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Bob Weissman
What is the secret to cloning a laptop hard drive for Windows XP?
My HP Pavilion notebook's drive is starting to die, but still mostly
runs. I would like to clone it exactly onto an identical drive and
replace it.
I have tried DriveImage 7.0.3, which almost works - it appears to make
an exact copy, but the new drive will not boot. It just sits there
like a lump at boot time. I have tried all the various DriveImage
parameters, and none of them get me a bootable disk. I've looked
through the MS knowledge base, to no avail.
Is there some magic thing I need to do outside of DriveImage to make
my new hard drive bootable?
Some better software I should use instead of DriveImage? Ghost,
perhaps?
I need to copy via a USB or FireWire connection; I cannot have both
ATA drives physically inserted in my laptop at the same time.
Thanks for any advice,
- Bob
My HP Pavilion notebook's drive is starting to die, but still mostly
runs. I would like to clone it exactly onto an identical drive and
replace it.
I have tried DriveImage 7.0.3, which almost works - it appears to make
an exact copy, but the new drive will not boot. It just sits there
like a lump at boot time. I have tried all the various DriveImage
parameters, and none of them get me a bootable disk. I've looked
through the MS knowledge base, to no avail.
Is there some magic thing I need to do outside of DriveImage to make
my new hard drive bootable?
Some better software I should use instead of DriveImage? Ghost,
perhaps?
I need to copy via a USB or FireWire connection; I cannot have both
ATA drives physically inserted in my laptop at the same time.
Thanks for any advice,
- Bob