Partitions 'lost in space'

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I had an ailing Master HDD which I used Acronis MigrateEasy on to 'clone' the original. You set the 'new' HDD as 'Slave' and just run it. That worked fine But the other HDD that was originally the slave is now not allocated drive letters for its partitions and my copy of Acronis Disk Director which would fix the problem is on the slave HDD. Can anyone help?

sw

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Sorry, I forgot - running Win XP Pro with SP2 installed!

[Panama Red]

I've only used Partition Magic, not the Acronis products. Seems like you would need to format and partition the new drive first before the cloning operation. Then clone each partition individually. What does the Acronis Help files suggest?

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Originally Posted by Panama Red I've only used Partition Magic, not the Acronis products. Seems like you would need to format and partition the new drive first before the cloning operation. Then clone each partition individually. What does the Acronis Help files suggest?

I think you've misunderstood - I started with a 40GB Master (partitions C thru U all FAT32) and 120GB Slave (partitions V & W both NTFS). The 40GB was very ill. I got a 160GB to replace it. With MigrateEasy. You put your new drive on as a Slave then run the software on AUTO. It increased all the cluster sizes by 4, so all partitions were 4x as big and migrated the data across. This all went without a hitch. I removed the 40GB drive, changed the 160GB to Master and plugged in back in place of the 40GB drive. I then reconnected the original slave 120GB drive (which had been disconnected throughout the migration) gain as a slave. I rebooted :- everything on the Master drive is fine, the partitions are THERE on the Slave and Device Manager is happy the slave HDD is OK, its just the partitions dont have a drive letter associated with them and Win XP doesnt recognise them. I also have Acronis Disk Director which would fix this, but I just got it and had put it on the W partition as I realised the 40GB was on the way out. Is there some Management tool within XP Pro that can fix this?

sw

Thanks for trying anyway!

[Panama Red]

Sorry bout that. Your second explanation is much clearer. Have you tried to use XP's Disk Management to rename the partitions? It's under Control Panel/Admin Tools/Computer Management. Don't know if it will help but you might try setting both drives to Cable Select instead of Master/Slave.

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Originally Posted by Panama Red Have you tried to use XP's Disk Management to rename the partitions? It's under Control Panel/Admin Tools/Computer Management. Don't know if it will help but you might try setting both drives to Cable Select instead of Master/Slave.

I think I should! What a n00b I am - there again I had only had 8hrs sleep in 48 hrs so wasnt thinking

sw

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Panama Red, thanks for your help, it is just fine now.

sw

[Panama Red]

Excellent! See what a little rest will do for ya?