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From: Ian Jackson 
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Subject: Re: I thought Macrium Reflect was supposed to be so great
Date: Sun, 26 Nov 2017 08:53:30 +0000
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In message , mike  
writes
>On 11/25/2017 8:47 PM, james{at}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.]

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Ian
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