Anna
Thu Mar 27 09:41:12 PDT 2008
> BobK wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> I just replaced my boot drive with a larger Seagate ATA 320 Gig 16 MB
>> cache on a five year old computer. I used Seagate Tools to copy my old
>> boot drive to my new drive and all went well. I can now boot from the
>> new drive.
>>
>> My Computer shows 388 Gigs of Free Space with WinXP Pro SP2 taking up
>> 10 Gigs for a total of 298 Gigs. Disk Manager shows one large
>> partition in healthy condition.
>>
>> I would like to partition the drive to have a second partition at the
>> end. Essentially I want to divide the drive in half so I have a C and
>> D drive. My old drive has a drive D that has all my programs on it and I
>> want to copy that onto a new partition on the new drive.
>>
>> However, when I run the partitioning program from Seagate Tools, it
>> says that there is no free space. Does anyone know what I should do to
>> get a partition going on the new drive?
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Bob
> I am not sure that is correct. The Seagate Tools only permits working with
> one partition at a time. The original drive is partitioned into two drives
> (C & D). The programs were on a D drive and I am trying put them in the
> same spot on the new drive.
>
> I reformatted the new drive and created two partitions. However, when I
> copied the boot partition it seems to have removed the second partition. I
> am not sure why it did that. Does anyone know what might have gone wrong?
> I want to retain two partitions on the new drive with C being the boot
> drive and D being all my programs.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Bob
> Copying from the older boot drive, the Seagate tools would be
> "duplicating" the old partition(s) from the old drive and replace the
> partition(s) on new drive.
>
>
>
> Seagate Tools seems to have a separate selection for copying the boot
> drive. You have to select the whole new drive as the target. When using
> the boot drive copy, it seems to ignore the second partition on the old
> drive and places the old boot drive on a single partition occupying the
> whole new drive. So it seems to remove my second partition when creating
> the boot drive.
>
> I am probably doing something wrong but I am not sure what. Any ideas?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Bob
Bob:
I'm assuming that what you want to do is clone the contents of your old
HDD - it has two partitions - to a new larger HDD - so that the new HDD will
similarly contain two partitions. And that your old HDD is a *single* HDD
containing the two partitions.
Ordinarily (since you're using a Seagate HDD) one should use the Seagate
DiscWizard (freely available from their web site) to accomplish this. If
memory serves me correctly the Seagate disk copying utility is a derivative
of the Acronis True Image disk-cloning program. To the best of my knowledge
it does not have the capability of cloning the contents of one HDD to
another HDD on a partition-to-partition basis - rather, it's a
"disk-to-disk" cloning process. Again, if I recall correctly, the DiscWizard
will create the two partitions on the "destination" HDD, however it will be
on a percentage basis dependent upon the percentage of disk space used on
the "source" HDD.
So - in your case - assuming for example that your "source" HDD was an 80 GB
HDD and your C: partition was (approx) 40 GB and your D: partition was
(approx) 40 GB (you apparently have indicated that you prefer a 50 - 50
split) - the DiscWizard will similarly divide your 320 GB "destination" HDD
(actually about 298 GB in binary terms) so that the C: partition will be 149
GB (approx) and the D: partition will be 149 GB (approx). Presumably this is
acceptable to you.
Again, I believe I'm correct in describing how the Seagate DiscWizard
performs in situations such as yours but I haven't worked with the program
in some time. So if I'm incorrect re the above, I trust some current user
will correct me.
BTW, their are third-party disk-cloning programs that perform the
disk-cloning operations on a partition-to-partition basis so you may want to
consider using one of them in the future for routine disk-cloning operations
in connection with establishing & maintaining a comprehensive backup program
that can be used on a routine basis. The particular program that we
recommend is the Casper 4 program (
http://www.fssdev.com).
Anna