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Advice Cloning a SATI HDD - containing XP Vista as souce - to new - but using USB drive frames for each and Windows 7 on laptop?

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My HDD - Windows XP Vista - just died - I had cloned it using Arconis 2010 just over a year ago - get Get_Pool_error and blue screen of death -

My question is this - (also I am willing to upgrade to Arconis True Image 2012 ) - but currently am a registered 2010 plus pack owner -

I am not sure that the issue that caused the HDD problem in fact is caused by the old HP pavilion 6000 laptop itself which by the way has two internal HDD's - in the past when I cloned I booted from the 'old C drive' in the drive 1 location in the laptop, removed the 'D' drive and put the new drive that was to be the clone in the location 2 in the laptop -

I am thinking that I might be better served by borrowing a friend's laptop that would have Windows 7 on it and dowloading and activation Arconis True Image 2012 on that machine and then use two SATI USB external drive frames, one having the 'old C drive ' i.e. source of clone and the other the new HDD to be the destination -

my thought is to be sure the 'original C drive' has the absolute minimal possibility of becomming corrupt as I have no HP Windows DVD - they did not come with them - and I have a lot of appications that are all set up and installed and authorized - and do not want to go through havign to install, etc...

would this approach - i.e. fairly new Dell running windows 7 - source of clone a USB mounted SATI drive with XP Vista, and source a new SATI drive in another USB external drive frame? be the best way to do it???

Then use ATI 2012 to clone?

Thank you - just really afraid to toast my only 'original C drive'

I do not have a ATI CD - I downloaded on-line -

also I can not run the XP Vista computer - get blue screen of death - even in SAFE MODE - Get_Pool_Header error quickly displayed and computer shuts off -

Or are you suggesting that I make an image of the 'original C Drive' - then clone from the image??

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Why don't you use the 2010 recovery CD to do a complete disk backup of your current disk onto a USB drive, remove the old disk, and restore the backup onto the new disk?

That will make sure that nothing can go wrong with your old disk.

I do not have a ATI CD - I downloaded on-line -

also I can not run the XP Vista computer - get blue screen of death - even in SAFE MODE - Get_Pool_Header error quickly displayed and computer shuts off -

Or are you suggesting that I make an image of the 'original C Drive' - using my friend's Windows 7 platform, then clone from the image rather than directly from the drive???

I do not have a ATI CD - I downloaded on-line -

also I can not run the XP Vista computer - get blue screen of death - even in SAFE MODE - Get_Pool_Header error quickly displayed and computer shuts off -

Or are you suggesting that I make an image of the 'original C Drive' - using my friend's Windows 7 platform, then clone from the image rather than directly from the drive???