Author Topic: Dying hard drive. (Read 1911 times)

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

Tony · « **Reply #1 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/

1958steveflying · « **Reply #2 on:** December 14, 2012, 10:57:35 PM »

Thanks Tony.

1958steveflying · « **Reply #3 on:** December 16, 2012, 10:15:04 PM »

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

Tony · « **Reply #4 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

1958steveflying · « **Reply #5 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.

Tony · « **Reply #6 on:** December 16, 2012, 11:03:49 PM »

Knowledge? I just click stuff until it works!

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