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Prepairing new drive for cloning-Receiver-drive
Have prepaired new drive in windows xp. It will serve as receiver of cloning a winxp-bootdrive. Its now saying: Online dynamic, unallocated.
Should i set partition and change to primary/base? formatting?
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Dynamic is not what I would ever use. But if you think you need it. . . .
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/libr...=vs.85%29.aspx
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Why did windows set it to dynamic automatically? It seems to be default before allocating space, setting partition(s). Thats what i will do now.
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Drive is now basic and has no drive-letter. Which ist critical if one does not remember. drive will not be shown up in "computer"(arbeitsplatz).
Does it need to be formatted for cloning-process? will use clonezilla 2tb to 2tb.
btw: when cloning 500gb to 1tb it did not expand. is 1:1 now. what was wrong then?
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Go into diskmanagement and take care of the drive.
You can partiton format and assign drive letters.
https://support.microsoft.com/kb/309000/EN-US
German
https://support.microsoft.com/kb/309000/DE
No need for the added tools.
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No need to assign drive-letter? Is formatting needed before cloning?
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Drive letter will be assigned when it is picked up.
The clone will format the hdd.
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picked up= cloned, rigth? thats what i have seen with the other, external one. old letter used. that simplifies a lot. will check it out to be sure. will now clone on my slow p4 with no bootdrive.
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Cannot clone on old p4 without bootdrive. unformatted drive unseen at start. should i try with formatted one? Or: since i have only two sata plus ide i could try out with ide-sata-adapter.
last time i accidentally used usb on docking-station. p4 has no esata. maybe good to add pci-esata-card.
Or installing dual-core duplicate which i already have but not complete. would cost time and money. above all when i would also like win7 there.
better waiting for x99 and consumer-16gb-sticks.
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You can format it , but remember XP does not have SATA drivers in it.
Best get Win 7 asap, it is getting hard to find that OS.
And OEM is :
OEM versions of Windows 7 are identical to Full License Retail versions except for the following:
- OEM versions do not offer any free Microsoft direct support from Microsoft support personnel
- OEM licenses are tied to the very first computer you install and activate it on
- OEM versions allow all hardware upgrades except for an upgrade to a different model motherboard
- OEM versions cannot be used to directly upgrade from an older Windows operating system
Now, you know why I have so many desktops, so I can always have access to the internet with one or two.
Yesterday:
Installed Win 7
Intalled AV
Installed IE11
Installed about 190 updates
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Since on P4 "clone"-drive hang i did format it finanally with no chance on that pc. No matter in whihc configuration. on ide with adapter. or second-drive with no boot-system-
2. on dualcore i could make clonezilla and trueimage run. trueimage since i saw errors with clonezilla. but trueimage also could not clone, many write-errors at the beginning.
so i had to give up.
i still have an original boot drive but that one is more messed up, no boot anymore. my mistakes.....
btw: has nothing to do with winxp.
3. i also have multiple desktops(3) but they are too slow. multiple drives on two winxp-pcs. just removed backup-systempartition to get more space for defraggler to work properly. success!
4. since that clone-drive is now messed up, can i format or is dban needed?
Thank you very much
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You sure can. Dban is what I would do.
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I could finally clone the working systempartition with trueimage but not directly. full cloning of harddrive with multiple partitions failed. remember: second partition D is overlapping C. had to do a backup first. clonezilla totally failed to clone. didnt try backup there. when i succeeded the first time i found out it would be better running defraggler first. It was a sort of "Zangengeburt". Sometime trueimage did not do what it should do. Eighter it has mistakes or i didnt yet understand it.
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Easy to goof as most folks do not clone each partition all at once like that.
Do disk clean up and defrag before I clone or image any hdd.
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didnt want to mess things up further by defragging systempartition. I still have an overlapping second partition D with no data-access and no help from testdiskforum. In bootitbM-forum of terabytes they kicked my complicated thread out. Which was a good decision. The only real successs with testdisk was finding data on an external drive and succesfull backing it up, except videofiles. they seem to be quickly defragged.
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