I don’t want to jeopardize my only working system: Acer restoration depends on a working restore partition which is not available on the other drives they are empty. This why I ask: after the prior attempts, I want hands-on info from experienced users who have tried this. Might this work?īasically I want to get working drives for both of the netbooks and make a spare backup drive just in case. The other possibility is using another computer and 2 USB bridges to connect the working and empty drives to do the transfer. I have tried to get information out of Avanquest for the Perfect Image but get no answer after several inquiries. My supposition is that an HDD with no operable OS cannot provide the drivers necessary for the Optical drive to connect, at least not using the Perfect Image.Īnyway, my question is this for users of Macrium Reflect (preferably the free version) who have done a cloning: how well did it work? Did it actually do a proper transfer of the OS while leaving the original drive OS intact? To get to this point, I had to go out and buy another Aspire One to get a working OS XP home with the idea of cloning the drive.

I had also tried to import a backup disk image back ONTO the nuked drive via an outboard backup drive and an external optical USB drive which never got anywhere. The process gave me a proper copy on the receiving HDD but left the source drive nuked! This happened twice: in one instance, the 160GB source drive had 4 partitions shown on it (this through XP system tools disk management) with one stating 984 GB! Oy. I have an Acer netbook model Aspire One D-150 in which I had used Perfect Image 12 to clone the HDD to another drive using a USB-bridge cable to the outboard SATA drive.

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