Posted on 02/03/2011 6:46:01 PM PST by free_life
I want to copy my 250 Gig Hard Drive to another 250 Hard Drive. I have been doing this for years with Drive Image using the 'drive copy' function in DI7. Now I get an error message "the service did not start due to a logon failure" and the drives do not show up in DI's GUI interface.
I have not been able to figure how to correct this problem.
I like to copy my whole HD not just make an image, that way if my drive ever fails I just pop the other drive in and I am up and running. I use removable IDE hard drive cages. I am running XP Pro SP2. I have a C: a D: and a E: partitions.
I have been looking around online at other possible drive or partition copy software and finding it kind of daunting.
Any help would be appreciated. Excuse the vanity but where else is an Freeper going to go for good advise?
Wow you guys are great, this is just what I was hoping for. Your recommendations take away that going in blind on all the software available out there. Thanks guys!
My first PC didn’t even have a hard drive, just floppies. Yea I am ancient. I got the first HD out of all the geeks who knew each other in town (5 MB I think ??) and they all came to see and marvel. I was pretty techie but no time for it these days.
X Clone is a free product that will copy your small hard drive to your new hard drive completely and fully bootable. Just follow the instructions...
Even if you have a disk copy you will still have to re-register Win XP if your drive crashes as the original install is keyed to the original hardware with a signature file. Otherwise, pirating MS Windows would be as cheap and easy as copying a fresh install to multiple hard drives and redistributing it.
That sounds like fun........ lol!
Heh... well, my first PC used a cassette tape drive: Heathkit. :-)
I would suggest your next step is to go to Windows 7.
hd clone is really awsome. I had a hard drive crash last year and this program cloned my drive onto a new drive and it was plug n play ready. I didn’t have to re register anything.
Acronis True Image. It is EXCELLENT.
Before you spend any money or install any new software you should troubleshoot the problem you have with DI7.
The error message said there was a log in error starting the Drive Image service, so you should check the account setting on the DI7 service first.
Look at the properties of the service in Computer Management and make sure that valid user name/password is entered, or have it run as a system account.
If you recently changed your windows password, any services running under that user name will probably fail due to an old and invalid password.
Well then, MY first PC used paper tape (like in a TTY machine). The bootstrap loader (BIOS) was 17 instructions long, and each instruction was entered with switch settings.
I’ll second XClone, as I was about to recommend it. It worked fairly quickly for me where other, better known products failed.
Uninstal DI and reinstall it. Your installation may just be corrupt.
Btt
I have used HDclone in the past too - it is really good at what it does. I have cloned 2 drives with it, the largest was a 360G with 4 partitions cloned to a 500G. It even brought the hidden OS backup partition and Linux partition over with no problems.
Acronis, the support is very good;
http://forum.acronis.com/forum/8248
I’m very happy with how it went!
The fact that you are making a backup at all, bootable or not, put you way ahead of most computer users. If you are making one backup, consider making a second backup on another external drive. The second drive can then be stored off-site; at work, a friend's house, etc. Drives are so cheap nowadays, it really is worth it.
What’s interesting is that Acronis makes stand alone iso versions you burn to CD that run in a self contained linux environment when you boot.
That’s the way I understood it, I could be wrong.
Or do I mean XX clone?
However, since u have to ask... it can get a little complicated, making a BootCD, changing the Boot Sequence in the BIOS, etc... Any local Geek Shop can handle it for ya.
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