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04-10-2007, 12:04 PM
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| need advice to copy partition! Main drive corrupt..? has a restore image on a seperate partition from factory. I have a clean 2nd drive mounted now, is there a way I can copy that partition/image over to new drive so I can restore on new drive? Then..I would still have bad drive with non corrupt documents still available?? I sold a guy a computer yr or 2 ago and he has lots of stuff I was able to mount in another and retrieve/backup to dvd but really don't want to waste everything on it just yet so I haven't even tried restoring original drive which I assume would work just fine. Goes to login but that's it? I have tried safe and tried an F11 which windows did a disk scan and said dirty disc/ deleted some corrupt stuff but never actually got it back to good again.... I got to take off..will check back in an hr or 2. Thanks! 
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04-10-2007, 12:17 PM
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| If you have a second computer running, you could just hook the drive up as a slave and copy your docs off of it. These restore partitions usually aren't as simple as copying the files to a new HD and often involve a 3rd hidden partition. Most of the drive manufacturers have cloning software on their websites, so have a look there first.. You may be able to clone the whole drive with all the partitions on it, then do the restore.
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04-11-2007, 09:22 AM
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| I see(or should I say "I don't") the hidden partition. I tried setting up the 3 partitions as the dirty drive and loaded the OS on the big one for kicks..now I have 2 stupid tiny partitions too  . I do have Acronis on my laptop and will be receiving 1 of those hdd/super dongles w/usb today..I wonder if I could rig it and get it down with that setup? Maybe I should just use the image on the "dirty drive" (already retrieved all users documents to dvd) and just let my friend reload apps and start "anew"....Could this be a sign of hardware failure or is it just a software glitch?TIA!
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