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Subject: Re: I thought Macrium Reflect was supposed to be so great
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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.
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