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no use - being a laptop i have to use an external usb drive for the second drive - the free version of HD Clone doesn't support USB and i'm not paying for it unless I absolutely have to!
think i've sorted it anyway, using Drive Snapshot to take a complete image of the original disc onto a spare disc i had, then replace the original disc i had with the new disc and boot from a BartPE disc I had with Drive Snapshot already installed on it, then restore the image from the spare drive to the new drive that way, should work afaik but left it running at work coz I had to shoot before it finished
think i've sorted it anyway, using Drive Snapshot to take a complete image of the original disc onto a spare disc i had, then replace the original disc i had with the new disc and boot from a BartPE disc I had with Drive Snapshot already installed on it, then restore the image from the spare drive to the new drive that way, should work afaik but left it running at work coz I had to shoot before it finished
I dl'ed a program and fixed the mbr. I need a sensible partitioning tool now as the one I did use was the one (I am sure it wasn't me) that fubared the disk in the first place.
My brother rings me and says his lappy won't boot, so I says bring it round and i'll have a look.
he is right it goes through the bios stuff then stops. So I says did it just stop? did you load something on?
He replies "no I dropped it". That will be the reason then, on or off when you dropped it? On
I am now trying to get his photos off it, because he has a rigerous backup strategy of not backing up. I will then try formatting the disk but I think he will be splashing out for a new one, only ?30 for a 2.5" 60GB so not all bad.
My brother rings me and says his lappy won't boot, so I says bring it round and i'll have a look.
he is right it goes through the bios stuff then stops. So I says did it just stop? did you load something on?
He replies "no I dropped it". That will be the reason then, on or off when you dropped it? On
I am now trying to get his photos off it, because he has a rigerous backup strategy of not backing up. I will then try formatting the disk but I think he will be splashing out for a new one, only ?30 for a 2.5" 60GB so not all bad.
I couldn't remember when I last posted thats why I didn't say 
On further research, ie looking it is called partition table doctor
http://www.ptdd.com/
On further research, ie looking it is called partition table doctor
http://www.ptdd.com/
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it worked117 wrote: think i've sorted it anyway, using Drive Snapshot to take a complete image of the original disc onto a spare disc i had, then replace the original disc i had with the new disc and boot from a BartPE disc I had with Drive Snapshot already installed on it, then restore the image from the spare drive to the new drive that way, should work afaik but left it running at work coz I had to shoot before it finished
the only other thing I had to do was boot to the original disc with the new disc in the USB caddy and use Disk Management to set the new disc to an active partition (I didn't have a tool to do this on my BartPE disc), then replace the two drives again and she boots fine - I now have a 120Gb disc in the lappy so I can set about installing VMWare Server and RedHat Enterprise Server now 
edit: oh, and i'm uninstalling Norton Ghost now ffs, fucken waste of space and highly irritating popups every time i boot up or chuck in a USB disc ffs
did you pay for it? coz the free version says it doesn't write to disc....arfur wrote: I couldn't remember when I last posted thats why I didn't say Groovy
On further research, ie looking it is called partition table doctor
http://www.ptdd.com/
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Okay, I'm gonna add my little problem that's developed with my dads computer, to see if anyone has any ideas. To cut a long story short, my Dad's PSU seemed to blow up for whatever reason, smoke and everything and upon replacing that the PC wouldn't boot up at all. It turns out that when one of the HDD's is plugged into the power the whole system doesn't wanna turn on. This has been tested in my computer as well, you press the power button, and nothing happens. I've put the hard drive in my external enclosure and that doesn't even power up. So I'm gonna hazard a guess and say it's a power problem with the HDD.
Now like most people these days my dad hasn't backed up much stuff since last June. There's been a lot of photos taken since then, and a lot of cards (birthday cards, Christmas cards, etc, etc) which my mum has made, that she wants to somehow save. I foolishly reassured her that I'd easily be able to get the stuff off the hard drive just to shut her up. Failing surgery on the drive to take the platter out and put it in another drive, which will no doubt not work at all, anyone got any ideas?
Now like most people these days my dad hasn't backed up much stuff since last June. There's been a lot of photos taken since then, and a lot of cards (birthday cards, Christmas cards, etc, etc) which my mum has made, that she wants to somehow save. I foolishly reassured her that I'd easily be able to get the stuff off the hard drive just to shut her up. Failing surgery on the drive to take the platter out and put it in another drive, which will no doubt not work at all, anyone got any ideas?
