- Copying OS to new HDD
- Posted by James E Middleton on January 16th, 2006
A few weeks or a month or so ago I saw a thread that mentioned several
applications for copying the contents of the current drive to a new drive.
I've searched and searched to no avail. Besides Ghost, which doesn't seem to
work with my configuration, does anyone have any suggestions?
My situation: SATA 80 GB, Dual boot with 3 partitions - Windows 2000,
Wnidows XP Pro, and a small storage partition. I want to migrate to a 120 GB
IDE drive, and adjust the size of the partitions if possible.
TIA
- Posted by DL on January 16th, 2006
Acronis True Image
"James E Middleton" <someone@microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> A few weeks or a month or so ago I saw a thread that mentioned several
> applications for copying the contents of the current drive to a new drive.
> I've searched and searched to no avail. Besides Ghost, which doesn't seem
to
> work with my configuration, does anyone have any suggestions?
>
> My situation: SATA 80 GB, Dual boot with 3 partitions - Windows 2000,
> Wnidows XP Pro, and a small storage partition. I want to migrate to a 120
GB
> IDE drive, and adjust the size of the partitions if possible.
>
> TIA
>
>
- Posted by James E Middleton on January 17th, 2006
Any idea about the limitations of the trial?
"DL" <dl@spoofmail.nothere> wrote in message
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> Acronis True Image
>
> "James E Middleton" <someone@microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:OMgCRPvGGHA.3200@tk2msftngp13.phx.gbl...
>> A few weeks or a month or so ago I saw a thread that mentioned several
>> applications for copying the contents of the current drive to a new
>> drive.
>> I've searched and searched to no avail. Besides Ghost, which doesn't seem
> to
>> work with my configuration, does anyone have any suggestions?
>>
>> My situation: SATA 80 GB, Dual boot with 3 partitions - Windows 2000,
>> Wnidows XP Pro, and a small storage partition. I want to migrate to a 120
> GB
>> IDE drive, and adjust the size of the partitions if possible.
>>
>> TIA
>>
>>
>
>
- Posted by Ron Martell on January 17th, 2006
"James E Middleton" <someone@microsoft.com> wrote:
>A few weeks or a month or so ago I saw a thread that mentioned several
>applications for copying the contents of the current drive to a new drive.
>I've searched and searched to no avail. Besides Ghost, which doesn't seem to
>work with my configuration, does anyone have any suggestions?
>
>My situation: SATA 80 GB, Dual boot with 3 partitions - Windows 2000,
>Wnidows XP Pro, and a small storage partition. I want to migrate to a 120 GB
>IDE drive, and adjust the size of the partitions if possible.
>
>TIA
>
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- Posted by FG on January 17th, 2006
Are you sure you have the latest version of Ghost ?
"James E Middleton" <someone@microsoft.com> a écrit dans le message de news:
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> Any idea about the limitations of the trial?
>
> "DL" <dl@spoofmail.nothere> wrote in message
> news:O0$q$WvGGHA.2300@TK2MSFTNGP15.phx.gbl...
>> Acronis True Image
>>
>> "James E Middleton" <someone@microsoft.com> wrote in message
>> news:OMgCRPvGGHA.3200@tk2msftngp13.phx.gbl...
>>> A few weeks or a month or so ago I saw a thread that mentioned several
>>> applications for copying the contents of the current drive to a new
>>> drive.
>>> I've searched and searched to no avail. Besides Ghost, which doesn't
>>> seem
>> to
>>> work with my configuration, does anyone have any suggestions?
>>>
>>> My situation: SATA 80 GB, Dual boot with 3 partitions - Windows 2000,
>>> Wnidows XP Pro, and a small storage partition. I want to migrate to a
>>> 120
>> GB
>>> IDE drive, and adjust the size of the partitions if possible.
>>>
>>> TIA
>>>
>>>
>>
>>
>
>
- Posted by ChrisC on January 17th, 2006
Hi, have you tried maxtor maxblast 4 for windows, it works from within
windows quite nicely although I'm not sure if it will actually work with
your configuration, as you are going from sata to ide, but there's no harm
in trying.
ChrisC
http://www.maxtor.com/portal/site/Ma...&downloadID=58
"FG" <personne@videotron.cam> wrote in message
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> Are you sure you have the latest version of Ghost ?
>
>
> "James E Middleton" <someone@microsoft.com> a écrit dans le message de
> news: %23T1xggxGGHA.1312@TK2MSFTNGP09.phx.gbl...
>> Any idea about the limitations of the trial?
>>
>> "DL" <dl@spoofmail.nothere> wrote in message
>> news:O0$q$WvGGHA.2300@TK2MSFTNGP15.phx.gbl...
>>> Acronis True Image
>>>
>>> "James E Middleton" <someone@microsoft.com> wrote in message
>>> news:OMgCRPvGGHA.3200@tk2msftngp13.phx.gbl...
>>>> A few weeks or a month or so ago I saw a thread that mentioned several
>>>> applications for copying the contents of the current drive to a new
>>>> drive.
>>>> I've searched and searched to no avail. Besides Ghost, which doesn't
>>>> seem
>>> to
>>>> work with my configuration, does anyone have any suggestions?
>>>>
>>>> My situation: SATA 80 GB, Dual boot with 3 partitions - Windows 2000,
>>>> Wnidows XP Pro, and a small storage partition. I want to migrate to a
>>>> 120
>>> GB
>>>> IDE drive, and adjust the size of the partitions if possible.
