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chasbox
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Posted: Tue Jul 26, 2016 8:38 am |
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Win7 64bit machine was running a bit funny. Hard to explain. More of a feeling. I went on and tested the HD 4 different ways. CrystalDiskInfo, Speedfan,Seatools for Windows and CheckDisk All showed problems. Bad sectors etc.
I went and bought a new Seagate HD the same size. 1T Couldn't afford a SSD. Made two fresh Backups and Images using Win7 native. Found my Recovery Disk and it was broken. Used my last disk to make a new one.
At the last minute I remembered Macrium and made Recovery USB Drive. Made a Backup and Image.Glad I did.
Monday morning I installed the new drive. Put in the Recovery disk and it started. It was rolling along until up pops an error. Stopped everything in it's tracks. Tried again using the other backup drive Same error. Disk defective.
OK Macrium's turn. Put in Recovery drive and that worked. After a few clicks and minutes The System Image was in place. Ran tests on the new drive and everything was great. Machine running fine. Whew!!
_________________ To all current duty personnel and veterans of the American armed forces. Thank You
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MacDuffie
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Posted: Tue Jul 26, 2016 10:00 am |
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I don't know if this is the case, Chas, but it may be possible that Macrium (or any third party imaging program) makes some changes to a drive that Windows System Image can't stomach. I had found this to be the case years ago. So once you use one of these 3rd party programs, you really can't use System Image. Can anyone refute or confirm that for me?
_________________ Patty MacDuffie Computer Haven Administrator
Live Long and Prosper Mr. Spock
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chasbox
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Posted: Tue Jul 26, 2016 10:22 am |
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Joined: Sun Apr 15, 2012 12:37 am Posts: 465
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You maybe right. I think it was the disk. It was old and had been bounced around. I couldn't even get to the recovery menu. If I remember correctly I did a Image restore a few years back using native and had Macrium on my computer and it worked .Didn't have to use a recovery disk though. I'll make a new one and test it.
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jaylach
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Posted: Tue Jul 26, 2016 10:50 am |
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Joined: Wed Mar 21, 2012 5:09 am Posts: 9455 Location: The state of confusion; I just use Wyoming for mail.
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No issue here between Windows imaging and Acronis.
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chasbox
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Posted: Tue Jul 26, 2016 12:02 pm |
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I took the disk and erased it. I then made a new Recovery disk with it. Booted from it and after the files loaded the the thing just sat there for 5 minutes. Error pops up 0x4001100200001012. Just like yesterday.
_________________ To all current duty personnel and veterans of the American armed forces. Thank You
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MacDuffie
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Posted: Tue Jul 26, 2016 3:44 pm |
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Thanks, Jay. Glad to hear it!
Chas, looks like you've got a dead disk.
_________________ Patty MacDuffie Computer Haven Administrator
Live Long and Prosper Mr. Spock
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dvair
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Posted: Tue Jul 26, 2016 4:53 pm |
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Joined: Sun Apr 15, 2012 2:39 am Posts: 680 Location: Johnstown, NY
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Can you use SeaTools to do a low level format of the drive? It might take care of the bad sectors.
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chasbox
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Posted: Tue Jul 26, 2016 5:30 pm |
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Joined: Sun Apr 15, 2012 12:37 am Posts: 465
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Something to try. Thanks
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