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  #646  
Old October 7th 19, 08:57 AM posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
Robert in CA
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Power switched on ?

Drive properly seated in enclosure ?

Do you hear any "sound effects" coming from the enclosure ?

Check in Device Manager, for a new entry.

Even if the MBR does not contain a valid
signature, the "item" should still show up
in Disk Management (so that a valid MBR can
be assigned to it, as an option).

On a decent computer, the popup boot menu
could have an entry with the Disk Name
showing up, as proof it's there. On
some, the USB setup page in the BIOS,
will list connected/alive devices.

Paul


I re-seated the HD and tried again and this time
it worked. I followed your instructions and
everything was going along OK until it jumped from
image 5 of your instructions to image 10, so I
cancelled it.

https://postimg.cc/LnY2fjQ1

https://postimg.cc/v1zsMhTp

https://postimg.cc/NK8h7D65

https://postimg.cc/php17JFQ

https://postimg.cc/344n9rsn

Why did it do that? So now what do I do?
Try it again ?


Thanks,
Robert
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  #647  
Old October 7th 19, 11:48 AM posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
Paul[_32_]
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Default Win7 support:

Robert in CA wrote:
Power switched on ?

Drive properly seated in enclosure ?

Do you hear any "sound effects" coming from the enclosure ?

Check in Device Manager, for a new entry.

Even if the MBR does not contain a valid
signature, the "item" should still show up
in Disk Management (so that a valid MBR can
be assigned to it, as an option).

On a decent computer, the popup boot menu
could have an entry with the Disk Name
showing up, as proof it's there. On
some, the USB setup page in the BIOS,
will list connected/alive devices.

Paul


I re-seated the HD and tried again and this time
it worked. I followed your instructions and
everything was going along OK until it jumped from
image 5 of your instructions to image 10, so I
cancelled it.

https://postimg.cc/LnY2fjQ1

https://postimg.cc/v1zsMhTp

https://postimg.cc/NK8h7D65

https://postimg.cc/php17JFQ

https://postimg.cc/344n9rsn

Why did it do that? So now what do I do?
Try it again ?


Thanks,
Robert


In the first picture, it says "Select a disk to clone to"

You were supposed to click the gray "GPT" item just below it,
as it's the only disk available as a target at the moment.

What should have happened, is in the second picture, the
GPT "layout" should be replaced by the layout of the
source disk above it. Click "Next" then "Back" to verify.

I simulated what happened to you here, and it looks
like the disk shipped with a 0xEE protective partition declaration
in the MBR, yet no other partitions defined on the disk.
I was able to make a disk do that here, using PTEDIT32
to capture a partition entry for it, "clean" my fake
disk, then apply it, and I could make your gray disk thingie.

https://i.postimg.cc/fb6NhB5w/cloning-puzzle.gif

And Macrium seems to be able to override that just fine.

For people who want to make their own scary gray disk,
this is the pattern you want to apply with PTEDIT32.exe .
Declare MSDOS partitioning first in Disk Management
(to get the signature in bytes 510 and 511), then
use PTEDIT32 to define a single partition entry like this.
This gives a gray disk which is "almost useless" :-/
What was Seagate thinking ?

https://i.postimg.cc/1t9LS2w1/ptedit...e-gpt-disk.gif

Paul
  #648  
Old October 7th 19, 09:01 PM posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
Robert in CA
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In the first picture, it says "Select a disk to clone to"

You were supposed to click the gray "GPT" item just below it,
as it's the only disk available as a target at the moment.

What should have happened, is in the second picture, the
GPT "layout" should be replaced by the layout of the
source disk above it. Click "Next" then "Back" to verify.

....




I did select the gray GPT which is shown in my screenshots
what should of happened didn't happen. I'll try it again.

Robert
  #649  
Old October 7th 19, 09:42 PM posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
Paul[_32_]
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Default Win7 support:

Robert in CA wrote:
In the first picture, it says "Select a disk to clone to"

You were supposed to click the gray "GPT" item just below it,
as it's the only disk available as a target at the moment.

What should have happened, is in the second picture, the
GPT "layout" should be replaced by the layout of the
source disk above it. Click "Next" then "Back" to verify.

...




I did select the gray GPT which is shown in my screenshots
what should of happened didn't happen. I'll try it again.

Robert


Click "Next", the schedule window appears.

Then, click "Back" and verify the gray drive
is now populated with the same partition setup
as the source drive.

Paul
  #650  
Old October 7th 19, 10:25 PM posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
Robert in CA
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Click "Next", the schedule window appears.

Then, click "Back" and verify the gray drive
is now populated with the same partition setup
as the source drive.

Paul




As you said, I should of clicked back and
then I would of been able to proceed. I
tried it again and was successful.

https://postimg.cc/ZBJcDHbt

https://postimg.cc/McSbv5jM

I just set free space to zero as you showed
me in your screenshots.

I now have a complete backup system for both
computers.

Many thanks for your time, patience links and
explaining things to me. I appreciate it very much.


Thanks again,
Robert

  #651  
Old October 8th 19, 01:21 AM posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
Paul[_32_]
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Robert in CA wrote:
Click "Next", the schedule window appears.

Then, click "Back" and verify the gray drive
is now populated with the same partition setup
as the source drive.

Paul




As you said, I should of clicked back and
then I would of been able to proceed. I
tried it again and was successful.

https://postimg.cc/ZBJcDHbt

https://postimg.cc/McSbv5jM

I just set free space to zero as you showed
me in your screenshots.

I now have a complete backup system for both
computers.

Many thanks for your time, patience links and
explaining things to me. I appreciate it very much.


Thanks again,
Robert


So now, when you put *only* the new disk inside
the computer, you can run Setup.exe off your
Windows 10 DVD and complete your Win10-over-Win7 install step.

Paul
  #652  
Old October 8th 19, 03:35 AM posted to microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
Robert in CA
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So now, when you put *only* the new disk inside
the computer, you can run Setup.exe off your
Windows 10 DVD and complete your Win10-over-Win7 install step.

Paul




Success!!

https://postimg.cc/MM82qSFQ

Man it took forever for everything to
load and then it said it had to restart
the computer which meant it was finished
but I thought it had more to do and so
pressed any key to start the DVD but I
saw it was starting all over not finishing
up, so I cancelled it.

Then had to go through with filling everything
out etc. Whew, I'm glad that's done and over
with!

Many thanks for all your great help,

Robert
 




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