New HDD Into Computer Problems

[Codeword]

ok then thats the one ill get and hope we can go from there

 

[Codeword]

ok i went to bestbuy and got a seagate free agent goflex 500gb portable hard drive. i hope it will work cause i dont feel like putting anymore money into this fix. when you get back to checking ill be ready!!

 

[karlsnooks]

Excellent! And money spent on a backup drive is never lost money, but rather money well-spent.

OK. Now now matter which approach you decide you want to use, we need to make a 100% system image backup of your failing drive.

But first, you need to make sure that the external drive is formatted as NTFS. Sometimes they come formatted as Fat32 or not formatted at all.

Can you connect the usb drive to your good system and then use Disk Management to format the drive as NTFS?

Do not use the external for any other purpose yet.

If you prefer, you can prepare the USB for use by using DISKPART.

I use DISKPART, but using Disk Management is simpler.

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PREPARE A DISK OR A USB FLASH DRIVE FOR USE



Run CMD.EXE as an Administrator

Enter following commands, each followed by hitting ENTER:
· DiskPart
· List disk (lists disks in your system)
· Select disk <numeral> (without the < and the >)
· Detail disk (info should let you know if you selected correctly)
· Clean ALL (your entire disk is being overwritten with zeros.
This can take a considerable amount of time. Leave off the ALL for a much shorter clean which only cleans the boot sectors)
· CREATE PARTITION PRIMARY (create a primary partition)
· FORMAT FS=NTFS (format the partition)
· ACTIVE (the partition can contain operating system startup files)
· ASSIGN (the next available letter is assigned to disk)
or
ASSIGN Letter=X (Assign X as drive letter. Use the letter of your choice)
· EXIT (only type after Clean is finished. Exits from DiskPart)
· EXIT (this exits from the command shell)

 

[Codeword]

ok so hit a little bump while doing this.

i got all the way down to create partition primary and it says that this operation cant be done on a disk that is being cleaned. does that mean that it didnt stay on long enough to finish the whole thing or what. i cant go on to the rest because there not valid i guess

 

[Codeword]

heres what it say so far:

Seagate freeagent goflex usb device
disk id 000000000
type usb
bus 0
target 0
lun id 0
readonly no
boot disk no
pagefile disk no
hibernation file disk no
crashdump disk no

there are no volumes

DISKPART clean
diskpart succeeded in cleaning the disk
DISKPART create partition primary
virtural disk service error
the operation is not allowed on a disk that is in the process of being cleaned
the arguments you s[ecified for this command are not valid

ok so thats where i am with my errors when you read this i could use some input thanks

 

[karlsnooks]

Codeword,

You've got me stumped. I'm tryiing to speculate as to where and how you erred from the straight and narrow path.

Let's start agian.

Important here is:
If you are using any antivirus other than MSE (Microsoft Security Essentials), then disable the antivirus.

If you are using any firewall other that the Windows Firewall, disable the firewall.

If you are using SpyBot or any of those other "wonder" programs, uninstlll them.

If you are using CloneCD, then uninstall same.

rb: | msconfig | Boot tab | check mark Safe Boot | select the "minimal" radio button | APPLY button | OK button | Restart your computer.

AFter you computer has restarted and you have logged on as an administrator, rb: | CMD.EXE |

Now run those diskpart commands, in the sequence which I gave.

If it still doesn't work,then go back and do the same thing again but this time do a CLEAN ALL (which will take a long time and you must wait,wait,wait for the clean all to finish)

 

[Codeword]

alright so i did what you said and i got past the error im past formst fs=ntfs and got a 0 percent completed. does this part normally take a while if so ill reply with how everything goes after

 

[karlsnooks]

yes, the full format, which I advocate when formatting a new drive, does take some time.

If mfgs had 100% quality control, then a quick format would suffice, however, 100% quality control is a thing of the past.

 

[Codeword]

haha this is gonna take some time im only at 7 percent but it will be worth it to finally be able to use my other comp

 

[karlsnooks]

Patience is a virtue, but who wants to be virtuous?

Yell, when it's finished.

 

[Codeword]

i will thanks for help this far

 

[Codeword]

ok well it finally finished and i did everything on your list so i guess its ready to go. when u get back ill be ready

 

[karlsnooks]

Codeword,
I took a break.

The first thing to do is to make a full system image backup.

In the backup window where you specify which "drives" , you select all of the ones from your failing drive including any system, recovery, or whatever.

Do not make a data backup. Why you ask. Well that system image backup has all of your data. The system image backup has everything.

This is the tutorial which you want to follow to make a system image backup.
System Image Backup - Create
How to Create a System Image Backup in Windows 7

 

[Codeword]

ok so i guess i did somthing wrong i got an error

the operationg failed due to a error encountered with either the source or the destination
the request could not be perforemd because of an I/O error (0x8007045D)

 

[karlsnooks]

what did you try to backup from where to where?

 

[Codeword]

i tried to backup my system system image and C: from my bad computer onto my portable hdd

 

[karlsnooks]

Codeword,
forgive me but a small matter has come up and it will be 4-24 hours before I can get back to you. Any of the chaps out there like GregRocker or BareFootKid who are experts in you overall objective, if you are lurking, then please jump in.

sorry about the delay.

 

[Codeword]

thats fine brink is helping me with the error im having atm and if it gets fixed in time then ill just put around until i figure somthing out

 

[karlsnooks]

Did you get the problem straightened out?

Am back on board.

 

[Codeword]

alright i got the chkdsk and image restore all good to go so is there any more things i have to do and how should i go about restoring it to my new hdd