June 3, 20197 yr Hello dear all My D drive is full and I have recently purchased a 4tb external hard drive. I used the Macrium software that I had purchased in order to clone the D drive into the new one. After a while, it crashed my PC so that not even the mouse would function. Nothing worked. The PC was simply frozen. I could not even turn it off by pushing the turn ON switch. The only thing that I could do was unplugging it. After reconnection, I started the PC after almost 15 minutes back ON again. Many of my programs were gone. I did restore the PC. Any idea how I can transfer and clone to the external hard? What went wrong during the cloning process? Any idea? Also to note that this PC is used ONLY for FS. Steam and P3D I will appreciate any comment and support and help. Thank you Homayoon
June 4, 20197 yr Following as I was interested in this program as well. Bryan Wallis aka "fltsimguy" Maple Bay, British Columbia Near CAM3
June 4, 20196 yr Cloning is not the way to go. You will finish up with a drive on your new 4Tb drive exactly the same size as the original drive D, with the remainder of the 4Tb as un partitioned space. Just mark all the folders on the drive D and copy or move them to the new drive. There is no need to copy over the $RECYCLE.BIN or the System Volume Information folders. Chris Chris Dauth. Hervey Bay, Australia. YHBA Thermaltake Level 10 GT case , Gigabyte z370 Gaming 7 Motherboard, Intel i7 8700k 6 cores @ 5ghz, 32gb DDR4 ram @ 3000Mhz, Corsair H80i Liquid cooling, nVidia GTX 1070ti Foundation Edition 8Gb, Windows 10 Pro running on a 250gb Western Digital NVMe SSD, Prepar3D v4 Professional Plus 4.5.14.34698 running on a dedicated 1 tb Crucial MX500 SSD, + 4 mechanical 2Tb HDDs.
June 4, 20196 yr Author At this point, the PC does not even recognize the external drive. I can not format it. I attached it to my laptop. It starts to work but nothing shows up as a new drive.
June 4, 20196 yr Reading this and another thread you posted about a bunch of other problems, it appears you have a serious problem with either your hardware or perhaps with a corrupt OS installation. Sometime the fastest solution is to drop back and punt...start with a fresh install of Windows and rebuild Rome. Regards Bob Scott | President and CEO, AVSIM Inc ATP Gulfstream II-III-IV-V Sys1 (MSFS20+24/XPlane12+11): AMD 9800X3D, water 2x240mm, MSI MPG X670E Carbon, 64GB GSkill 6000/30, nVidia RTX4090FE Alienware AW3821DW 38" 21:9 GSync, 2x4TB Crucial T705 PCIe5 + 2x2TB Samsung 990 SSD, EVGA 1000P2 PSU, 12.9" iPad Pro Thrustmaster TCA Boeing Yoke, TCA Airbus Sidestick, Twin TCA Airbus Throttle quads, PFC Cirrus Pedals, Coolermaster HAF932 case Sys2 (P3Dv5/v4): i9-13900KS, water 2x360mm, ASUS Z790 Hero, 32GB GSkill 7800MHz CAS36, ASUS RTX4090 Samsung 55" JS8500 4K TV@60Hz, 3x 2TB WD SN850X 1x 4TB Crucial P3 M.2 NVME SSD, EVGA 1600T2 PSU Fiber link to Yamaha RX-V467 Home Theater Receiver, Polk/Klipsch 6" bookshelf speakers, Polk 12" subwoofer, 12.9" iPad Pro PFC yoke/throttle quad/pedals with custom Hall sensor retrofit, Thermaltake View 71 case, Stream Deck XL button box Sys3 (DCS/P3Dv4/ATS/ETS): AMD 7800X3D, MSI MPG X870E Carbon, Noctua NH-D15S, 64GB GSkill 6000/30, EVGA RTX3090 Alienware AW3420DW 34" 21:9 GSync, Corsair HX1000i PSU, 4TB Crucial T705 PCIe5 + 2TB Samsung 970Evo Plus, TM TCA Officer Pack, Saitek combat pedals, TM Warthog, TM RS300 FF wheel/pedals, Coolermaster HAF XB case
June 5, 20196 yr On 6/3/2019 at 11:22 PM, ChrisDa said: Cloning is not the way to go. You will finish up with a drive on your new 4Tb drive exactly the same size as the original drive D, with the remainder of the 4Tb as un partitioned space. Just mark all the folders on the drive D and copy or move them to the new drive. There is no need to copy over the $RECYCLE.BIN or the System Volume Information folders. Chris I still haven't gone for a program, I have in the past just copied over the entire sim, along with the files on "C" root HD. So this way I can completely restore the sim....in addition I go into the registry (which some only do fearfully) and ensure I have the registry entries to successfully link up the sim. Bryan Wallis aka "fltsimguy" Maple Bay, British Columbia Near CAM3
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