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I need to recover USB hard drive
~misfit~ wrote:
On 8/07/2019 2:20 PM, Peter Jason wrote: On Fri, 05 Jul 2019 06:04:18 -0400, wrote: I need to try to recover data from a USB hard drive which suddenly has become unreadable. If Macrium can take an image backup of the drive, you might then be able to recover data from this. You have to be lucky though. A bit OT for this thread but Macrium-related... I just cloned a 120GB KingSpec mSATA SSD to a 250GB Samsung 860 EVO. It went well but C/ drive is only 119GB - it didn't scale it to fit the new drive. Is there a setting I should have changed (I'm relatively new to Macrium) or can I re-size it with Macrium? TIA. Cheers, Resize is a dialog in Macrium. Macrium is *not* a replacement for a Partition Manager. You can bodge certain operations to "make" it into a Partition Manager, but then you'll be doing stuff like Boot Repair afterwards. And using such techniques with GPT disks would be out of the question. MBR disks are a bit simpler and you can kinda get away with it. https://postimg.cc/image/458x0anpn/ Click to magnify, then scroll down to the ninth slide where it says "Restored Partition Properties". This idea works best in Macrium, if the right-most partition is the one needing a resize. You can also drag and drop one partition at a time, and do "layout work" with Macrium. But, it may not boot if you do it that way. You would likely need the usage of the "boot repair" menu item on the CD. Paul |
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I need to recover USB hard drive
On 8/07/2019 4:18 PM, Paul wrote:
~misfit~ wrote: On 8/07/2019 2:20 PM, Peter Jason wrote: On Fri, 05 Jul 2019 06:04:18 -0400, wrote: I need to try to recover data from a USB hard drive which suddenly has become unreadable. If Macrium can take an image backup of the drive, you might then be able to recover data from this. You have to be lucky though. A bit OT for this thread but Macrium-related... I just cloned a 120GB KingSpec mSATA SSD to a 250GB Samsung 860 EVO. It went well but C/ drive is only 119GB - it didn't scale it to fit the new drive. Is there a setting I should have changed (I'm relatively new to Macrium) or can I re-size it with Macrium? TIA. Cheers, Resize is a dialog in Macrium. Macrium is *not* a replacement for a Partition Manager. You can bodge certain operations to "make" it into a Partition Manager, but then you'll be doing stuff like Boot Repair afterwards. And using such techniques with GPT disks would be out of the question. MBR disks are a bit simpler and you can kinda get away with it. https://postimg.cc/image/458x0anpn/ Click to magnify, then scroll down to the ninth slide where it says "Restored Partition Properties". This idea works best in Macrium, if the right-most partition is the one needing a resize. You can also drag and drop one partition at a time, and do "layout work" with Macrium. But, it may not boot if you do it that way. You would likely need the usage of the "boot repair" menu item on the CD. Â*Â* Paul Thanks Paul. After posting this (but while the new SSD was still attached via USB) I discovered that I could do what I needed to do in Windows 10 by right clicking 'This PC' then going 'Manage' 'Disk Management' and right-clicking the partition and resizing it. Nice that this sort of thing can now be done natively in Windows. I used to use Acronis for this sort of thing back in the day but lost my registration details and no longer have the email addy I registered with (it was a 'techemail' addy that got deleted because I hadn't checked it for a few months). -- Shaun. "Humans will have advanced a long, long way when religious belief has a cozy little classification in the DSM" David Melville This is not an email and hasn't been checked for viruses by any half-arsed self-promoting software. |
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I need to recover USB hard drive
On 8/07/2019 4:18 PM, Paul wrote:
