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I have a little more info to add to the puzzle. I kept experimenting and discovered the drive letters were getting confused. On the first (source) hard-drive, partition 1 is Dell’s utility partition and is unassigned; partition 2 is the system stuff and is ‘c’; partition 3 is data (home of “documents and settings” and hence the user profiles) and is ‘d’; partition 4 is also data and is ‘e’. The second (destination) hard-drive was previously cloned from drive 1 and drives 2 - 4 had been assigned ‘f’ (a copy of ‘c’), ‘i’ (a copy of ‘d’) and ‘j’ (a copy of ‘e’). However, following the new disk-to-disk, ‘i’ and ‘j’ are swapped. So when I boot to the destination drive the “documents and settings” folder is now on ‘e’ instead of ‘d’. Therefore the user profile is not found. All of the orignal assignments were done with Disk Manager and were static. So perhaps that is what is causing the issue. Any suggestions would be appreciated.
I think I know why the letters are being mixed. When you do your boot to validate the data is there, Windows is assigning the drive letters then and is not reassigning the letters once you remove the source drive. If you remove that boot to double check step you’ll more than likely be successful.
Erik,
Thanks for the reply. I usually try to back-up every month, so I will give that a try the next time.