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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

 

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Following as I was interested in this program as well.

 


Bryan Wallis aka "fltsimguy"

Maple Bay, British Columbia

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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

 

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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. 

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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

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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"

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