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MigrateEasy - Can't select old hard drive as source

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I'm trying to clone a dying 120GB hd to a 500GB hd using Migrate Easy® version 7.0 (build 644) on an HP computer running WinXP SP3. Both disks are recognized in the BIOS and in Windows. Here is my setup:

IDE Primary hard disk 0 - Western Digital 120GB jumpered as Master (simple dynamic NTFS partition) - boot drive (C:)
IDE Primary hard disk 1 - Western Digital 500GB jumpered as Slave (basic primary NTFS partition) - new drive (D:)

Please see attached .JPG for the Windows Disk Management screenshot. As you can see, there is a portion of the dynamic drive that has failed (which is why I'm trying to clone my data to a new hard drive). I've been a computer tech for many years, but I confess I have zero experience with dynamic disks (and this is for a client, so I have no idea the history of this drive).

When using both the Windows and rescue CD disk versions of Migrate Easy, the following occurs:

I select Disk Clone, then Manual, then I'm at the screen to select the old source drive - it does not display the old 120GB drive, it only displays the new 500GB drive. As a test, I selected the new 500GB as the source, then at the next screen where I'm to select the new destination drive, it displays the old 120GB as a selection.

Why can Migrate Easy show the old 120GB as a selectable target, but not as a selectable source? Can you please help me reverse this condition? Thanks so much.

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I'm pretty sure you'll have to convert the Dynamic disk to a basic one before ME will clone.

Disk Cloning within True Image (which is basically a version of ME) will also produce the result you're seeing if the source drive appears to be unpartitioned as a faulty dynamic disk might.

I haven't used the standalone ME so don't know how different it is to it's bigger brother embedded in TI.

I doubt putting the source drive into a USB external case and the new one into the PC performing a reverse clone will work either.

That stinks. And seems odd, considering it saw the dynamic disk just fine as a target disk. Thanks for the reply, Colin.