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Title: Dying hard drive.
Post by: 1958steveflying on December 14, 2012, 05:15:28 PM

My desktop pc hard drive's death is imminent, while I'm not a pc wizard I am not totally daft.
 My thoughts have come to putting a second new Hd in the pc and cloning it from the original.
  Any advise appreciated

Title: Re: Dying hard drive.
Post by: Tony on December 14, 2012, 08:30:06 PM

Hi Steve, if you are confident enough you could try http://clonezilla.org/ and make a bootable USB stick to copy your old drive to the new one.

http://arga.wordpress.com/2010/04/24/how-to-properly-clone-a-windows-7-system-partition-with-clonezilla/

Title: Re: Dying hard drive.
Post by: 1958steveflying on December 14, 2012, 10:57:35 PM

Thanks Tony.

Title: Re: Dying hard drive.
Post by: 1958steveflying on December 16, 2012, 10:15:04 PM

Sorted with the help of Acronis  true image... not without hassle though ! ! !

Title: Re: Dying hard drive.
Post by: Tony on December 16, 2012, 10:24:20 PM

Just about to try clonezilla on a disk here, after backing up crucial information.

Don't want to mix up source and destination disks!

Glad you got yours sorted :)

Title: Re: Dying hard drive.
Post by: 1958steveflying on December 16, 2012, 11:02:35 PM

For some reason it would not take the system reserved partition info over which were the boot files and windows would not let them be copied... Stretched me a bit but got it in the end ! !

  With your knowledge I doubt you will have issue's.

Title: Re: Dying hard drive.
Post by: Tony on December 16, 2012, 11:03:49 PM

Knowledge?  I just click stuff until it works!