cloning drive C
This morning my Compaq Laptop would not boot up, displayed message "a disk read error Occurred".
The error occurred on a 360gb drive that I had upgraded from a 90bg drive to last year.
I removed the 360gb drive and replaced it with my old 90gb drive and the laptop booted up fine.
I then placed the 360 gb drive that was giving the error and placed it in the laptops multi-bay slot and I am able to see all the files and access them.
So, my question is, since I have two multi-bay slots, can I clone the 360gb drive that is giving me the error to another drive of the same size (I have a brand new unused 360gb drive of the same model) and potentially create a new drive that I can boot from?
In other words, can I take the drive that gives me the "disk read error", place it in one of my multi-bays, place a brand new disk in the other multi-bay slot and clone the drive giving me the error to the new drive and will acronus clone the drive so I can replace my C drive with the newly cloned drive?
Thanks
Paul
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Thanks GroverH. I did not see your response in time so I ran the clone process. I placed the bad 360 in one multibay slot, the new 360 in another multibay slot and ran the clone process from the one that is giving me the disk read error when I start the laptop to the new one. The clone process ran for hours then just ended with no indication of success. However, when I go into disk management, I can see the new drive however there are no drive letters. When I check the "properties" of the partitions, the used and free space is identical to those of the 360 source drive, so, it looks like the cloning process wrote the data to the new drive. Not sure why there are no drive letters, the bad 360 drive show up as F and H (were C and D when it was my only bootable drive).
I have never made a TI recovery CD. I am going to try an place the cloned drive (with no drive letters showing up) and pop it in the primary drive slot (where the 90 is presently) and see what happens.
If that does not work, I will try your method if I can figure out how to make the recovery CD.
Thanks !
Paul
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One way to create CD
http://www.wilderssecurity.com/showthread.php?t=188253
Use the Windows version or the CD version but clear the target disk of its partitons before cloning.
This can ge done from the Tools/Add new disk option
Leave the target disk unpartitioned and unallocated.
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Well I missed that part. But, what I did was follow your initial recommendation.
I created the recovery CD using the old backup 90gb drive with TI on it.
Then I replaced the 90 with the new 360gb drive (that had the bogus cloning done to it earlier).
Then I booted the laptop with the Recovery CD and ran the clone process from the 360gb drive that was messed up (the laptop would not boot with this drive, gave a "disc read error".
The newly cloned drive runs perfectly.
Why I was able to clone a bad drive is beyond me but everything works fine now.
Thanks so much for your help GroverH !!!!!!!
Paul
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