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From: Paul <nospam@needed.invalid>
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Subject: Re: I thought Macrium Reflect was supposed to be so great
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james@nospam.com wrote:

I took the 40gb HDD out of my XP laptop, and cloned it to a 160gb drive, using Macrium Reflect. I did it exactly the way it suggested. I used the "Clone" button, and had it create an exact duplicate to the larger
drive. It created a 40gb partition which is supposed to be an identical clone. I did nothing with the remainder of that drive. I figured I could format the remaining 120gb later, and having a 40gb partition with the
OS is fine. The remainder of the drive will be storage and music, etc.

But after all the great things I have heard about Macrium Ref, I am very disappointed. When I plug in the new drive, all I see is "Operating
system not found". After unsuccessfully trying to do the same with
Norton Ghost and a program from Seagate that is supposed to also clone drives, I guess I'm out of luck cloning this.

Guess it's time to start from scratch and install XP. I dont mind that
so much, but I do mind having to reinstall all the programs and worse
yet, having to reconfigure all the settings, drivers, and removing all
the annoyances out of XP.

Macrium Reflect gets an "F". (FAILED - FAILED - FAILED)
Now it goes in the trash bin, since I have no use for anything else it
does (like backup).

Did you at least look at the drive in Disk Management ?

Does it pass CHKDSK ?

The Macrium CD has a menu with a "boot repair" item,
as well as its own File Explorer like tool, and a Command Prompt.
You can do quite a bit in there, before switching to another
environment entirely.

Paul
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From: Ian Jackson <ianREMOVETHISjackson@g3ohx.co.uk>
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Subject: Re: I thought Macrium Reflect was supposed to be so great
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In message <ovdi6u$cfh$1@news.albasani.net>, mike <ham789@netzero.net>
writes

On 11/25/2017 8:47 PM, james@nospam.com wrote:

I took the 40gb HDD out of my XP laptop, and cloned it to a 160gb drive,
using Macrium Reflect. I did it exactly the way it suggested. I used the
"Clone" button, and had it create an exact duplicate to the larger
drive. It created a 40gb partition which is supposed to be an identical
clone. I did nothing with the remainder of that drive. I figured I could
format the remaining 120gb later, and having a 40gb partition with the
OS is fine. The remainder of the drive will be storage and music, etc.

But after all the great things I have heard about Macrium Ref, I am very
disappointed. When I plug in the new drive, all I see is "Operating
system not found". After unsuccessfully trying to do the same with
Norton Ghost and a program from Seagate that is supposed to also clone
drives, I guess I'm out of luck cloning this.

Guess it's time to start from scratch and install XP. I dont mind that
so much, but I do mind having to reinstall all the programs and worse
yet, having to reconfigure all the settings, drivers, and removing all
the annoyances out of XP.

Macrium Reflect gets an "F". (FAILED - FAILED - FAILED)
Now it goes in the trash b

in, since I have no use for anything else it

does (like backup).

You can probably fix it by booting the xp install disk a and repairing
it, although not too sure about XP. Surely there are many tutorials
about this problem.

I've never used the clone function.
I always back up the "drives needed to reinstall windows" to external
media.
Install the new drive and restore the backup.
This will also install all the boot stuff, including any special stuff
you might have in the boot sector.
That has never failed me.

I've only cloned two or three 2.5" disks - and, every time, I think I
got something similar. IIRC, I had to do a 'Rebuild Master Boot Record'
(MBR). 'AOMEI Partition Assistant' (which can also do the cloning) has
this function. [Other cloning programs may also have the 'Rebuild MBR' function.]

--
Ian
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I took the 40gb HDD out of my XP laptop, and cloned it to a 160gb drive,
using Macrium Reflect. I did it exactly the way it suggested. I used the "Clone" button, and had it create an exact duplicate to the larger
drive. It created a 40gb partition which is supposed to be an identical
clone. I did nothing with the remainder of that drive. I figured I could
format the remaining 120gb later, and having a 40gb partition with the
OS is fine. The remainder of the drive will be storage and music, etc.

But after all the great things I have heard about Macrium Ref, I am very disappointed. When I plug in the new drive, all I see is "Operating
system not found". After unsuccessfully trying to do the same with
Norton Ghost and a program from Seagate that is supposed to also clone
drives, I guess I'm out of luck cloning this.

Guess it's time to start from scratch and install XP. I dont mind that
so much, but I do mind having to reinstall all the programs and worse
yet, having to reconfigure all the settings, drivers, and removing all
the annoyances out of XP.

Macrium Reflect gets an "F". (FAILED - FAILED - FAILED)
Now it goes in the trash bin, since I have no use for anything else it
does (like backup).
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On 11/25/2017 8:47 PM, james@nospam.com wrote:

I took the 40gb HDD out of my XP laptop, and cloned it to a 160gb drive, using Macrium Reflect. I did it exactly the way it suggested. I used the "Clone" button, and had it create an exact duplicate to the larger
drive. It created a 40gb partition which is supposed to be an identical clone. I did nothing with the remainder of that drive. I figured I could format the remaining 120gb later, and having a 40gb partition with the
OS is fine. The remainder of the drive will be storage and music, etc.

But after all the great things I have heard about Macrium Ref, I am very disappointed. When I plug in the new drive, all I see is "Operating
system not found". After unsuccessfully trying to do the same with
Norton Ghost and a program from Seagate that is supposed to also clone drives, I guess I'm out of luck cloning this.

Guess it's time to start from scratch and install XP. I dont mind that
so much, but I do mind having to reinstall all the programs and worse
yet, having to reconfigure all the settings, drivers, and removing all
the annoyances out of XP.

Macrium Reflect gets an "F". (FAILED - FAILED - FAILED)
Now it goes in the trash b

in, since I have no use for anything else it

does (like backup).

You can probably fix it by booting the xp install disk a and repairing
it, although not too sure about XP. Surely there are many tutorials
about this problem.

I've never used the clone function.
I always back up the "drives needed to reinstall windows" to external
media.
Install the new drive and restore the backup.
This will also install all the boot stuff, including any special stuff
you might have in the boot sector.
That has never failed me.
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