~misfit~ wrote: On 8/07/2019 2:20 PM, Peter Jason wrote: On Fri, 05 Jul 2019 06:04:18 -0400, wrote: I need to try to recover data from a USB hard drive which suddenly has become unreadable. If Macrium can take an image backup of the drive, you might then be able to recover data from this. You have to be lucky though. A bit OT for this thread but Macrium-related... I just cloned a 120GB KingSpec mSATA SSD to a 250GB Samsung 860 EVO. It went well but C/ drive is only 119GB - it didn't scale it to fit the new drive. Is there a setting I should have changed (I'm relatively new to Macrium) or can I re-size it with Macrium? TIA. Cheers, Resize is a dialog in Macrium. Macrium is *not* a replacement for a Partition Manager. You can bodge certain operations to "make" it into a Partition Manager, but then you'll be doing stuff like Boot Repair afterwards. And using such techniques with GPT disks would be out of the question. MBR disks are a bit simpler and you can kinda get away with it. https://postimg.cc/image/458x0anpn/ Click to magnify, then scroll down to the ninth slide where it says "Restored Partition Properties". This idea works best in Macrium, if the right-most partition is the one needing a resize. You can also drag and drop one partition at a time, and do "layout work" with Macrium. But, it may not boot if you do it that way. You would likely need the usage of the "boot repair" menu item on the CD. Â*Â* Paul Oh and after seeing it recommended on a forum I just downloaded NIUBI Partition Editor (free for home use) https://www.hdd-tool.com/download.html but I've not installed it yet. I'll leave that until I need to re-size partitions etc. if I find Windows can't do it natively. -- Shaun. "Humans will have advanced a long, long way when religious belief has a cozy little classification in the DSM" David Melville This is not an email and hasn't been checked for viruses by any half-arsed self-promoting software. |
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I need to recover USB hard drive
~misfit~ wrote:
On 8/07/2019 4:18 PM, Paul wrote: ~misfit~ wrote: On 8/07/2019 2:20 PM, Peter Jason wrote: On Fri, 05 Jul 2019 06:04:18 -0400, wrote: I need to try to recover data from a USB hard drive which suddenly has become unreadable. If Macrium can take an image backup of the drive, you might then be able to recover data from this. You have to be lucky though. A bit OT for this thread but Macrium-related... I just cloned a 120GB KingSpec mSATA SSD to a 250GB Samsung 860 EVO. It went well but C/ drive is only 119GB - it didn't scale it to fit the new drive. Is there a setting I should have changed (I'm relatively new to Macrium) or can I re-size it with Macrium? TIA. Cheers, Resize is a dialog in Macrium. Macrium is *not* a replacement for a Partition Manager. You can bodge certain operations to "make" it into a Partition Manager, but then you'll be doing stuff like Boot Repair afterwards. And using such techniques with GPT disks would be out of the question. MBR disks are a bit simpler and you can kinda get away with it. https://postimg.cc/image/458x0anpn/ Click to magnify, then scroll down to the ninth slide where it says "Restored Partition Properties". This idea works best in Macrium, if the right-most partition is the one needing a resize. You can also drag and drop one partition at a time, and do "layout work" with Macrium. But, it may not boot if you do it that way. You would likely need the usage of the "boot repair" menu item on the CD. Paul Thanks Paul. After posting this (but while the new SSD was still attached via USB) I discovered that I could do what I needed to do in Windows 10 by right clicking 'This PC' then going 'Manage' 'Disk Management' and right-clicking the partition and resizing it. Nice that this sort of thing can now be done natively in Windows. I used to use Acronis for this sort of thing back in the day but lost my registration details and no longer have the email addy I registered with (it was a 'techemail' addy that got deleted because I hadn't checked it for a few months). One of the unique properties of adjusting the size in Macrium, is the partition is partially defragmented, depending on which direction you change partition size. When you do a clone or a restore of a backup, where the new partition is smaller, I've observed a decent defragmentation occurring. (This is probably coincidental and not done on purpose.) As for the Disk Management Shrink/Expand, if you open the Optimize dialog, then go back to Disk Management and request a Shrink, you can watch the Optimize dialog "come alive" as it is tasked with moving the files around so the partition will shrink. The OS Shrink cannot shrink a partition below 50%. This is caused by some metadata that the defragmenter refuses to move. A defragmenter like Raxco PerfectDisk can move it. And the NTFS suite in GParted can move stuff like that too (it's easy, because the partition is dismounted for that to happen). Real partition managers should not have a problem with this, but at least some of them will "schedule a reboot" as they need to dismount the file system to carry out your request. The OS one does this "online", and never attempts the reboot route. Paul |
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