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Hairyloon

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Posted: Sat Aug 18, 12 4:12 pm Post subject: -ing Windoze recovery.
My computer started warning me that the hard drive was dying, so I ran the backup and dug out another drive. For reasons which are not entirely clear, it is refusing to restore the system onto it: says it cannot find a suitable disk, but doesn't say anything much more helpful.

sgt.colon

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Posted: Tue Aug 28, 12 9:55 am Post subject:
Is it a laptop? Is it a Sony laptop? I've found that some laptops want the same size drive as the one that have been removed.

Hairyloon

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Posted: Tue Aug 28, 12 11:01 am Post subject:

sgt.colon wrote:

Is it a laptop? Is it a Sony laptop?

Dell laptop.

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I've found that some laptops want the same size drive as the one that have been removed.

First time round it said the drive was too small so I wiped it to a single partition. Now it just says it is not suitable.

sgt.colon

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Posted: Tue Aug 28, 12 11:19 am Post subject:
and is it the same capacity as the old drive?

Hairyloon

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Posted: Tue Aug 28, 12 11:39 am Post subject:

sgt.colon wrote:

and is it the same capacity as the old drive?

No, but it is bigger than the old windows partition.

sgt.colon

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Posted: Tue Aug 28, 12 12:20 pm Post subject:
Doesn't matter HL. I'm suspecting you are needing the same size drive as the old one.

Hairyloon

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Posted: Thu Aug 30, 12 12:29 pm Post subject:

sgt.colon wrote:

Doesn't matter HL. I'm suspecting you are needing the same size drive as the old one.

If it hadn't said it was too small the first time, I wouldn't hesitate to agree with you, but whatever the problem, why can't it simply say so?

I could get proper annoyed with Windows.

Nature'sgrafter

Joined: 22 Feb 2012
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Posted: Thu Aug 30, 12 2:50 pm Post subject:
silly question when you wiped it (removed partition) did you create a new partition and format it.

Hairyloon

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Posted: Thu Aug 30, 12 3:28 pm Post subject:

Nature'sgrafter wrote:

silly question when you wiped it (removed partition) did you create a new partition and format it.

Good question.
I cannot remember.

sgt.colon

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Posted: Thu Aug 30, 12 3:44 pm Post subject:
It shouldn't really matter as your restore disk will normally create a new partition and format it for you.

Hairyloon

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Posted: Thu Aug 30, 12 4:42 pm Post subject:

sgt.colon wrote:

It shouldn't really matter as your restore disk will normally create a new partition and format it for you.

Is what I thought.

Nature'sgrafter

Joined: 22 Feb 2012
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Posted: Thu Aug 30, 12 8:02 pm Post subject:
yes but the restore process wont tell you if it finds a problem it will just fail at least with a normal format you can see if the disk has issues then again it might be the drive controller and if that's the case the original disk may be fine also, sorry to be a negative nelly and hint it might be a board issue

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