ROCKAPE Posted October 22, 2012 Member ID: 4 Group: ++++ Senior Admin Followers: 172 Topic Count: 1108 Topics Per Day: 0.19 Content Count: 5192 Content Per Day: 0.90 Reputation: 3203 Achievement Points: 44036 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 17 Joined: 09/01/09 Status: Offline Last Seen: 2 hours ago Birthday: 08/16/1967 Device: Windows Posted October 22, 2012 I have got a clicking hard drive and it happens to be the "c" drive that has the operating system on.Im experiencing slow responses when accessing this drive and sometimes freeze ups. I am making another internal hard drive empty at the moment and my plan would be to, if possible clone the starting to fail c drive to the one that is healthy. Problem is I dont have the know how. I am able to still use the pc but I dont think its going to be long before it fails to boot. I do still have the windows 7 operating system on disc which I purchased but i thought that to clone then boot from new drive would be my best option then remove the old drive and throw it over next doors garden! Any help would be appreciated as i do not have any clone/mirror image software etc. Thnx in advance. Awards
TheLastColdBeer Posted October 22, 2012 Member ID: 489 Group: ***- Inactive Clan Members Followers: 52 Topic Count: 553 Topics Per Day: 0.10 Content Count: 4745 Content Per Day: 0.82 Reputation: 6058 Achievement Points: 42053 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 18 Joined: 09/22/09 Status: Offline Last Seen: December 23, 2024 Birthday: 01/09/1963 Device: Android Posted October 22, 2012 Maxtor has a utility that allows you to clone your master drive. Usually ships with any new hard drive, but you can find it on their website. Install your new drive as a slave and boot from something else (cd or thumb) with the clone utility. Hurry m8, the ship is going down........ Awards
Astronomer Posted October 22, 2012 Member ID: 2069 Group: ***- Inactive Clan Members Followers: 24 Topic Count: 214 Topics Per Day: 0.04 Content Count: 2411 Content Per Day: 0.45 Reputation: 2409 Achievement Points: 18298 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 7 Joined: 12/25/10 Status: Offline Last Seen: October 2, 2023 Birthday: 08/08/1966 Posted October 22, 2012 The drive is dying, and will go at any time. Try Clonezilla http://clonezilla.org/. It works like Norton Ghost, and it's a very trusted app, and even better, it's free. Good Luck! Awards
simplemod Posted October 22, 2012 Member ID: 623 Group: **- Inactive Registered Users Followers: 21 Topic Count: 62 Topics Per Day: 0.01 Content Count: 1072 Content Per Day: 0.19 Reputation: 417 Achievement Points: 7809 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 1 Joined: 10/24/09 Status: Offline Last Seen: January 27, 2018 Birthday: 10/26/1982 Posted October 22, 2012 If your drives are the same size, the built in for windows works great. If they are different sizes then you'll need something aftermarket. Start button, do a search for Back up, the first one should be Back up and Restore. Open it, left side of that window has 2 options Create a System Image and Create a System Repair Disc. Create System Image is what you want. When you click it, it will be looking for something to back up to. I used an external USB hard drive for the image. I also went ahead and made a new repair disc as well. Swapped out the hard drives when all that was done. When you boot up with the repair disc in and the externel drive plugged in, the onscreen guides you through the rest, from what I remeber. It took about 45 minutes and everything was installed and working, and not required to re-activate windows. WiZiD and Blackbart 2
google Posted October 22, 2012 Member ID: 1270 Group: *** Clan Members Followers: 149 Topic Count: 330 Topics Per Day: 0.06 Content Count: 3864 Content Per Day: 0.69 Reputation: 4548 Achievement Points: 34207 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 12 Joined: 03/22/10 Status: Offline Last Seen: Wednesday at 12:28 PM Birthday: 04/12/1969 Device: Windows Posted October 22, 2012 Best bootable Disk m8...........software for all problem....clone tools,disk repair,..bad sector repair and very important mini XP from CD drive... http://www.hiren.info/pages/bootcd boot from CD or Usb... Awards
Cavey Posted October 22, 2012 Member ID: 92 Group: **- Inactive Registered Users Followers: 42 Topic Count: 97 Topics Per Day: 0.02 Content Count: 2241 Content Per Day: 0.39 Reputation: 606 Achievement Points: 13358 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 1 Joined: 09/02/09 Status: Offline Last Seen: May 11, 2020 Birthday: 06/09/1977 Posted October 22, 2012 I'm at Rockape's place and the drive is knackered. He has a spare drive we are working on now.
