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hi.
i have a 40gb ide hard drive that is split into two partitions. a 10gb (the windows install) and a 30gb (nothing there). i also have a 10gb hard drive (with nothing on it). i want to clone my 10gb partition on my 40gb drive to the 10gb drive so i have two drives: 10gb for windows and 40gb for data.
i have the professional edition of HDClone to do this, but once the cloning is done (and verified), and i reboot to see if the 10gb drive has the windows install on it, it doesn't boot. i've tried Partition>to>drive, drive>to>drive, partition>to>partition, but nothing works. i hook up the 40gb drive to see whats on the 10gb drive, and it seems that the 10gb drive does have the files on there, but it won't boot for some reason. i compared the boot.ini files and they are exactly the same.
what am i doing wrong? is there any other cloning software out there that could be of more use?
all help is appreciated!
thanks!
No try! Do. Or do not. There is no try.
Not sure about that program.
A partition is not the same as how a system boots. There is a boot area that may or may not have been copied. Also the way ms boots may not work after a clone but all can be fixed. Also you may have to set bios to the correct device and may have to change the active partition.
"Best Practices", Event viewer, host file, perfmon, are in my top 10
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I suggest that you run the Recovery Console and try a 'fixMBR' and a 'fixboot'. It might even require a Repair Install.
Doing a clone from a partition doesn't necessarily get the MBR and boot info as indicated by Jefro.
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I think jefro may have the answer. In order to boot, assumming you have the boot order correct, the drive must be marked as active.
Fdisk can accomplish that if the program you are using can't.
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"could ya recommend any cloning software?"
What brand is the 10GB HDD? HDD manufacturer's have cloning software available at their websites.
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I like G4U but it is real slow and technical.
As above, many hard drives come with or can be downloaded for the hard drives site a good clone or move program.
There are many free programs that use similar linux type of basics. Some boot from usb and pxe even.
Norton Ghost has been around for a while, Acronis is also well thought of.
The problem with all clones you might get a good copy of a bad install.
"Best Practices", Event viewer, host file, perfmon, are in my top 10
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I use SelfImage which is free. I've never used it to clone a hard drive, but a few times I've used it to copy my 7GB C: partition as a file on my 25GB E: partition so that I can experiment with Windows Vista by installing it to the E: partition. If I want to get rid of Vista without affecting my Windows XP install on D:, I boot into XP (since Vista won't let me use SelfImage, even using Run As Administrator) and use SelfImage to rewrite the C: partition with the backup file I made on E:. This completely gets rid of Vista's bootloader and replaces it with XP's. I then delete Vista's OS files on E: manually (but not before I take ownership of Vista's OS files). I've used SelfImage twice to do this and has never failed.
SelfImage claims it can clone a hard drive. Check it out if you want:
http://www.softpedia.com/get/System...
The SelfImage main site appears to be down but Softpedia's page still works.
If your main 40GB hard drive is connected as slave, this may cause the clone to not boot unless it is connected as slave and another hard drive or optical drive is connected as master on the same channel. This is what I've noticed in past experiences.
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