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Old January 8th 17, 09:30 PM posted to alt.windows7.general,comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.storage
Paul[_32_]
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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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Old January 9th 17, 07:28 PM posted to alt.windows7.general,comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.storage
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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.



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!



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Old January 9th 17, 09:29 PM posted to alt.windows7.general,comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.storage
Linea Recta[_2_]
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It seems a linux utility? I don't run or know anything about linux...
Running Windows 7.



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Old January 10th 17, 07:56 PM posted to alt.windows7.general,comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.storage
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"Linea Recta" wrote in message
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. . . 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.
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(Ottawa, Canada)


 




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