Re: OT - Cloning and CopyWipe

Robert Bonomi wrote:
In article <00a482e7$0$15665$c3e8da3@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
bill horne <redydog@xxxxxxx> wrote:
Robert Bonomi wrote:
In article <00a2da06$0$23916$c3e8da3@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
bill horne <redydog@xxxxxxx> wrote:
Robert Bonomi wrote:
In article <00a339c9$0$6863$c3e8da3@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
bill horne <redydog@xxxxxxx> 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.
This _won't_ work, *IF* the disk geometry in the MBR (master boot
record, the absolute 1st sector on the disk) has been written
with the geometry info from the 80 gig drive. Windows (and
MS-DOS before it) *believes*
that geometry information if it is present, and won't look at
anything else.

'unallocated' space is space that is not part of a partition in
MBR,
but _IS_
shown in the disk geometry recorded there. Garbage the disk
geometry data, it is -very- hard to get anything (MS-based, that
is) to 'see' the full disk capacity.
If that is all so, why can I CopyWipe my disk to a larger disk, and
get the original disk plus the remainder of the new disk in
"unallocated" space?

There are the proverbial "forty leven" ways to copy the contents of
one disk to a different one. If you use the *WRONG* one (a
byte-by-byte copy of the _entire_ physical disk -- not a copy of a
single 'partition' on the disk), you get this problem.

I do a Raw Sector Copy with CopyWipe and don't get the problem.


As long as you copy a -partition- (what the drive letter belongs to),
you *won't* have a problem. Copy the entire drive instead of just the
partition, and problems are virtually certain.

copying the entire drive is intended to let you copy _multiple_
partitions (drive letters) in a single operation. It -relies_ on the
drives being of the same size/capacity. When that assumption is
violated, sh*t happens.

I've *seen* this problem before. more than once. Going back to the
days when disks were a thousand times smaller. :)

CopyWipe is a cloning program, not a copy program.

--
Frank Howell


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