Re: OT - Cloning and CopyWipe

Bruce S wrote:
bill horne wrote:
Bruce S wrote:
richard wrote:
On Sun, 12 Jul 2009 11:32:17 -0700, "Bruce S"
<bruce.snell@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

For all those people who use Copywipe for cloning their hard
drives, I have a question.

I bought a 500 gig hard drive to replace the 80 gig drive in the
laptop. I ran CopyWipe for DOS from a CD on startup. It went to
work, and a couple hours later told me the drive had been copied. I installed the drive, and it still only shows 80 gigs, not the 500
gigs it is supposed to be.

So, is that normal?

If not what might I have done wrong? (I have tried it three times
now.)

Could the fact that I never ran Fdisk be the problem? (Does Fdisk
even exist anymore?)

Help!!!!

Bruce (Thank you)

When you partition the new drive, you should partition the first
section to 82 gigs. Not 80. The extra room for any information the
puter puts in the partition.
Thanks for the suggestion, but now the problem is that since the
computer recognized it as 80 gigs, instead of the 500 gigs it really
is, XP refuses to see it as anything other than 80 gigs. And XP
does not have DOS anymore, so no fdisk to go in and start over
again. If I could get the computer to recognize the drive as 500
gigs, perhaps I could put some of the other ideas to work.

Bruce
Rightclick on My Computer, Select Manage, then select Disk Management.

XP Disk Manager should show the other 400+ gigs on that disk as
"unallocated". With Disk Manager, you can create a partition out of that 400+ gigs, make it a logical drive, assign it a drive letter, and
format it. Do that by rightclicking on that unallocated block and
follow the menus.

Or you can find a disk partitioner that will resize partitions, and
then resize that 80 gig partition to 500 gigs.

As I said in another post, this is exactly where the problem comes from. When I go to the Disk Management utility it shows the drive, but even after deleting the partitions and trying to start over, all it shows is 80 gb.

CopyWipe doesn't care what the disk looks like when it does its thing, so deleting partitions does nothing.

It completely fails to see the other 420 gb. If there is a way to get the Disk Management utility to re-examine the drive and find the rest of it, my problem would be solved.

I presume you're booting the machine from the CD that you burned from the the makedisk.exe file that came with CopyWipe?

If so, try the Raw Sector Copy option. Whenever I use this, I end up with an active partition the size of the original disk, with "unallocated" for the rest of the new disk.

Here's what mine looks like after doing a "Raw..." clone, and then making a partition out of what was originally "unallocated":
http://i28.tinypic.com/18n7f9.jpg
The "free space" in that pic was "unallocated" after the cloning - which I then manipulated with XP Disk Manager. I can continue with Disk Mangager to make a logical drive out of that "free space", assign a drive letter, and then format it. I haven't done that yet, because I'm a long way from needing the space.

The disk in that pic is a 250 gig disk after being cloned from a 160 gig disk, and then using XP to make a partition out of what was originally "unallocated".

I used CopyWipe booted from the burned CD, and then cloned with "Raw Sector Copy".

I have reached the point where if I could get it to show all 500 gb, I would give up on the clone, and simply copy files until I get what I was looking for - a drop in replacement.

You can't get a bootable (drop-in) replacement by simply copying files.


--
bill
Theory don't mean squat if it don't work.
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