Saturday, January 13, 2018

partitioning - Driveimage XML : unable to retrieve drive layout

DriveImage fails to execute "Drive to Drive" operation. Since the 1TB hard disk is dying, I decided to move the System Drive to newly bought HDD.


It said, unable to retrieve drive layout.


The source drive is a 1TB hard disk ( at Disk 0 , MBR ) , with 4 partitions + 1 System Reserved :



  • System Reserved 100MB NTFS (System, Active, Primary Partition)

  • C: 99.0GB NTFS (Boot, Crash Dump, Primary Partition)

  • P: 300.0GB NTFS (Primary Partition)

  • M: 300.0GB NTFS (Logical Drive)

  • Z: 231.51GB NTFS (Logical Drive)


The destination drive is 3TB hard disk ( at Disk 3 , GPT ) , with 2 partitions :



  • X: 200.0GB NTFS (Primary Partition)

  • W: 546.39GB NTFS (Primary Partition)


Another problem: when I right click on X: drive of Disk 3, the option "Mark Partition as Active" is disabled. Why ?


Note: OS is Windows 7

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