[syed zubair]

Hi

I used diskpart utility to extend my d partition to get the unallocated spce on same drive with a command in diskpart EXTEND SIZE="SIZE IN MBS" on a RAID 5.

The result is the command execute but no error and no success message even after 10 hours. The disk management shows the correct extended amount of size but its not showing in my computer as a d drive with new space.

Can i close the disk part command prompt and reboot or wair untill i get the success message from disk part about partition extending.

Please Advice
Thanks in advance

[Terence]

I recently used hdclone to transfer my winxp on a 40 gig ide hard drive to a 80 gig sata hd and everthing transfered over just great but when I boot up windows off the bigger drive I get a generic host error message and says the system must shut down, but doesn't and I have not sound other than from computer sources.
Have i neglected to do something with regard to the transfer. or do i have to reload windows xp again on the larger drive and remove the smaller drive as well? Please help need my games back. Thanx, Ter.

[Alex]

There might be problems when booting an installation with two hard disks, where both contain a valid windows installation, so yes, it would be advisable to boot up with only one disk attached.

On the other hand, doing a "system rescue" from the Windows XP installation program might also fix this. Sometimes windows gets confused, when the disk it's running from is a lot larger than the disk it was installed onto.

[renier]

the problem i have is...

ive cloned my office pc harddrive but want to use it in my pc at home, so when i put the cloned drive in to my pc windows states it needs to connect to internet for registration of somekind??
why is this and can i fix it without internet registration?

anyhelp will be appreciated
renier

[Alex]

The hardware is probably too different between the two computers, so Windows requires a new activation. This can be done via internet or via phone, Windows should give you the number in the activation dialog.

[Karh]

Hello there

Ive HDclone basic 3.7 and I try clone to C: partion to C:partition. From primery to slave. (I made this by bootable HDclone). Everything seems to have gone ok. When I tried to boot my pc,(slave drive to master) but it not worked. Its not loading Windows (xp) at all.
What I have to do,Is that only way to install Windows and all soft what there was. Both HDD are nearly same size. Source HD C:partition is 38,147MB and Target C:partition on Slave 38,160MB. The target Hdd doesnt work now.


:-(
can any help

thanks
karh

[btk]

I used the free version of hdclone to move from a 75g drive to a 300g drive. The program seems to run fine but I received millions of write errors while it ran for 9 hours. And the new drive cant be accessed and wont boot. The new drive used to run and boot fine...

Is there something I need to do differently?

[Alex]

Please specify which version (the windows or self-booting variant) you used. If there are write errors, then something is wrong on the driver level, and therefore there's hardly any data on the target disk that makes sense, so the new drive won't be accessed.

[Larry Wilson]

I have used 3.7 with success in the past. I am trying to upgrade and am cloning a HP laptop 115gb to a 500gb but the cloning process does not make exact size copy and when 500gb is installed get an error message on boot up "The selected entry could not be loaded because the application is missing or corrupt". It is referring to File:\windows\system32\winload.exe.
I have looked and the cloned file is in place and the same size as the original. But the cloned disk (500gb) is always a different size in bytes then the original 115gb disk. Thank you for your help

[Alex]

This Winload error is usually because the disk signature on the disk does not match the one reported in the Boot area.

HDClone has to change the disk signature of the cloned disk, otherwise Windows XP would crash, and new Windows versions would assign a random one, but without changing the signature in the registry, too, this is futile.

A Windows Vista and Windows 7 has a directory called Boot, with a file called BCD. This file is a registry hive (you can load it with reg load HKU boot, which will make the registry accessible in the registry editor (regedit.exe) unter HKEY_CURRENT_USER\boot. In there, you'll have to find the entires for the different boot options, and you'll find a long binary number, containing the disk signature and the start offset of the boot partition (in bytes) all mixed together. This string has to be changed accordingly, which HDClone does. If for some reason this file is not in a compliant format, HDClone will fail at doing this.