HD Cloning Problems
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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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.
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