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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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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 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 |
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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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