Any tips on formatting? A guide perhaps? I assume I will need to download drivers from western digitals site?
Ok so when the damaged HDD is plugged into the desktop it spins up but freezes my "my computer" but when I unplug the bad HDD "my computer" works...
Hmmm my old desktop (laptop is my primary pc) is freezing any time I try to open up my computer. I was troubleshooting this a few weeks ago and...
Also it's strange that the drive shows as healthy in disk management cause when I run the western digital diagnostic tool it fails the smart scan....
Under disk management it lists the drive as healthy. Also says 298gb capacity with 298gb free space. That's weird cause the thing is almost...
So I have an external HDD that spins up and I can see it when I open my computer but I am unable to access it. Is this thing down for the count...
Well I think I was able to run chkdsk C: /r like this, Went to C:>Right click>properties>tools>error check>scan for and attempt recovery of bad...
So I ran the HDD utility. Found one or more corrupted sectors. Ran the fix, operation completed successfully and then rebooted. Upon...
I'm gonna pop the old 80gb drive into the laptop and use its usb2.0 for now.
OK so at the end of mounting acronis gave the following error Error, cannot assign a drive letter to a partition from backup drive Not sure...
OK the image is made. I connected the external to my desktop. I am attempting to mount the image but I'm stuck at the image selection screen....
Yes it's installed on the desktop. I will try that and let you know in about...3 hours or so. Thanks so much for all the help.
About 66% of the way through C drive right now. "I take it you don't have an XP install cd." Nope. The page I linked does have a link to a...
As a side note: I found this concerning the blue screen of death message I am receiving (unmountable boot volume)....
"Once the backup image is complete, if you can mount it you should be able to copy out your music files (and whatever else you want), except for...
First some backgroud. About 6 months ago I upgraded my 80GB HDD to a 160GB one. I used acronis true image to accomplish this and it went fine....
Anyone know?
OK so I ran my hard drives utility feature and it gives me two options. 1) Erase the whole disk or 2) rewrite the corrupted sectors. So I'm...
So out of nowhere (at elast to my untrained eye) I my pc started running funny. It would suddengly stop responding then I would get a blue screen...
Can't seem to find any posts referring to that. Heres what disk manager currently shows. As you can see its showing an 80gb drive when in...
Well I'm happy to say I'm online with the new HDD in the laptop. Last time I didn't check the MBR and track 0. Also found instruction by another...
Couple more things I did not try to run acronis in windows, I just used the full version when prompted from the bootable rescue media. So when i...
I just reconnected the hitachi in the external again and hooked it up to the desktop. It shows Disk 1 as 73.12gb, G: 51.23gb NTFS, 21.89gb...
Well...lot of problems since my last post. So I got rid of the clone I made (reformatted the external HDD). At that point I made a backup...
Another new problem. I was using the trial version. I just bought the whole thing. So I download it and install it. But I still am getting the...
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