Clone Recovery Partition?

I'm assuming you mean after you have created an image you will get a new drive and then image that drive from the file you created earlier? If yes then yes you select the same menu option but this time you will go from image to device or partition.
 
ponder said:
I'm assuming you mean after you have created an image you will get a new drive and then image that drive from the file you created earlier? If yes then yes you select the same menu option but this time you will go from image to device or partition.
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Oh I thought it would clone from the one hard drive to the other.

I see the difference now, if I do it your way it makes an image file, where can I put the image file?, can I put it on a flash drive? I have a 32GB flash drive.
 
NomNom said:
Oh I thought it would clone from the one hard drive to the other.

I see the difference now, if I do it your way it makes an image file, where can I put the image file?, can I put it on a flash drive? I have a 32GB flash drive.
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Well if you will have both the old and new disk with you then you can clone from drive to drive or partition to partition. I though you might be sending the old disk off as a warranty claim.

I would not put an image file or partition on a flash drive, I don't trust them. External hard drive or another hard drive would be fine.
 
ponder said:
Well if you will have both the old and new disk with you then you can clone from drive to drive or partition to partition. I though you might be sending the old disk off as a warranty claim.

I would not put an image file or partition on a flash drive, I don't trust them. External hard drive or another hard drive would be fine.
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Cool thanks I will do it from hard drive to hard drive. I can't send the hard drive for warranty as Western Digital says it has no limited warranty because it came with the laptop.
 
NomNom said:
So I've run this Western Digital Lifeguard program again, but this time I have connected the drive to my Pc and this is what it reported:

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It would be interesting to see what are results of full surface scan. SMART is useless again, I am not surprised. Question is whether WD diagnostic software reports that there is no more spare sectors, or there is still some small amount available.

If spare sector table is fully used (no more spare sectors available for remapping), you could see number of remapping candidates which generate delays (500ms or more).

I would like to see if Seagate diagnostic program honestly reported similiar condition with SMART almost perfect.
 
Why is isn't or is it possible to remove my 3tb external from it's casing and plug it in to the internal sata ports and still be able to see or find/use the data already stored without needing to format it.

I've been trying to do this for 2 days and eventually gave up and put the drive back in the case.
 
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buyeye said:
Why is isn't or is it possible to remove my 3tb external from it's casing and plug it in to the internal sata ports and still be able to see or find/use the data already stored without needing to format it.

I've been trying to do this for 2 days and eventually gave up and put the drive back in the case.
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What file format is the drive using on the partition - should be possible if the partition is something your O/S can read (are you using Windows). What external drive is it (make and model). You may also have to make the drive active to see the contents.
 
buyeye said:
Why is isn't or is it possible to remove my 3tb external from it's casing and plug it in to the internal sata ports and still be able to see or find/use the data already stored without needing to format it.

I've been trying to do this for 2 days and eventually gave up and put the drive back in the case.
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Jesus will guide you :D

You don't provide a lot of info...
 
Clone with Acronis Backup & Recovery 11.5. Makes a full image of everything, including factory recovery partition.

With Acronis SecureZone you can create your own hidden recovery partition of your boot partition, and recover anytime to your last ASZ image. All my systems have a recovery partition on the system drive.
 
While I wait for the new hard drive, I have pulled out a 80GB hard drive to test this whole cloning business.

Basically I connect the 80GB to a enclosure and connect it via USB to the laptop. I then boot Clonezilla off a USB flash drive and select the part to local part option because I just want to clone the recovery partition.

So after 10mins I put the 80GB in the laptop and attempt to start the recovery, it doesn't work it doesn't pick up that it's even there.

I have formatted the 80GB into 2 parts a 13GB NTFS partition for the recovery and I have formatted thhe rest to NTFS, I didn't give them drive letters.

What am I doing wrong? :confused:


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Say now I just install my Windows 7 on the new hard drive could I use the serial key under the laptop to register it? Given that it's the same edition?



Made a recording of the cloning process for you to better identify what I am doing wrong:

[video=youtube;fb65zvEgBss]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fb65zvEgBss[/video]
 
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buyeye said:
its a Seagate goflex 3tb that is full of jpg, mp4 and mp3's.
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I think ponder meant details of your enclosure. If they are encrypting and you connect it to SATA controller, you will see pseudorandom data except the first sector.
 
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NomNom said:
Anyone have an idea what I am doing wrong? Looks like I will be getting the replacement hard drive today.
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I think you may have to clone the whole drive instead of just the recovery partition. By just cloning the partition you are probably missing the master boot record or something else that it needs to boot into the recovery partition.
 
InvisibleJim said:
I think you may have to clone the whole drive instead of just the recovery partition. By just cloning the partition you are probably missing the master boot record or something else that it needs to boot into the recovery partition.
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I'm hoping this is the reason because I really need to do this but I haven't been able to get it right by just cloning the recovery partition.
 
InvisibleJim said:
I think you may have to clone the whole drive instead of just the recovery partition. By just cloning the partition you are probably missing the master boot record or something else that it needs to boot into the recovery partition.
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Unfortunately it still didn't work, gave me some windows error when I tried to load up the recovery partition.

So I'm going to install the Windows off a disc I have and try to use the serial on the bottom of the laptop.

Update: After going into the Windows installation and deleting the 100MB boot partition and the normal partition the recovery partition now works!! So happy now :D
 
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