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linda w
I bought a new hard disk -- same size but more reliable and almost 2x
faster, so I
wanted to xchange it in for my system disk so my swap an system files would
be on it -- maybe keep the older for through-away stuff since it seems
to develop an
occasional disk error -- isolated by WinXP in 'bad-sectors', but
experience tells me
that when bad-sections become visible to the OS, the HD's internal SMART
corrections
have failed and the drive is nearing the end of its useful life.
Problem is -- how do I Xfer the OS? I can boot under linux and do a
diskcopy of
the whole thing, but when I try to boot, WinXP throws a blue screen and
a message
faster than I can see it, and reboots. On coming back up, it says it
needs to
run fsck, and it basically says the entire disk is corrupt and turns
about 30-50%
of the directories into files! I've tried it a couple different ways.
Berfore trying
anything, I made the miserable attempt to save all using the msbackup
program.
Unfortunately, after a restore of all, it just reboots and hangs -- not
exactly
what I'd want after a complete restore of my system disk.
I guess my first mistake was in trusting the MS backup program?
Oddly enough, I can bring the alternate drive online as a plugin disk.
It seems as
a plugin- all the files look fine. Now things seem doubly screwed --
the original
disk is now corrupt though I don't know how -- but it seems which ever disk
I put in as drive C looks "corrupt", while whatever disk is inserted as
drive "D" appears "ok"....
Of course I still have the "full backup" which I can resture and have my
system
lockup on reboot. That makes no sense. It talks about an Automated System
Recovery, but my system has no floppy (many newer ones don't, or hasn't
MS heard).
How to do such a simple thing? It's a 60 Gig HD, 25 Gig to Windows,
though I
want to increase that since I'm using windows more. I have to upgrade
my linux,
and I was going to a reinstall on that since it allows me to resize Win
partitions,
but that still leaves my win partition with the problem of making it
bootabable.
Help?
Linda...
faster, so I
wanted to xchange it in for my system disk so my swap an system files would
be on it -- maybe keep the older for through-away stuff since it seems
to develop an
occasional disk error -- isolated by WinXP in 'bad-sectors', but
experience tells me
that when bad-sections become visible to the OS, the HD's internal SMART
corrections
have failed and the drive is nearing the end of its useful life.
Problem is -- how do I Xfer the OS? I can boot under linux and do a
diskcopy of
the whole thing, but when I try to boot, WinXP throws a blue screen and
a message
faster than I can see it, and reboots. On coming back up, it says it
needs to
run fsck, and it basically says the entire disk is corrupt and turns
about 30-50%
of the directories into files! I've tried it a couple different ways.
Berfore trying
anything, I made the miserable attempt to save all using the msbackup
program.
Unfortunately, after a restore of all, it just reboots and hangs -- not
exactly
what I'd want after a complete restore of my system disk.
I guess my first mistake was in trusting the MS backup program?
Oddly enough, I can bring the alternate drive online as a plugin disk.
It seems as
a plugin- all the files look fine. Now things seem doubly screwed --
the original
disk is now corrupt though I don't know how -- but it seems which ever disk
I put in as drive C looks "corrupt", while whatever disk is inserted as
drive "D" appears "ok"....
Of course I still have the "full backup" which I can resture and have my
system
lockup on reboot. That makes no sense. It talks about an Automated System
Recovery, but my system has no floppy (many newer ones don't, or hasn't
MS heard).
How to do such a simple thing? It's a 60 Gig HD, 25 Gig to Windows,
though I
want to increase that since I'm using windows more. I have to upgrade
my linux,
and I was going to a reinstall on that since it allows me to resize Win
partitions,
but that still leaves my win partition with the problem of making it
bootabable.
Help?
Linda...