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Hi, I'm looking for any tools/softare or a process where in replacing an exising hard drive on a computer, that has a hidden restore partition like IBM, Lenovo, some HP's, |
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Hi, I'm looking for any tools/softare or a process where in replacing an
exising hard drive on a computer, that has a hidden restore partition like IBM, Lenovo, some HP's, that I can clone both the boot partition and the hidden restore partition over to a new larger hard drive, that would then replace the existing internal drive. Seagate tells me their SeaTools will not do this. Acronis tech support has not responded. Thanks in advacne - Dodge |
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Dodge wrote:
> Hi, I'm looking for any tools/softare or a process where in replacing an > exising hard drive on a computer, that has a hidden restore partition like > IBM, Lenovo, some HP's, that I can clone both the boot partition and the > hidden restore partition over to a new larger hard drive, that would then > replace the existing internal drive. Seagate tells me their SeaTools will not > do this. Acronis tech support has not responded. Thanks in advacne - Dodge You can download a trial version of bootitng from www.terabyteunlimited.com. Make a boot media, boot, cancel install and go into maintenance mode. You may need to read their online manual if the menu isn't sufficiently intuitive. You might decide you like the product enough to register and install. Great for multi-os support. Dave Cohen |
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"Dodge" <Dodge@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:1BFA174E-0686-447A-AD33-B86FD1ECD22D@microsoft.com... > Hi, I'm looking for any tools/softare or a process where in replacing an > exising hard drive on a computer, that has a hidden restore partition like > IBM, Lenovo, some HP's, that I can clone both the boot partition and the > hidden restore partition over to a new larger hard drive, that would then > replace the existing internal drive. Seagate tells me their SeaTools will > not > do this. Acronis tech support has not responded. Thanks in advacne - Dodge go to http://www.fssdev.com/ and check out Casper been using it for years |
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"Dodge" <Dodge@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:1BFA174E-0686-447A-AD33-B86FD1ECD22D@microsoft.com... > Hi, I'm looking for any tools/softare or a process where in replacing an > exising hard drive on a computer, that has a hidden restore partition like > IBM, Lenovo, some HP's, that I can clone both the boot partition and the > hidden restore partition over to a new larger hard drive, that would then > replace the existing internal drive. Seagate tells me their SeaTools will > not > do this. Acronis tech support has not responded. Thanks in advacne - Dodge You can do this with Acronis, but the partitions will be the same size in this mode. You will then use something like Acronis Disk Director to adjust partition sizes as appropriate. HTH -pk |
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"Patrick Keenan" <test@dev.null> wrote in message news:uQtypY8KJHA.1156@TK2MSFTNGP05.phx.gbl... > "Dodge" <Dodge@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message > news:1BFA174E-0686-447A-AD33-B86FD1ECD22D@microsoft.com... >> Hi, I'm looking for any tools/softare or a process where in replacing an >> exising hard drive on a computer, that has a hidden restore partition >> like >> IBM, Lenovo, some HP's, that I can clone both the boot partition and the >> hidden restore partition over to a new larger hard drive, that would then >> replace the existing internal drive. Seagate tells me their SeaTools will >> not >> do this. Acronis tech support has not responded. Thanks in advacne - >> Dodge > > You can do this with Acronis, but the partitions will be the same size in > this mode. You will then use something like Acronis Disk Director to > adjust partition sizes as appropriate. > > HTH > -pk Casper will also allow you to set partition size before cloning |
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Do a search for bounceback-------I think you'll like it.
"Dave Cohen" <user@example.net> wrote in message news:gcqime$d5l$1@registered.motzarella.org... > Dodge wrote: >> Hi, I'm looking for any tools/softare or a process where in replacing an >> exising hard drive on a computer, that has a hidden restore partition >> like IBM, Lenovo, some HP's, that I can clone both the boot partition and >> the hidden restore partition over to a new larger hard drive, that would >> then replace the existing internal drive. Seagate tells me their SeaTools >> will not do this. Acronis tech support has not responded. Thanks in >> advacne - Dodge > > You can download a trial version of bootitng from > www.terabyteunlimited.com. Make a boot media, boot, cancel install and go > into maintenance mode. You may need to read their online manual if the > menu isn't sufficiently intuitive. > You might decide you like the product enough to register and install. > Great for multi-os support. > Dave Cohen |
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