Cloning a Hard Drive

[CACtain Planet]

So I have an internal hard drive that only has movies and I use it to connect to my ASUS O'Play. Recently the movies have been playing slow and the hard drive is not being recognized by windows. I know the information is still on the hard drive because when I plug it in the media player the files still show up. I just ordered a new hard drive so that I can clone all of the information in the old hard drive to the new one. Is there any software for windows out there that will effectively facilitate this process?

 

[daze23]

well you can just copy everything. the issue is what's causing it to not be recognized by windows

 

[CACtain Planet]

well you can just copy everything. the issue is what's causing it to not be recognized by windows

Yea thats the problem..Im wondering about using CloneZilla and I heard Acronis could be good as well for my problem. Im not trying to spend 100 dollars at best buy :fckup:

 

[aqualung]

Pay the best buy geek squad to do it for ya.

--> aq out <--

 

[Atsym Sknyfs]

If you have a external case laying around try using that ...
Try defragging the drive...

once you recognize the drive just do a drop a drop copy ... it might be faster than cloning

Question: What media player sees the files? if its windows media player than how is that working but windows isnt seeing the drive?

look for one of those DOS disk recovery programs.

 

[daze23]

he says it's an internal HDD, but it sounds like an external...

 

[CACtain Planet]

If you have a external case laying around try using that ...
Try defragging the drive...

once you recognize the drive just do a drop a drop copy ... it might be faster than cloning

Question: What media player sees the files? if its windows media player than how is that working but windows isnt seeing the drive?

look for one of those DOS disk recovery programs.

Its an internal hard drive that im using in an external case to connect to the ASUS O'play media player. The media player recognizes the files but Windows doesnt and it is asking me to reformat the hard drive. I just ordered a 4 tb external and im trying to figure out how to get the files on the old hard drive to that

 

[daze23]

Its an internal hard drive that im using in an external case to connect to the ASUS O'play media player. The media player recognizes the files but Windows doesnt and it is asking me to reformat the hard drive. I just ordered a 4 tb external and im trying to figure out how to get the files on the old hard drive to that

hmm, have you tried to access it on another computer?

 

[CACtain Planet]

hmm, have you tried to access it on another computer?

Yea I tried it on XP and still the same problem. The drive is recognized but windows is asking to reformat the hard drive when I click on it. So basically I cant access the files in windows. Im experimenting with Acronis and CloneZilla with some other drives that have to see how it works.

 

[Atsym Sknyfs]

Its an internal hard drive that im using in an external case to connect to the ASUS O'play media player. The media player recognizes the files but Windows doesnt and it is asking me to reformat the hard drive. I just ordered a 4 tb external and im trying to figure out how to get the files on the old hard drive to that

Can you try a different external case?

if not your last option may be a dos recovery program...

Hold up.. were you ever able to access it in windows? the Asus might be using an unrecognizable format.. something only it can see