- Copying HHD Images
- Posted by Veritech on July 7th, 2005
Hey everyone
I wanna migrate to a new HDD, and can't bothered with the whole win xp
install thing, and sort out this that and the other.
Whats the cheap easy way to make and copy HDD Images.
In case it helps i'm going from a 20GB and a 15GB to a 80Gb.
Any suggestions are welcome
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- Posted by SteveH on July 8th, 2005
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SteveH
- Posted by kony on July 8th, 2005
On Thu, 07 Jul 2005 23:41:34 GMT, "Veritech"
<avis.dalrymple@ntlworld.com> wrote:
LOL.
You really don't have a choice as to whether you can be
bothered or not. Either you can or can't, and if you can't,
it doesn't matter the tiniest bit if it bothers you.
Use the HDD manufacturer's utility disc to clone the discs
to the new one. Then unplug the old OS disc and put the new
one in it's local drive position (cable and master/slave
position). That is the easiest since you don't know of
alternate methods and would have to learn other softwares
like Ghost or Driveimage.
- Posted by Timothy Daniels on July 8th, 2005
"SteveH" inquired:
Or FSS Dev's Casper XP? Or Acronis' True Image?
If you have a Maxtor hard drive, you can even download
MaxBlast to do the cloning. (But it only works for Maxtor
drives.)
*TimDaniels*
- Posted by pete on July 8th, 2005
Veritech,
Migrate easy is a great program, it can clone to a larger HD or to a smaller
HD, (as long as the date is able to fit on the smaller one).
This even works on Sata drives, works using XP not DOS.
Ghost and Drive image, did not work with my Adaptec card, as this only has
XP drivers( no, Adaptec do not supply a dos driver).
Ghost/ Drive image goes to DOS to clone.
It came free on a PC mag, you only need to register online to get a Serial
Number.
If you can not find a copy, send me an email and I will send you it to you.
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- Posted by Veritech on July 8th, 2005
I got two maxtors, but i was planning on switching to a Western Digital,
does maxblast look for ID no.s and such, or could i get away with it?
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- Posted by Veritech on July 8th, 2005
thanks pete
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- Posted by Veritech on July 8th, 2005
just realized something
my current drives are IDE, i was gonna get a SATA drive. Now you have to
install sata raid drivers when you do a clean install, in order for the
chipset to recognize the drive, and me to be able to boot the system, right.
So where do the drivers install, the bios or the MBR/HDD?
If its later, thats easy cause i can install them before i switch, however
its the first, how can i install the drivers without re-installing windows?
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- Posted by pete on July 8th, 2005
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yes, lol
XP (HDD) Press F6 when doing clean install to load the XP driver, The cd you
got with the card should make a floppy driver disk.
You can't if it's an Adaptec, ( I don't know about out cards.
This was the problem I had and so used Easy migrate to clone to my Ide to my
new Sata drive.
Note this program will work Sata to Sata, Sata to Ide, Ide to Sata, all
covered!
- Posted by Timothy Daniels on July 8th, 2005
"Veritech" wrote:
The Maxtor website says that MaxBlast will work only with
Maxtor HDs, but I haven't experimented with it to see if
only the source HD needs to be a Maxtor. It seems to me,
though, that Maxtor would be most interested in the *destination*
drive being a Maxtor. Since my BIOS lists the model no.
of the drive, I think MaxBlast can find it as well.
*TimDaniels*
- Posted by kony on July 8th, 2005
On Fri, 8 Jul 2005 11:36:53 -0700, "Timothy Daniels"
<TDaniels@NoSpamDot.com> wrote:
No it does not need be the source.
In the earlier days of Maxblast it didnt' even require a
Maxtor drive in the system, but then I don't recall if it
were bug-free and as useful.
It doesn't matter though- practically all HDD manufacturers
have such a utility, there is no point in trying to use
Maxblast without a Maxtor drive installed.
- Posted by bearman on July 8th, 2005
"Veritech" <avis.dalrymple@ntlworld.com> wrote in message
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Western Digital drives come with a CD called Data Guard. It lets you copy
everything from your old drive to your new drive and make the new drive
bootable (if you want). I've used it three times with no problems. I don't
think it comes with OEM drives, though; you have to buy the retail package.
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- Posted by kony on July 8th, 2005
On Fri, 8 Jul 2005 14:41:55 -0600, "bearman" <noyb@home.com>
wrote:
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.... or download from their website
