Cloning Western Digital Hard Drive

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Hi:

I have a Sony desktop VGC-RA716G running Windows MCE (2005) with a 250 GB
Western Digital hard drive model WDC WD2500BB.

I am cloning this hard drive with an exact duplicate hard drive using
Western Digital Data Lifeguard Tools software version 11.2 Windows.

I have cloned the master HD C;\ to the secondary slave HD F:\ twice and
each time I get a notice that 3-4 insignificant files were not copied. One
was a log file etc.and none appear applicable the problem I have with MS
Word 2002 after each clone.

Everything is fine with the exception of MS Word 2002 each time is
corrupted when I try and open a .doc file. I uninstall Word 2002 and
reinstall it and the cloned HD is fine.

I wonder if there is something proprietary with Word 2002 that causes this
each time? Just strange that the only problem that I have is Word 2002.

Thanks
 
You failed to mention what software your using to clone, are you sure your
cloning or are you imaging?
 
I am cloning my entire HD and everything is fine with the exception of Word
2002 each time that I clone.After cloning I immediately shut down and
configure the cloned drive as the Master with the old Master not even
connected.

I am using the spare cloned drive as a back up if ever I need it. The new
WD HD was only $60 and I figured this was the cheapest and easiest way to
have a complete back up ready to go if needed.

Thanks


You failed to mention what software your using to clone, are you sure your
cloning or are you imaging?
 
Then I would suggest you have a bad sector on the old HD, somewhere that word
has saved some files at , thus a corrupted word.
 
I have no problems with Word 2002 or any application on my old HD. If I
had problems with it then I could expect problems with cloned HD; however,
that is not the case.Also error checking of old HD indicates no problems.


Then I would suggest you have a bad sector on the old HD, somewhere that
word
has saved some files at , thus a corrupted word.
 
Just let me throw this out there, as may be applicable somehow. Until
around 6 months ago, was last using Trend Micro Antispyware (standalone
product). Was using DI 7.0 for imaging the XP partition. When restoring
the image file, found that the Trend Micro Antispyware showed not being
registered. I found if I closed the antispyware, imaged, then restored,
problem did not occur. There may be some relationship to your problem.

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ColTom2 said:
I am cloning my entire HD and everything is fine with the exception of
Word 2002 each time that I clone.After cloning I immediately shut down and
configure the cloned drive as the Master with the old Master not even
connected.

I am using the spare cloned drive as a back up if ever I need it. The new
WD HD was only $60 and I figured this was the cheapest and easiest way to
have a complete back up ready to go if needed.
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sgopus said:
Then I would suggest you have a bad sector on the old HD, somewhere that
word has saved some files at , thus a corrupted word.
Click to expand...


ColTom2 said:
I have no problems with Word 2002 or any application on my old HD. If I
had problems with it then I could expect problems with cloned HD; however,
that is not the case.Also error checking of old HD indicates no problems.
Click to expand...


ColTom2:
First of all, count your blessings that you were able to achieve a bootable,
basically functional clone using the WD disk-cloning utility. It's not
unusual that while that utility will usually create a functional clone of
the source HDD, in a fair amount of instances data corruption and/or data
loss of one sort or another will occur following the disk-cloning operation.
In some instances the problem is relatively minor as in the case you
experienced; in other cases the result is an unbootable dysfunctional HDD
(the recipient of the clone).

In any event, now that you have two hard drives, consider purchasing a
commercial disk-cloning (or disk-imaging) program that you can use on a
routine basis for comprehensive backup purposes.
Anna
 
Anna said:
ColTom2:
First of all, count your blessings that you were able to achieve a bootable,
basically functional clone using the WD disk-cloning utility. It's not
unusual that while that utility will usually create a functional clone of
the source HDD, in a fair amount of instances data corruption and/or data
loss of one sort or another will occur following the disk-cloning operation.
In some instances the problem is relatively minor as in the case you
experienced; in other cases the result is an unbootable dysfunctional HDD
(the recipient of the clone).

In any event, now that you have two hard drives, consider purchasing a
commercial disk-cloning (or disk-imaging) program that you can use on a
routine basis for comprehensive backup purposes.
Anna
Click to expand...
Been through this disk-cloning for a few years, and would
like to comment on Anna's suggestion. I endorse it 100%.

I used to use Drive Image 7. It required a lot of TLC and
a special routine to copy and then Restore to create a
bootable clone. Symantec took over PowerQuest and using
Drive Image 7 as a base, converted it to GHOST 10 and I
got that as part of Norton System Works 2006 Premier. It
had improvements over DI-7 in that it is usable as an onboard
system. Now they have newer upgrades of GHOST, and have
a standalone Save & Restore which is really the same thing
with simplifications. The full cloning capability is built
into that S & R, which is included in their big package,
named Norton System Works 2008 Premier.

Those all cost money......but in this NG somebody suggested
the free version of Acronis True Image, which does the same
cloning operation, maybe a little faster, with its own
peculiarities. And it gets you out of the need to work with
Symantec, which earned a solid reputation for being hard to
work with over the years. But Symantec has improved their
Tech Support tremendously, and if you contact them for help
nowadays, they favor their free on-line chat, which has worked
beautifully for me in recent months. They even take control of
your desktop and fix everything while you watch.
 
Thanks for all the informative replies!

ColTom2


Hi:

I have a Sony desktop VGC-RA716G running Windows MCE (2005) with a 250 GB
Western Digital hard drive model WDC WD2500BB.

I am cloning this hard drive with an exact duplicate hard drive using
Western Digital Data Lifeguard Tools software version 11.2 Windows.

I have cloned the master HD C;\ to the secondary slave HD F:\ twice and
each time I get a notice that 3-4 insignificant files were not copied. One
was a log file etc.and none appear applicable the problem I have with MS
Word 2002 after each clone.

Everything is fine with the exception of MS Word 2002 each time is
corrupted when I try and open a .doc file. I uninstall Word 2002 and
reinstall it and the cloned HD is fine.

I wonder if there is something proprietary with Word 2002 that causes this
each time? Just strange that the only problem that I have is Word 2002.

Thanks
 
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