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Nomad:
Just to correct in previous post F.58 - 16/Oct/2008, it is F.58 -16/June/2008.

Nomad

Samson:

--- Quote from: Nomad on April 01, 2015, 06:08:52 am ---

Back to disk, I have a disk image by Macrium Reflect. However It seems it could only be restored in a drive with, at least, equal capacity, I mean, it could not be smaller than the original.
But could it be a SSD?

Nomad

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Hi Nomad,

I use Macrium Reflect (Free version), and I have successfully restored an image of a larger drive (250GB) to a smaller one (80GB), It'll work as long as the amount of data is less than the smaller HDD's capacity and leave at least 25% headroom too. Just drag the image to the smaller HDD.

http://www.macrium.com/help/v5/How_to/Restore/Restore_Partitions_with_Resize_and_Reorder.htm

Nomad:
Hi Samson

The image I have was made in an old Macrium version (4.2 3775) and to boot for restoring I recorded a Linux CD.
Which is your version?

Nomad

Samson:

--- Quote from: Nomad on April 01, 2015, 03:11:10 pm ---Hi Samson

The image I have was made in an old Macrium version (4.2 3775) and to boot for restoring I recorded a Linux CD.
Which is your version?

Nomad

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V 5.3.7297 But I have used previous versions of 5 as described above, also I use Win PE rescue CD.
I don't think that the type of rescue CD (Linux or Win PE) would make any difference. But I don't know about V4.

To be sure just get a drive the same capacity or bigger, you'll probably need the space at sometime anyway.

Shane:
I was kind of hoping it was the bios lol

Ok so normally I would say it is the hard drive that needs replaced. But when you said that a 2nd drive in the system does the same thing, and it was a 2nd drive and not a 2nd partition.

Because of that it makes me think it is the motherboard that is dropping the sata ports.

So now we just need to find out once and for all which it is, and we can do that by doing a simple test, if you are able to.

2 ways we can do this,

1. Take both drives out of the laptop and hook them into a tower or another system and run the chkdsk on them there.
If they fail out at the same point then we know it is bad drives (Since we are connected to a different mother board).
If chkdsk works just fine and doesnt drop out then we know the drives are good and the problem is the motherboard in the laptop.

2. If you dont have another system to hook the drives to then if you have a 3rd and different hard drive you can remove the 2nd drive in the system and put in the 3rd drive and do a chkdsk to it. But of course you need to be sure the 3rd drive is good.

The first test would be best to do if you have another system you can use. :wink:

Shane

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