Need a IDE->SATA drive imaging solution

[Seth Brundle]

I have a 80GB bootable XP PRO IDE Drive with 70GB of data on it.

I just upgraded to a motherboard that supports both IDE and SATA, and
have 2 new 76GB SATA drives installed. (I plan on making this a
dual-boot SATA-only system with Suse 9.1.)

I want to clone the IDE drive to one of the SATAs. Preferably I would
be able to do this from within the existing XP installation or a
bootable CDROM.

Preferably it will deal with the fact that the new volume is smaller,
but the data will still fit, in an automated fashion where I dont have
to care about either details.

I would prefer not to pay $70 for such a product (like DriveImage) as
this is the first and likely last time I will ever have to do this.

Any suggestions appreciated!

 

[David H. Lipman]

Have you looked at Symantec Ghost 2003 ?

Dave




| I have a 80GB bootable XP PRO IDE Drive with 70GB of data on it.
|
| I just upgraded to a motherboard that supports both IDE and SATA, and
| have 2 new 76GB SATA drives installed. (I plan on making this a
| dual-boot SATA-only system with Suse 9.1.)
|
| I want to clone the IDE drive to one of the SATAs. Preferably I would
| be able to do this from within the existing XP installation or a
| bootable CDROM.
|
| Preferably it will deal with the fact that the new volume is smaller,
| but the data will still fit, in an automated fashion where I dont have
| to care about either details.
|
| I would prefer not to pay $70 for such a product (like DriveImage) as
| this is the first and likely last time I will ever have to do this.
|
| Any suggestions appreciated!

 

[Guest]

I used Ghost on Windows 98. Not much luck with 2000. Not sure about XP.
You'll save yourself a lot of time by installing fresh XP on your new drive, then setting the RAID (or the other way around - see mobo instructions...). And then attaching the old drive, and copying existing data.

Also...

I am running XP Pro/Red Hat on my laptop... It's better to install XP first, and then Linux. Just make sure you designate free space (or partitions) on the drive for Linux to use (see Linux installation guide).

Hope this helps!
Good Luck!

 

[zag]

I use Norton Ghost also - and as the basis of my backup
procedure. Works fine with FAT32, NTFS, and SATA. Runs
from a boot-floppy. Very fast. Wouldn't be without it.
z ------------------------------------------------------

 

[Seth Brundle]

Thank for all the tips - I used Casper XP, it worked perfectly and I
was amazed that I could do it while in Windows!