KaptCrunch Posted October 22, 2012 Member ID: 389 Group: *** Clan Members Followers: 48 Topic Count: 366 Topics Per Day: 0.06 Content Count: 5241 Content Per Day: 0.91 Reputation: 4510 Achievement Points: 42089 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 71 Joined: 09/14/09 Status: Offline Last Seen: 1 hour ago Birthday: 01/01/1970 Device: Windows Posted October 22, 2012 take out bad HDD and place in a plastic zip lock bag and put in your freezer for a 12hrs while its chilling prepare computer for to back up HDD, your back-up software installed an ready have HDD data/power plug ready to hook up and bath towel to wrap HDD then transfer files after removing from freezer WiZiD 1 Awards
baldie Posted October 22, 2012 Member ID: 607 Group: *** Clan Members Followers: 76 Topic Count: 246 Topics Per Day: 0.04 Content Count: 3370 Content Per Day: 0.59 Reputation: 2733 Achievement Points: 34320 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 13 Joined: 10/21/09 Status: Offline Last Seen: 4 hours ago Birthday: 09/16/1966 Device: Windows Posted October 22, 2012 I'm at Rockape's place and the drive is knackered. He has a spare drive we are working on now. Good luck mate I hope it all works for you Awards
Cavey Posted October 22, 2012 Member ID: 92 Group: **- Inactive Registered Users Followers: 42 Topic Count: 97 Topics Per Day: 0.02 Content Count: 2241 Content Per Day: 0.39 Reputation: 606 Achievement Points: 13358 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 1 Joined: 09/02/09 Status: Offline Last Seen: May 11, 2020 Birthday: 06/09/1977 Posted October 22, 2012 All sorted. He just needs to install games now. Off home now. TheLastColdBeer, simplemod, WiZiD and 1 other 4
baldie Posted October 22, 2012 Member ID: 607 Group: *** Clan Members Followers: 76 Topic Count: 246 Topics Per Day: 0.04 Content Count: 3370 Content Per Day: 0.59 Reputation: 2733 Achievement Points: 34320 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 13 Joined: 10/21/09 Status: Offline Last Seen: 4 hours ago Birthday: 09/16/1966 Device: Windows Posted October 22, 2012 All sorted. He just needs to install games now. Off home now. Nice work mate great to see fellow Idiots helping each other out TheLastColdBeer, Blackbart, loaderXI and 1 other 4 Awards
RustyRifle Posted October 22, 2012 Member ID: 3572 Group: Fallen Members Followers: 0 Topic Count: 147 Topics Per Day: 0.03 Content Count: 832 Content Per Day: 0.18 Reputation: 592 Achievement Points: 7645 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 2 Joined: 07/22/12 Status: Offline Last Seen: November 29, 2017 Birthday: 05/28/1975 Posted October 22, 2012 I have got a clicking hard drive and it happens to be the "c" drive that has the operating system on.Im experiencing slow responses when accessing this drive and sometimes freeze ups. I am making another internal hard drive empty at the moment and my plan would be to, if possible clone the starting to fail c drive to the one that is healthy. Problem is I dont have the know how. I am able to still use the pc but I dont think its going to be long before it fails to boot. I do still have the windows 7 operating system on disc which I purchased but i thought that to clone then boot from new drive would be my best option then remove the old drive and throw it over next doors garden! Any help would be appreciated as i do not have any clone/mirror image software etc. Thnx in advance. ok i was lazy and didnt read all the comments. iw been working with pc´s my whole live. your hard drive is going dry, under the harddrive therers a thing that spins. you could try to spray it with oil...we in sweden have some thing called 556 spray oil. but i also would recommend you to get an extarn hd to copy over all the info you dont wanna loose. its just getting dry but with a little bit of sprayoil you can get the sound away and lengten the life of the hard drive. also vacume and spray all the fans you have and you will get a silent pc,. // Rusty simplemod 1
hxtr Posted October 22, 2012 Member ID: 220 Group: **- Inactive Registered Users Followers: 147 Topic Count: 595 Topics Per Day: 0.10 Content Count: 16950 Content Per Day: 2.93 Reputation: 13538 Achievement Points: 129714 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 120 Joined: 09/04/09 Status: Offline Last Seen: October 26, 2023 Birthday: 04/05/1970 Posted October 22, 2012 glad it is working.... good work Cavey!!!!
Astronomer Posted October 22, 2012 Member ID: 2069 Group: ***- Inactive Clan Members Followers: 24 Topic Count: 214 Topics Per Day: 0.04 Content Count: 2411 Content Per Day: 0.45 Reputation: 2409 Achievement Points: 18298 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 7 Joined: 12/25/10 Status: Offline Last Seen: October 2, 2023 Birthday: 08/08/1966 Posted October 22, 2012 Good stuff Cavey! Awards
WiZiD Posted October 22, 2012 Member ID: 804 Group: ***- Inactive Clan Members Followers: 32 Topic Count: 446 Topics Per Day: 0.08 Content Count: 3600 Content Per Day: 0.63 Reputation: 1053 Achievement Points: 24386 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 4 Joined: 11/28/09 Status: Offline Last Seen: June 3 Birthday: 04/25/1960 Device: Windows Posted October 22, 2012 All sorted. He just needs to install games now. Off home now. Nice work mate great to see fellow Idiots helping each other out yeap your the man..... Awards
loaderXI Posted October 23, 2012 Member ID: 252 Group: +++ COD2 Head Admin Followers: 73 Topic Count: 397 Topics Per Day: 0.07 Content Count: 6443 Content Per Day: 1.11 Reputation: 6585 Achievement Points: 54697 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 32 Joined: 09/05/09 Status: Offline Last Seen: Thursday at 12:54 PM Birthday: 03/22/1965 Device: Windows Posted October 23, 2012 Glad to hear u got it straight my friend thanks for ur help Cavey......We gotta keep Rock working hard Awards
ROCKAPE Posted October 23, 2012 Member ID: 4 Group: ++++ Senior Admin Followers: 172 Topic Count: 1108 Topics Per Day: 0.19 Content Count: 5192 Content Per Day: 0.90 Reputation: 3203 Achievement Points: 44036 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 17 Joined: 09/01/09 Status: Offline Last Seen: 2 hours ago Birthday: 08/16/1967 Device: Windows Author Posted October 23, 2012 Thanks to everyone who posted to help me out,I have made note of Simplemods reply as everyday is a learning day,kaptcrunch too. A massive thanks to Cavey who arrived in his cape as "Computer Repair Man"!! I was not expecting help so soon and could not have got it sorted so quickly without the help. Im now installing all of my games again and will hopefully complete that today. When I chat to new members about this clan,this is something I tell them that there are so many members with such a vast amount of knowledge that we can lean on for support and help and this was an example of it. Once Again guys many thanks. Rockape. simplemod and RustyRifle 2 Awards
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