Hard Drive Restores

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Hey All-
I feel like a huge newbie bringing up this subject, especially since
I've been working with computers since '96, but I've never really had to do
it. What is the best way to copy one's old hard drive, in its entirety, onto
a new one? (Like after upgrading to a new hard drive) Usually when upgrading
I would just start from fresh, but I don't think I'd like to do that this
time.
If we come to a consensus, perhaps we should establish an FAQ for
a.c.h.p-h and post it on a regular basis... you know, so you don't get
people like me asking questions you've answered a million times. =)

-Jon
 
jonba said:
Hey All-
I feel like a huge newbie bringing up this subject, especially since
I've been working with computers since '96, but I've never really had to do
it. What is the best way to copy one's old hard drive, in its entirety, onto
a new one? (Like after upgrading to a new hard drive) Usually when upgrading
I would just start from fresh, but I don't think I'd like to do that this
time.
If we come to a consensus, perhaps we should establish an FAQ for
a.c.h.p-h and post it on a regular basis... you know, so you don't get
people like me asking questions you've answered a million times. =)

-Jon
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Hi Jon,

two way to do this

1) Buy yourself a copy of Norton Ghost and do it that way

2), I think it is the western digital tools that will help you install and
partition the new drive and also copy the old one over to the new one. You
can get them at www.wdc.com and you have to make a bootable floppy to do it.

Cheers, Mike
 
Ghost everytime for me...
You just install the new drive (as a slave to your existing drive or
master/slave on IDE2)
Boot into DOS using a boot disk / CD
Launch ghost (only a small exe approx 600k)
Use the disk - disk option selecting the appropriate disks, and your done.
When the new drive is changed to the master drive it boots just like your
old one...
 
Graham said:
Ghost everytime for me...
You just install the new drive (as a slave to your existing drive or
master/slave on IDE2)
Boot into DOS using a boot disk / CD
Launch ghost (only a small exe approx 600k)
Use the disk - disk option selecting the appropriate disks, and your done.
When the new drive is changed to the master drive it boots just like your
old one...
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I agree with you Graham. Ghost must be one of the most useful things to
ever come out of Symantec/Norton. A bit like to Win98 boot floppy that has
CD and scsi support.
Mike
 
Hey All-
I feel like a huge newbie bringing up this subject, especially since
I've been working with computers since '96, but I've never really had to do
it. What is the best way to copy one's old hard drive, in its entirety, onto
a new one? (Like after upgrading to a new hard drive) Usually when upgrading
I would just start from fresh, but I don't think I'd like to do that this
time.
If we come to a consensus, perhaps we should establish an FAQ for
a.c.h.p-h and post it on a regular basis... you know, so you don't get
people like me asking questions you've answered a million times. =)

-Jon
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Many drive makers have free copying software at their sites.Try there
or see other posts.
HTH :)



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Hi,
While we're on Ghost, I'd like to know why a Ghost 2003 re-install (on Win
XP Pro) would keep asking for disk 1, when it didn't in the original
installation? BTW, I had to reinstall because the drive that Ghost was on
had bad sectors).
Peter Cowie
 
jonba said:
Hey All-
I feel like a huge newbie bringing up this subject, especially since
I've been working with computers since '96, but I've never really had to do
it. What is the best way to copy one's old hard drive, in its entirety, onto
a new one? (Like after upgrading to a new hard drive) Usually when upgrading
I would just start from fresh, but I don't think I'd like to do that this
time.
If we come to a consensus, perhaps we should establish an FAQ for
a.c.h.p-h and post it on a regular basis... you know, so you don't get
people like me asking questions you've answered a million times. =)

-Jon
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I just use Ghost to clone entire HD to backup HD. If HD fails just remove
and plug backup in as Master.

FRH
 
What is the best way to copy one's old hard drive, in its entirety, onto
a new one? (Like after upgrading to a new hard drive)
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after formating it & making it active & bootable with a W98bootFD
(before for precaution disable the old one in Bios to later enable it)
putting it in as a slave drive (take care about jumpers!), after
booting with old one to W98, the new one will show as a D: drive & if
the old one is also single partition (C:) drive, just go to:
start menu/run & type:
xcopy c:\*.* d:\ /E /S /H /R /Y /C /K
& press Enter & wait till the drive is copied!
After switch off your PC, replace drives (jumpers change!) & should be
booting win than like nothing happened from new drive ... :_)


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Hey All-
I feel like a huge newbie bringing up this subject, especially since
I've been working with computers since '96, but I've never really had to do
it. What is the best way to copy one's old hard drive, in its entirety, onto
a new one? (Like after upgrading to a new hard drive) Usually when upgrading
I would just start from fresh, but I don't think I'd like to do that this
time.
If we come to a consensus, perhaps we should establish an FAQ for
a.c.h.p-h and post it on a regular basis... you know, so you don't get
people like me asking questions you've answered a million times. =)

-Jon
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How do I clone/backup a hard disk under Windows?
http://home.att.net/~navasgrp/tech/clone_copy.htm

HTH
Geo
 
just go to:
start menu/run & type:
xcopy c:\*.* d:\ /E /S /H /R /Y /C /K
& press Enter & wait till the drive is copied!
After switch off your PC, replace drives (jumpers change!) & should be
booting win than like nothing happened from new drive ... :_)
Click to expand...


WARNING!

XCOPY/XCOPY32, Windows Explorer, PKZIP, WinZip, CD-R/CD-RW mastering
programs, and even most Windows backup programs do not preserve the
short file names that are automatically generated by 32-bit Windows
for files with long file names.

http://home.att.net/~navasgrp/tech/clone_copy.htm

Geo
 
WARNING!

XCOPY/XCOPY32, Windows Explorer, PKZIP, WinZip, CD-R/CD-RW mastering
programs, and even most Windows backup programs do not preserve the
short file names that are automatically generated by 32-bit Windows
for files with long file names.

http://home.att.net/~navasgrp/tech/clone_copy.htm
Click to expand...

I´ve done it few times w/o problem ... & worked!


-- Regards, SPAJKY ®
& visit my site @ http://www.spajky.vze.com
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