Partition info migration

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Hi!

My HDD is in near death stage because of the heat, so I plan to replace it
woth the identiccal model and better cooling and I want to preserve my data.
It's to big to image it as a device so I plan to image only the system and
application partition and everthing else I'll just copy.

I want identical partition setup on the new one ande preserved boot menu. Is
there a way to copy Master boot information, partition table, and partition
boots to the new HDD? Very long ago I copied partition table info from one
HDD to the other using old DOS mode Norton Disk Doctor... is there any other
solution?


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My HDD is in near death stage because of the heat, so I plan to replace it
woth the identiccal model and better cooling and I want to preserve my data.
It's to big to image it as a device
Click to expand...

Why ?
Too large to image to a file I guess, but you CAN directly clone the
old
disk to a new one, including MBR and all ...
so I plan to image only the system and
application partition and everthing else I'll just copy.

I want identical partition setup on the new one ande preserved boot menu. Is
there a way to copy Master boot information, partition table, and partition
boots to the new HDD? Very long ago I copied partition table info from one
HDD to the other using old DOS mode Norton Disk Doctor... is there any other
Click to expand...

You can extract all that info to a file using my DFSee utility,
and restore it to the new disk from the file.

However, if you really have two identical disks, I would simply use
"CLONE"
to make the 2nd an identical copy in one go, including all data.

Using DFSee 6.10 or newer:

File -> Open disk to work with -> ... pick NEW disk .. (2 ?)
Actions -> Clone from whole disk -> ... pick OLD disk (1 ?)

This will make a copy of the OLD to the new disk ...

Using a bootable CD with DFSee on it makes it real easy ...


Regards, JvW
 
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