asked on Using Macrium Reflect Free to mirror an old drive to a new
About a year ago I took a defective drive out of a Windows 8.1 or 10 laptop (laptop was still basically functioning, but some bad sectors) and mirrored it to a new and, I think, larger hard drive. It either asked/was told to ignore bad sectors, and the image worked perfectly.
I'm trying to remember if it was Macrium Refect Free that I used. Does anyone know if this product will mirror an old to new drive, where the new is larger than the old? (The old drive had two or three partitions as I recall, which was no problem).\
I'm trying to remember if it was Macrium Refect Free that I used. Does anyone know if this product will mirror an old to new drive, where the new is larger than the old? (The old drive had two or three partitions as I recall, which was no problem).\
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Joe Winograd
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Thanks Russ and Joe. I'm dealing with a drive with SMART failures - hoping it works out!
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It hasn't been upgraded because it doesn't need it. It's simple and effective.
ha - you believe that in an environment that changes about 50% every year?
Low level hard drive technology hasn't changed at all in over 10 years. Once you go below the interface protocol it's all the same.
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Macrium Reflect would not complete, and said that they recommended CHKDSK with repair, running as many times as necessary until it makes it through. Basically it completes 10%, with errors, then just quits to the command prompt as if it were done - no termination errors. It will not image however.
imo your options are : run HDDRegenerator to fix the drive,
or use another imaging tool, like the free paragon soft :
http://www.paragon-software.com/home/br-free/download.html
or use another imaging tool, like the free paragon soft :
http://www.paragon-software.com/home/br-free/download.html
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If CHKDSK will not complete I would be surprised if a disk imaging tool of any kind would work, would you agree?
if your comment is about HDDRegenerator - then you're wrong; it is not a disk imaging tool - it repairs bad sectors, and makes drives usable
i would not give up easily, and try the free paragon soft for making an image (you don't loose anything by trying) - and they all use different ways for making the image
http://www.paragon-software.com/home/br-free/download.html
i would not give up easily, and try the free paragon soft for making an image (you don't loose anything by trying) - and they all use different ways for making the image
http://www.paragon-software.com/home/br-free/download.html
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Thanks all. After I failed to mirror the drive I decided to install the OS on a new HD rather than try the other tools mentioned (though I am definitely going to try them soon), as the client had a good Carbonite backup. All up and running now.
Dave,
Glad to hear that the client is up and running now — great news! Thanks for the update. Regards, Joe
Glad to hear that the client is up and running now — great news! Thanks for the update. Regards, Joe