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[scunnyutd]

I have a gamebox which was purchased off Ebay. Apart from being really badly put together on the inside (screws missing, PSU not fastened down, speakers loose etc!!) its been working fine for over a year.

It started to give a windows protection fault on every other reboot, then would do a system restore and be ok until the next reboot. I replaced the SDRAM and all is now fine again.

The HDD has starting to make some pretty hefty clunk noises and so I am thinking of backing up to another HDD is this possible?

The HDD contains 3 partitions, Drive C: has image32 and an Image file.
Drive D: contains lots of GAME folders and Drive E: contains Windows and loader.

Before I take everything apart, should it just be a case of cloning the 3 partitions to a new drive? Or is there more to it?

Thanks in advance

[cliffc]

I have a gamebox which was purchased off Ebay. Apart from being really badly put together on the inside (screws missing, PSU not fastened down, speakers loose etc!!) its been working fine for over a year.

It started to give a windows protection fault on every other reboot, then would do a system restore and be ok until the next reboot. I replaced the SDRAM and all is now fine again.

The HDD has starting to make some pretty hefty clunk noises and so I am thinking of backing up to another HDD is this possible?

The HDD contains 3 partitions, Drive C: has image32 and an Image file.
Drive D: contains lots of GAME folders and Drive E: contains Windows and loader.

Before I take everything apart, should it just be a case of cloning the 3 partitions to a new drive? Or is there more to it?

Thanks in advance

Hi Scunny

Well i am no exprert in Games machines but i am in computers and from what your saying it sounds like you HDD in the machine is about to go tits up.

Now if the drive is formatted in a standard way then the best way to back it up would be to remove the drive from the machine attach it to your home pc and use a program like norton ghost to make an exact copy of each partiton then you would plug the new drive in the home pc and restore the partitons with Norton Ghost. however as well as a copy of ghost you will also need enough free space on your PC HDD to hold the image files.

Cliff C

[scunnyutd]

Thanks for the info, i will give it a go this weekend and see what happens.

[stanmarsh14]

Another way would be to use UBCD (Which is free), and use one of the many HD tools it has....

Use the self booting iso (Which needs to be burned off to a CD), and set up your drives in the same way as cliff describes, then boot up your comp with the CD in.

V4.1.0 Download: Ultimate Boot CD - Download the UBCD

[scunnyutd]

Thanks for the info guys. I took the drive out and made an image of the three partitions then transferred them to a new HDD, plugged it into the gamebox and bingo! all now working with a quiet and hopefully long lasting hard drive I didn't have GHOST, and rather than the easy "torrent" solution I used a program called DRIVEIMAGE XML, free to use and worked first time. Thanks again.