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How do I make a Backup or Copy of a Hard Drive? So that I can format the drive, and copy back everything on it, exactly how it was before.
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Ok. I’m trying to use an old hard drive as a slave drive on my new computer, running on XP. When I connect the slave drive to the new computer, XP begins to bootup…but then a screen shows up and starts deleting a bunch of files and fixes sectors.
I’m assuming its doing this on the slave drive, because I cancelled this process, and connected only the master drive, and everything worked fine in XP. So should I continue on with this “deleting”= and fixing sectors” process? I’m not really sure why it has to do this.
Could you describe this screen a little more in detail? I think you’re referring to the screen that says something like “Your D: drive needs to be checked for consistency. Press any key to abort…” If that’s the screen you’re referring to, let it run through. It’s attempting to fix your hard drive. If that’s not the screen, then please explain it in more detail or provide a screenshot? (Take a picture if you have to :p)
The screen is like when the computer performs scandisk in DOS, with the blue XP background. And it just starts executing…deleting stuff and fixing sectors.
There weren’t any options to stop the process, nor did the power button work. I had to yank the power cable off the computer…because I was scared of what it was deleting.
It’s fixing bad sectors and corrupted data as much as it can.
But really, when it says it’s just checking your disk, why would you be paranoid and think it’s doing more than that? 😉
It doesn’t say its checking my disk. Perhaps you misunderstood, I said the screen looks the same as when XP does scandisk.
But actually its deleting files…each line says “Deleting….” and it keeps doing it nonstop, I’m afraid its wiping my hard drive clean.
That’s…odd. Sometimes programs can get into the startup routine of your computer (Symantec PartitionMagic can do this) and do things to your disk.
I don’t know what to say. Maybe you should just consider formatting the drive, I mean, is anything really that important on it? I’m not asking you (it’s your persoanl business), but I’m telling you to ask yourself that question. Is the hassle worth the reward?
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