[Chris]

Hi, I'm trying to clone my 80GB IDE drive to an 80GB SATA, but when I boot from the HDClone CD, it only lists my SATA in the source hard-drive selection area. Any clues? Thanks in advance.

[Alex]

This is quite uncommon, usually it is the SATA drives who don't show up, but the IDE drives should all be fine... Could you verify this?

Please provide the mainboard name, in order for us to find the used SATA and IDE chip and narrow the problem. You can do this with our support at https://www.miray.de/support/index.php

[Eddie]

I cloned my 300gb hd to a 1tb hd. everything cloned perfectly but my new 1tb hd is running very slow. Much slower than the original hd. Please help.

[Alex]

Is your observation on the speed regarding overall performance with the Operating system, or is the drive simply slow: With HDClone, you can perform the Speed Test, which will output the read speed of the drive (you can also download DiskCheck from our homepage for this purpose).

Please specify which Disk you are using. If you happen to have a disk with internal 4K sectors, that shows only 512 Byte Sectors to the outside, special measures have to be made to gain optimal performance, otherwise writing to a sector requires always two reads and two writes.

[colin]

I cloned my 80gig ide hd to a 250 gig sata but now my 250 sata is only showing 80gig ?

[Alex]

Is it showing the 80G only on the file system, or does the disk management show the 80G and you cannot allocate the missing 130G?

If the first is the case, then you need to activate automatic resizing with HDClone, or simply add another partition.

If the disk management also shows only the 80G, then some sort of Hardware protection is active, use a tool like HDAT2 (www.hdat2.com) to permanently remove the protection and gain access to the full 250G.

[Jim]

I had to stop hdclone just after starting it.
I ws copying a new win7 OS installation onto my old one - which I guess had the boot partition on it. Now I can't start anything.

I'm using chkdsk to recover files, but I don't like the way things are looking - all the recovered files are being copied into directory file 226507...

Is there any hope at all in seeing my computer start up again, or am I just out of luck?

Jim

[Alex]

Directory File 226507 might be just any directory, it could also be C:\WINDOWS, or C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM32.

For Windows 7, usually there is a separate Boot Partition (usually without drive letter). If you copied the new installation onto the old one, the new one at one time must have worked, or am I wrong there? Did you use the mode disk->disk clone?