[RTTY] Off Subject Help Needed - Ghosting a hard drive?

[Jan Palmquist]

Hi Don

I have done this a couple of times of the same reason.

As you have a Western Digital HD you use a free tool from them.

See

http://support.wdc.com/product/downloaddetail.asp?swid=119&wdc_lang=en

It allows you to clone your HD to a new one and also
resize the partitions. This software only works if one of the
disks is made by Western Digital.

Seagate has a similar tool for their drives.

You just connect the new HD to the PC on a free slot or via a
USB to IDE/SATA converter. Run the software and when it's done
you just remove the old HD that can also serve as a back-up.

I have done this on old drives before the fail or when I replace
a small drive in a lap top with a larger, faster.

73
Jan - SM5FUG

Don Hill AA5AU skrev 2011-03-12 03:55:
> My main shack computer is a Dell Dimension 4600 running XP Pro that is probably going on 8-10 years old?  I don't know how long I've
> had it.  I'd like to replace the hard drive before it dies.  I have no reason to think it will die soon, it works great, but logic
> tells me I should probably do something about it before it does.  I've lost hard drives in other computers in the past and as we all
> know, it's not a nice thing to have happen.
>
> When we lost the hard drive in my wife's computer (we back most of everything up on a portable drive), I bought a Western Digital
> 320 GB PATA drive and installed it in her PC, reinstalled XP and loaded everything back on.  It was kid of a pain but it all worked.
> So I bought the same drive for my PC (both require a parallel drive).  I do have a secondary drive cable in my PC.
>
> What I'd prefer to do is to "ghost" the new drive from my existing drive if that is what I need to do.  I'd just like to replace my
> existing drive with the new drive so it's bootable and has all the programs already installed on it without having to reinstall
> everything.  What I read on the Internet is a bit confusing and contradicting and I would prefer to hear advice from knowledgeable
> computer gurus here on the reflector that I trust.  I think I have Ghost by Symantec on a disk somewhere as I used to use Norton
> Internet Security or perhaps there are programs out there that are better suited for this.  I just don't know.
>
> Please reply directly.  Thanks!  And sorry for the rtty-unrelated bandwidth.
>
> 73, Don AA5AU
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