GregWH
April 25th, 2007, 08:45 AM
I have the latest Disk Director for home use.
I work in the industry (mostly self employed but will do contracts) and it sometimes entails rebuilding machines but keeping the same installation going. I do a backup using TI10 from the old hard drive and put the data, using restore mode, on the new one. This means that the newer, larger, hard drive has a section which is unused as TI10 only keeps the data within the same size limits as the original drive. Note that the foregoing isnt the problem but just by way of explanation.
Once the data is all on the new drive, I use Disk Director to "extend" the space available on the new drive to include every bit that there is to get. Normally, this isnt a problem but in a lot of cases, the machine that was in use prior to the data being transferred has been entirely trashed for some reason and thus the drive didnt just power down, it lost power sometimes in the middle of something. This causes sector errors in a lot of cases. If I dont notice the sector errors and correct them prior to transferring the data as outloned above, then DD wont allow expansion of the assigned drive size to the new drive nor will it allow merging if I create a partition. It keeps telling me it cannot do that with a drive with sector errors. If I check for sector errors on the new drive, I dont find them so there is nothing to correct. So, DD wont do its job.
On the other hand, if I use the Windows Disk Management program to extend the partition with data to include any unused space on the drive that isnt allocated, it works every time in that same situation.
So, given that, am I doing anything wrong? Assuming I am not, why is it that I paid for DD if it cant do at least what the Windows prog can?
Thanks for any answers.
I work in the industry (mostly self employed but will do contracts) and it sometimes entails rebuilding machines but keeping the same installation going. I do a backup using TI10 from the old hard drive and put the data, using restore mode, on the new one. This means that the newer, larger, hard drive has a section which is unused as TI10 only keeps the data within the same size limits as the original drive. Note that the foregoing isnt the problem but just by way of explanation.
Once the data is all on the new drive, I use Disk Director to "extend" the space available on the new drive to include every bit that there is to get. Normally, this isnt a problem but in a lot of cases, the machine that was in use prior to the data being transferred has been entirely trashed for some reason and thus the drive didnt just power down, it lost power sometimes in the middle of something. This causes sector errors in a lot of cases. If I dont notice the sector errors and correct them prior to transferring the data as outloned above, then DD wont allow expansion of the assigned drive size to the new drive nor will it allow merging if I create a partition. It keeps telling me it cannot do that with a drive with sector errors. If I check for sector errors on the new drive, I dont find them so there is nothing to correct. So, DD wont do its job.
On the other hand, if I use the Windows Disk Management program to extend the partition with data to include any unused space on the drive that isnt allocated, it works every time in that same situation.
So, given that, am I doing anything wrong? Assuming I am not, why is it that I paid for DD if it cant do at least what the Windows prog can?
Thanks for any answers.