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Raw partiction works fine, but won't clone
Posted: 13 Jan 2016, 20:28
by itla2001
I have a hd that works great and has not drive issues. It boots, and I can run programs and access data. I copied all the data to backup. But I can not clone the drive. The drive is in a windows 7 home 32 bit OptiPlex 790 computer. I tried cloning with a windows 10 pro 64 bit computer. when I attach the hd to the windows 10 computer I get an error saying I need to format drive and I can not access it. Acronis will not clone it saying there are errors on the partition. chkdsk gives an error saying partition is raw. I can see the files if I use UFS recovery software. but again I don't need to recover the data. I don't want to run testdisk and ruin the partition if there is another reason that I'm getting this error.
Re: Raw partiction works fine, but won't clone
Posted: 14 Jan 2016, 09:01
by Fiona
Whats your previous file system?
If you'd like to clone your disk:
Did you try a Linux Live-CD and dd?
On windows, you can try HDD Raw Copy Tool:
http://hddguru.com/software/HDD-Raw-Copy-Tool/
TestDisk doesn't change anything to your disk as long as you don´t use Write, boot sector repair like BackupBS, OrgBS or RepairMFT and RepairFAT.
Fiona
Re: Raw partiction works fine, but won't clone
Posted: 14 Jan 2016, 16:53
by itla2001
The hard drive is NTFS.
It should be visible in any windows system.
I ran seatools diagnostics on the drive and it passed all the tests. So the drive itself is good.
Why would it not be visible as an NTFS drive in a windows 10 computer.
I think cloning is not necessary since the drive is good. But thanks for those suggestions I will keep that in mind when I run across other situations. I am just baffled by the drive only working in the original computer.
Re: Raw partiction works fine, but won't clone
Posted: 15 Jan 2016, 08:01
by Fiona
It should be visible in any windows system.
Well, not necessarily.
Boot sector, file system and ownership can cause some trouble too!
Can you run testdisk and copy and paste the content of your testdisk.log into your next post?
So I'd be able to watch the status of your boot sector and file system.
Fiona