D
Derek
Dear Group,
Please can you help? I'm trying to install a new hard drive into a Dell PC
which has 2 hard drives, the primary is failing. Will xcopy clone
everything from the old hard drive to the new one? Would use the hard drive
manufacturer's tool, but original drives are Samsung and new drive is
hitachi, neither of which provide a "clone" utility, unlike Maxtor, Seagate
etc. Will never get Hitachi or Samsung until they do provide the utility.
Further info:
Windows XP Pro SP3,
Dell Dimension 5150,
2 x SATA 80GB Samsing hard drives, the primary is failing, secondary
contains Acronis True Image backup files.
New hard drive is a Hitachi 250GB SATA. Hitachi HDD is a pain because
Hitachi doesn't do a download utility which will clone the old disk (unlike
Seagate, Maxtor etc).
Acronis True Image - this on the failing hard drive. Backups have been done
sometimes on to the 2nd hard drive, I can see some TIB files there.
If xcopy fails then I plan to install Win XP Pro, Acronis True Image onto
the new 250GB hard drive, and then use Acronis to "restore".
Problems - failing hard drive will not let me login to windows. Getting
"winlogon.exe" failed, ODBC32.dll, ole32.dll, and then MSGINA.dll failure so
it won't authenticate logon, only offers to restart. F8 options are not
fixing this. Recovery Console is asking for a password, the user says there
is no password. Maybe msgina.dll and other files are getting trashed and
user info, so logon will no longer work?
Is there a better way?
Please can you help? I'm trying to install a new hard drive into a Dell PC
which has 2 hard drives, the primary is failing. Will xcopy clone
everything from the old hard drive to the new one? Would use the hard drive
manufacturer's tool, but original drives are Samsung and new drive is
hitachi, neither of which provide a "clone" utility, unlike Maxtor, Seagate
etc. Will never get Hitachi or Samsung until they do provide the utility.
Further info:
Windows XP Pro SP3,
Dell Dimension 5150,
2 x SATA 80GB Samsing hard drives, the primary is failing, secondary
contains Acronis True Image backup files.
New hard drive is a Hitachi 250GB SATA. Hitachi HDD is a pain because
Hitachi doesn't do a download utility which will clone the old disk (unlike
Seagate, Maxtor etc).
Acronis True Image - this on the failing hard drive. Backups have been done
sometimes on to the 2nd hard drive, I can see some TIB files there.
If xcopy fails then I plan to install Win XP Pro, Acronis True Image onto
the new 250GB hard drive, and then use Acronis to "restore".
Problems - failing hard drive will not let me login to windows. Getting
"winlogon.exe" failed, ODBC32.dll, ole32.dll, and then MSGINA.dll failure so
it won't authenticate logon, only offers to restart. F8 options are not
fixing this. Recovery Console is asking for a password, the user says there
is no password. Maybe msgina.dll and other files are getting trashed and
user info, so logon will no longer work?
Is there a better way?