Replacing boot drive: need; would like to hear experiences

[Rockin Ronnie]

I have a P4 2gig on an Asus P4T-E which came with a 40 gig Maxtor. It has
been fine but I have run out of space.

I picked up a 120 gig Seagate Barracuda and want to use it as the boot drive
while discarding the 40 gig drive or allocate it as storage. I went to
Seagate's site and found Drivewizard which appears to be what I need to
image the old drive. Doe is work as well they advertise? Any positive or
negative experiences.

Ron

 

[Ruel Smith (Big Daddy)]

I have a P4 2gig on an Asus P4T-E which came with a 40 gig Maxtor. It has
been fine but I have run out of space.

I picked up a 120 gig Seagate Barracuda and want to use it as the boot
drive while discarding the 40 gig drive or allocate it as storage. I went
to Seagate's site and found Drivewizard which appears to be what I need to
image the old drive. Doe is work as well they advertise? Any positive or
negative experiences.

I'm not weighing in on the Drivewizard experience, but I bet it's something
like Drive Image from Powerquest dumbed down with their particular branding
of it. I highly doubt Seagate paid programmers to do something like this
when they could simply license someone elses software on the cheap for the
number of licenses they'd get. Drive Image does a great job of ghosting a
drive.

My main reason for punching in here is to recommend that you don't just
throw away the old drive. You could use it to keep your files on and mount
it as a folder in WinXP so that it's seemless as if it's just one big
drive. Therefore, you'd get 160 MB of drive space. Just a thought...



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Something less...

 

[Mr. Slow]

I have a P4 2gig on an Asus P4T-E which came with a 40 gig Maxtor. It has
been fine but I have run out of space.

I picked up a 120 gig Seagate Barracuda and want to use it as the boot drive
while discarding the 40 gig drive or allocate it as storage. I went to
Seagate's site and found Drivewizard which appears to be what I need to
image the old drive. Doe is work as well they advertise? Any positive or
negative experiences.

Ron

I have used Seagate Discwizard successfully a number of times and not always
with Seagate drives. I can recommend it, but it isn't always
straightforward. Depending on the IDE Master/Slave configuration it
sometimes refers to a "non-standard configuration" which is a little
baffling. But as long as you understand the issues involved, it should be
fine.

 

[Rockin Ronnie]

I have used Seagate Discwizard successfully a number of times and not always
with Seagate drives. I can recommend it, but it isn't always
straightforward. Depending on the IDE Master/Slave configuration it
sometimes refers to a "non-standard configuration" which is a little
baffling. But as long as you understand the issues involved, it should be
fine.

How should I set things up. Both drives on the primary; one drive on
Primary, the other secondary?

Ron