>>>>
>>>> TIA
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
>>
>
>
- Posted by James E Middleton on January 17th, 2006
I received a full version when I purchased an Iomega external drive. I tried
it on two different systems with the same results, after choosing
preferences and rebooting, nothing happened.
On one system, the C drive was IDE, on the other SATA. I went through all
the help files, downloaded the latest patches, even tried adding switches to
the command lines, nothing. It was pretty frustrating.
The latest version looks better but after what I went through with this
version, I hesitate.
I'm think I'm going to try True Image.
"FG" <personne@videotron.cam> wrote in message
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> Are you sure you have the latest version of Ghost ?
>
>
> "James E Middleton" <someone@microsoft.com> a écrit dans le message de
> news: %23T1xggxGGHA.1312@TK2MSFTNGP09.phx.gbl...
>> Any idea about the limitations of the trial?
>>
>> "DL" <dl@spoofmail.nothere> wrote in message
>> news:O0$q$WvGGHA.2300@TK2MSFTNGP15.phx.gbl...
>>> Acronis True Image
>>>
>>> "James E Middleton" <someone@microsoft.com> wrote in message
>>> news:OMgCRPvGGHA.3200@tk2msftngp13.phx.gbl...
>>>> A few weeks or a month or so ago I saw a thread that mentioned several
>>>> applications for copying the contents of the current drive to a new
>>>> drive.
>>>> I've searched and searched to no avail. Besides Ghost, which doesn't
>>>> seem
>>> to
>>>> work with my configuration, does anyone have any suggestions?
>>>>
>>>> My situation: SATA 80 GB, Dual boot with 3 partitions - Windows 2000,
>>>> Wnidows XP Pro, and a small storage partition. I want to migrate to a
>>>> 120
>>> GB
>>>> IDE drive, and adjust the size of the partitions if possible.
>>>>
>>>> TIA
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
>>
>
>
- Posted by Michael W. Ryder on January 18th, 2006
James E Middleton wrote:
> I received a full version when I purchased an Iomega external drive. I tried
> it on two different systems with the same results, after choosing
> preferences and rebooting, nothing happened.
>
> On one system, the C drive was IDE, on the other SATA. I went through all
> the help files, downloaded the latest patches, even tried adding switches to
> the command lines, nothing. It was pretty frustrating.
>
When I used Ghost 2003 to clone my C: drive I had to boot into Safe Mode
before it would properly, but after that it has worked fine.
> The latest version looks better but after what I went through with this
> version, I hesitate.
>
> I'm think I'm going to try True Image.
>
>
> "FG" <personne@videotron.cam> wrote in message
> news:%23yqWHm3GGHA.2940@tk2msftngp13.phx.gbl...
>
>>Are you sure you have the latest version of Ghost ?
>>
>>
>>"James E Middleton" <someone@microsoft.com> a écrit dans le message de
>>news: %23T1xggxGGHA.1312@TK2MSFTNGP09.phx.gbl...
>>
>>>Any idea about the limitations of the trial?
>>>
>>>"DL" <dl@spoofmail.nothere> wrote in message
>>>news:O0$q$WvGGHA.2300@TK2MSFTNGP15.phx.gbl...
>>>
>>>>Acronis True Image
>>>>
>>>>"James E Middleton" <someone@microsoft.com> wrote in message
>>>>news:OMgCRPvGGHA.3200@tk2msftngp13.phx.gbl.. .
>>>>
>>>>>A few weeks or a month or so ago I saw a thread that mentioned several
>>>>>applications for copying the contents of the current drive to a new
>>>>>drive.
>>>>>I've searched and searched to no avail. Besides Ghost, which doesn't
>>>>>seem
>>>>
>>>>to
>>>>
>>>>>work with my configuration, does anyone have any suggestions?
>>>>>
>>>>>My situation: SATA 80 GB, Dual boot with 3 partitions - Windows 2000,
>>>>>Wnidows XP Pro, and a small storage partition. I want to migrate to a
>>>>>120
>>>>
>>>>GB
>>>>
>>>>>IDE drive, and adjust the size of the partitions if possible.
>>>>>
>>>>>TIA
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>
>
>
- Posted by Patrick Keenan on January 18th, 2006
"James E Middleton" <someone@microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> Any idea about the limitations of the trial?
IIRC, it's 15 days of full functionality, then unlimited time of no
functionality.
The Acronis True Image trial works very well. I've used it on a number of
systems to migrate to new drives.
HTH
-pk
>
> "DL" <dl@spoofmail.nothere> wrote in message
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> > Acronis True Image
> >
> > "James E Middleton" <someone@microsoft.com> wrote in message
> > news:OMgCRPvGGHA.3200@tk2msftngp13.phx.gbl...
> >> A few weeks or a month or so ago I saw a thread that mentioned several
> >> applications for copying the contents of the current drive to a new
> >> drive.
> >> I've searched and searched to no avail. Besides Ghost, which doesn't
seem
> > to
> >> work with my configuration, does anyone have any suggestions?
> >>
> >> My situation: SATA 80 GB, Dual boot with 3 partitions - Windows 2000,
> >> Wnidows XP Pro, and a small storage partition. I want to migrate to a
120
> > GB
> >> IDE drive, and adjust the size of the partitions if possible.
> >>
> >> TIA
> >>
> >>
> >
> >
>
>