andylogan

Hi! I've successfully used xxclone in the past on other machines including Dell.

I just tried it on this one: Dell 5150.

I have installed a 2nd seagate hard drive, formatted and partitioned it with DiskWizard. Windows and xxclone both recognized it just fine.

I now have:
C: (original drive)
D: (new drive partition - backup of C:)
E: (new drive partition- data portion)


Used xxclone from C: to the D: successfully, used alternate wallpaper, made it bootable (3 check marks), made the quick boot diskette.

When I restart and try to boot with the quick boot diskette it gives me the option as to which drive to boot from as usual, I select the d:1 p:1 ...

then it just stops...

Any suggestions would be appreciated!

Andy

linderman

check in windows disk management / verify the partition on the new drive that is going to boot is marked as active


to enter DM

right click on my computer / select manage from the menu / then select disk management from the left pane of the console which appears


then in the right pane

look for the chunks of the new drive / make sure the partition you want to boot on the new drive is active

andylogan

Hi Joe,

Thanks for your reply.

It looks like it's active. Here's the screen cap of my disk management:

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linderman

ok


lets do a recap of the cloning process


after you cloned your C drive to the new drive; then do a reboot

did you get the "congratulations you have succesfully cloned " yada yada after the first boot with the new clone ??????

look in your bios and verify boot order; make sure the new drive appears as an option in your boot order

trying using the F8 or F12 key during start-up >>>>> this will bring up a boot loader menu; from there select the new clone

post back with your findings

worse case; try cloning again ??????????

andylogan

Hi Joe,

This is what I did to recap:
1. I cloned C: to D:
2. I made a quick boot diskette
3. I used the quick boot diskette to choose the d:1,p:1 target to use that to boot - this is where it freezes - doesn't boot into windows. Usually when successful it boots into windows and gives me that successfully cloned message.

4. I have also tried recloning.
5. I looked in the bios boot order as well - what I haven't done is used F12 to use it to boot from there (and not the quick boot diskette). So I might try that later when I have access to the computer.

What's weird are those two extra little partitions on the C: drive - have you seen those before?

Thanks for your help so far!

Andy

linderman

I have seen them often on manufactured PC's

usually for recovery partitions ?


try the booting from F8 or F12 not sure which your mobo will use ????



I think those "other" partitions are confusing the quick boot diskette

andylogan

Hi!

So I checked it out:

1. The bios doesn't show the new drive as a boot order option: all it has is CD, floppy, then SATA drive - it doesn't split the SATA drive option into the 2 options
2. Same as when I hit F12 to select boot order - it has floppy, SATA drive, or CD as the options - not the two hard drives separately.

Hope that helps you help me!!

Andy

linderman

is the new drive also a Sata drive ??????


look in the bios under hard drives >>>> see if the new drive is listed there and how its described ????


what tool did you use to partition and format the new drive ????

do you have service pack two installed ?????


try swapping the plugs where these drives are connected to the motherboard ?

andylogan

Hi,

1. Yes the new drive is also SATA (just larger size)
2. Under DRIVES in the BIOS it reads:

Drive 0 : SATA - 0
Drive 1 : SATA - 2 (this is what it shows on the motherboard specs too)
Drive 2 : PATA - 0
Drive 3 : PATA - 1

3 . I used the Seagate DiskWizard tool to partition and format the drive.

4. Yes, SP2 is installed


I'll try swapping the plugs . Just to confirm what I can't do is just disable the original one in the BIOS - xxclone needs to see the two drives right? in order to swap drive letters, etc, right?

I find it odd that the BIOS doesn't let me pick which SATA to boot from...maybe I'll look at seeing if there is a BIOS update for this.

Thanks for your help!

linderman

once you get the "congratulations" message from xxclone then you can boot from only the clone without the other drive connected


you have done everything right


does the saegate diagnostic report your new drive as being healthy ??????

andylogan

Hi!

Well I finally got a chance to swap the plugs only (thankfully I didn't need to physically swap the drives - SATA is nice that way!)

Rebooted and it worked! The alternate wallpaper sure is a nice feature - anyways, got the congratulations message and it's good to go.

One more thing now though: As long as I just use the incremental backups I shouldn't need to do that swapping / get the "successful clone" message right? It's ONLY if I do a full backup from scratch that it would want to do that initial boot to the new drive to get the success message?

Thanks,

Andy

linderman

youre correct, the incremental back-up only changes the data as compared to your "source" drive