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**blah789** · 10-06-2008, 02:59 PM

I think you do need to have the other drive formatted because xxclone copies file by file (aka it needs a file system on the destination to write to - it won't create one for you).

Is the destination drive new and blank? Or does it have data on it? If it's new and blank, to format it, go to disk management (start, run, diskmgmt.msc), then right click on the box that says disk 1, disk 2 or whatever and pick initialize, then right click on the unpartitioned space (black) and create a partition there. You'll get the option to format it too. It's good practice to do a full format the first time (could take a while - 3+ hours on a 500GB drive), but if you're in a hurry you can do quick format (20 seconds).

10-06-2008, 02:59 PM	#6 (permalink)
blah789 TSF Enthusiast Join Date: Aug 2008 Posts: 2,292 OS: Windows 2000 SP4 and Windows XP SP3	Re: Moving data from one Hard Drive to another? I think you do need to have the other drive formatted because xxclone copies file by file (aka it needs a file system on the destination to write to - it won't create one for you). Is the destination drive new and blank? Or does it have data on it? If it's new and blank, to format it, go to disk management (start, run, diskmgmt.msc), then right click on the box that says disk 1, disk 2 or whatever and pick initialize, then right click on the unpartitioned space (black) and create a partition there. You'll get the option to format it too. It's good practice to do a full format the first time (could take a while - 3+ hours on a 500GB drive), but if you're in a hurry you can do quick format (20 seconds).