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Linea Recta wrote:
OK, by now I've connected the new SATA drive and I'm (slow) formatting. Slow format option because of thourough test. Further mo the replaced SATA drive was a 80GB Maxtor. The new SATA drive is a Western digital 160GB, green label (whatever that means) Then I'm going to clone back Windows 7 partition to the new drive with Macrium without changing partition size. I'm aware plenty problems may be awaiting... thanks for all replies. Macrium has the ability to "re-size" while cloning. At the point where you select the "Destination" drive for the cloning operation, use the "Next" button, then the "Back" button, then look for the partition editing link at the bottom of the dialog. You can select alignment, and stretch or shrink a partition. It's not a replacement for a partition manager program, but it will do a good job of adjusting the right-most partition on your drive. For other kinds of adjustment situations, it cannot move the origin of the partition. There are ways to do that, but they do not benefit then, from some of the other Macrium features. So I won't be describing any methods that might not preserve OS boot capability. A straight clone should be bootable when finished. And if you need some amount of re-sizing or alignment, you can do it in the dialog, after the "Next" and "Back". Paul |
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"Paul" schreef in bericht
news Linea Recta wrote: OK, by now I've connected the new SATA drive and I'm (slow) formatting. Slow format option because of thourough test. Further mo the replaced SATA drive was a 80GB Maxtor. The new SATA drive is a Western digital 160GB, green label (whatever that means) Then I'm going to clone back Windows 7 partition to the new drive with Macrium without changing partition size. I'm aware plenty problems may be awaiting... thanks for all replies. Macrium has the ability to "re-size" while cloning. I know. But I don't want a bigger Windows boot partition because I want to keep the Macrium images in future small. I now have the new 160GB drive divided in two partitions op 80GB. (80GB was also the total drive size) Furthermore the old 160GB IDE drive is still in use (reformatted, after being used as temporarily clone) and now formatted as one large partition. Of course all these drives may be regarded "small" and "slow" measured at today's standards, but my intention is to keep this PC running at low cost. At the point where you select the "Destination" drive for the cloning operation, use the "Next" button, then the "Back" button, then look for the partition editing link at the bottom of the dialog. You can select alignment, and stretch or shrink a partition. It's not a replacement for a partition manager program, but it will do a good job of adjusting the right-most partition on your drive. For other kinds of adjustment situations, it cannot move the origin of the partition. There are ways to do that, but they do not benefit then, from some of the other Macrium features. So I won't be describing any methods that might not preserve OS boot capability. A straight clone should be bootable when finished. And if you need some amount of re-sizing or alignment, you can do it in the dialog, after the "Next" and "Back". Paul The system is running fine and booting "fast" compared to what it used to. Tomottow I want to swap the nec DVD burner with a faster one I have on the shelf. Macrium has saved me loads of work and I think it's a great application! -- |\ /| | \/ |@rk \../ \/os |
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It seems a linux utility? I don't run or know anything about linux...
Running Windows 7. -- |\ /| | \/ |@rk \../ \/os |
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"Linea Recta" wrote in message
news . . . I don't want a bigger Windows boot partition because I want to keep the Macrium images in future small. I now have the new 160GB drive divided in two partitions op 80GB. (80GB was also the total drive size) Furthermore the old 160GB IDE drive is still in use (reformatted, after being used as temporarily clone) and now formatted as one large partition. Of course all these drives may be regarded "small" and "slow" measured at today's standards, but my intention is to keep this PC running at low cost. To defer the new C:/ drive running out of space, you may find it useful to put the Windows swap file (PAGEFILE.SYS) onto another drive (done via / Control Panel / System / Advanced / Performance / Advanced / Virtual Memory.) In general, drive C: requires 10 per cent empty space to run as fast as it can. -- Don Phillipson Carlsbad Springs (Ottawa, Canada) |
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