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To: maceng2 who wrote (80117)	11/30/2012 11:21:42 AM
From: maceng2	Read Replies (1) of 110653

Re cloning a drive. I did manage to muddle through in the end. It was a fairly simple process, and I would like to say it went flawlessly but there was a long sustained learning curve. (see from message) Cloning works fine. I cloned the new drive proportionately using the Acronis tool. There are many other cloning tools out there of course. The new cloned duel boot system came up no problem at all. I then shut down the other drive and restarted windows. Win 7 came back and works fine but XP would only came back if the original drive was still on. After remembering that I had moved my profile to another partition I had that changed too but still the same issue remained. I then looked at the registry and saw that the old drive was still defined in lots of places. I exported the registry to a backup location and started editing. I was going to try and manually edit those entries as my registry editor is off line due to activation issues, but there seemed to be many instances that needed editing, so I found a free registry editing manager. I was hoping to get a recommendation of a decent one here but there didnt seem to be any posts on the matter. Any way I found one and used it to search & replace the 3000+ instances where an old drive letter had been referenced. Just as well I gave up on the manual edit. XP is booting up fine now even with the old drive off. There was another issue that complicated things no end. The connecting cable was a bit short, it didnt matter quite so much with the old drive, but it did with the new drive. I got all sorts of read/write errors (which I didnt know about) and the whole system would go into a total screw up after a day or two. I imagined I had bought a duff new Hard Drive on Ebay but the drive worked just fine, passed all the extended tests, in a different location. It was only then did I figure out it was a cable problem. The purchase of a simple sata power connector extension fixed that. Couldnt of been simpler -lol-

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