build 2,239.

I'm getting ready to build a clean instance of XP, so I like to copy the current main OS(partition) to an older drive and build the new instance on my newest drive. I am trying to copy my current C: drive to another disk. Then with OS Selector installed, I can access the current instance while building the new one on the good drive.

I am using a bootable disk created with bootable rescue media builder.

I use the manual option.

Things start off fine. The source disk has 96GB of data on it. The target disk is 149GB, completely unallocated.

I tell it I want to copy, it analyzes my C: drive and then prompts me to select the target. I click the target and I can't move to the next screen. Stuck. I cancel.

When I return to the main Disk Director window, it now reports that my source C: drive has zero bytes available. The properties for the disk say there is an error. Bad bitmap I believe.

I exit Acronis. Eject the bootable CD. Start things up and everything works fine. I check the C: drive, all fine.

Any idea what's going on?

The good news is all my disks are fine, the bad new is I can't complete the copy.

Wed, 03/17/2010 - 16:55
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Are you using the DD CD created from DD or the one created using the ISO download available in your Acronis account? Whichever one you're using, you could try the other one.

If both drives are internal, you could also try using the Safe Mode version of DD.

I assume you're selecting Unallocated space for the copy destination. Is DD locking up as soon as you click the target or is it that you can proceed with the wizard?

Wed, 03/17/2010 - 18:19
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Ok, new twist. I reran chkdisk and it too found the same issue that the copy was identifying. The problem I have now is that chkdsk can't run b/c the disk is in use. So I schedule it to run on reboot, but it never runs. I have OSS installed, not sure if that's somehow blocking it from starting.

Anyone had trouble with getting chkdsk to run on restart?

BTW, so I booted from my DD disk, only to find that chkdsk is not available from it. I assume that's b/c the disk is running linux, but it's still lame that there isn't some tool there to fix a disk. Seems pretty basic for a product like this.

Wed, 03/17/2010 - 19:15
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If you have a Windows CD/ DVD, you could boot to it and run chkdsk. In XP, it would be in the Recovery Console. In Vista and Windows 7, it would be Repair Mode and then the Command Prompt.

OSS shouldn't be blocking chkdsk from running.

Regarding the DD CD and checking partitions, DD uses the Windows program. As a result, it's not available when booted to the CD.

Wed, 03/17/2010 - 19:24
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I was able to run chkdsk from the install CD and that fixed the problem. I was then able to copy. As an enhancement, it would have helped if when the copy found disk errors, it would have popped up a message. It was not obvious until I rescanned the drive.

Thu, 03/18/2010 - 18:20