rod speed help changing drive

[Rod Speed]

This is 'middle posting' with some trimming,

Trouble is you trimmed what you were trying to add, silly |-)

mainly in rhinestone with a pretty edging of sequins.

You know what those unspeakable frogs say about you poms ?

 

[chrisv]

Trouble is you trimmed what you were trying to add, silly |-)

Ron's got himself a friend. "David Williams" - a guy so damned stupid
that he doesn't even leave a blank line between his post and the one
that follows.

I guess that whole "paragraph" thing isn't relevant with today's
technology, eh Ron^Hd?

 

[Rod Speed]

Why didnt you clean up this mess, child ?

"David Williams" - a guy so damned stupid that he doesn't even
leave a blank line between his post and the one that follows.

"chrisv" - gutless clown so pathetic that all it ever
comments on is the fine detail of posting styles.

You can get medication for obsessive compulsive disorders now apparently.

Reams of its puerile shit flushed where it belongs.

 

[David Williams]

What a fine user group this is! Just in case some of you clowns have your
heads so far up your arses that you can't see further than your colon, Rod
is the only one to have offered any practical help! Most of the other
contributors have been only too happy to rush off a post complaining of
missed spaces, and top posting, but seemingly have so little technical
ability that this is where their knowledge base is sited: In user group
semantics. If I ever need to know where to put a comma, or how to Make my
postings politically correct then Chris, Mike T, you'll be my first
contacts. However if I need help with anything more complex than where to
find a particular key on the keyboard, I'll ask Rod.
love y'all - be sweet now!

 

[Colin Watters]

Because others may well be interested in the answer too.

Yes please!

So as I understand it the recommended proceedure goes...

Use DI
Shutdown (Don't reboot)
Physically remove drive containing the copy.

That last bit is a pain if you want to do this on a regular basis? (Nightly)
Any way to do it without having to unplug the drive. I'm bound to forget or
something.

 

[Rod Speed]

Yes please!

So as I understand it the recommended proceedure goes...

Use DI
Shutdown (Don't reboot)
Physically remove drive containing the copy.

Or at least unplug the ribbon and power cables from it.

Works fine, just did it with the kitchen PC, upgrading
the only drive in that system to a bigger one. XP does
rabbit on about new hardware and gets you to reboot
after the first boot on the new drive, but thats all it needs.

That last bit is a pain if you want to do this on a regular basis? (Nightly)

Dunno. I dont like internal removable bay kits myself, but
you should be able to have the backup drive in one of those,
modify the virtual boot to shut down once the clone is done.
Then when you first use the system, just ensure you remove
that drive from the bay before turning the system on.

Any way to do it without having to unplug the drive.

Some of those internal bay kits do allow you to electrically
unplug the drive by turning the key on the bay kit.

I'm bound to forget or something.

No big deal if you do manage to forget sometimes.
The system will still boot fine with the clone electrically
present. The problem is that if you need to boot off the
clone, XP will get seriously confused when it cant see the
original boot drive anymore and is booting off the clone.

Thats not a disaster, you can just boot the XP CD and
repair the installation on the clone drive. Just a nuisance
to have to do that compared with just being able to boot
off the clone drive without any special action except the
reboot if the original boot drive dies physically etc.

Thats all using DI 2002. DI 7 can use external firewire
and USB2 drives and can do the clone at the XP level
rather than dropping to DOS to do it. In fact since you
have everything you need, you might as well run V2i
Protector instead and have it incrementally back up
the system on the fly, in the background, all the time.

 

[Folkert Rienstra]

What a fine user group this is!

It actually was for a while, between Ron's exit and Roddles showing up.

Just in case some of you clowns have your heads so far up
your arses that you can't see further than your colon,
Rod is the only one to have offered any practical help!

Well, not all of us are prepared to make things up to 'so call' 'help' people.

Most of the other contributors have been only too happy to
rush off a post complaining of missed spaces, and top posting,

but seemingly

And things aren't always what they seem.

have so little technical ability that this is where their
knowledge base is sited: In user group semantics.

Which ofcourse has nothing to do -to start with- you alianating people
by putting 'Rod Speed' in the subject title and then actually troll people
for the responses that you got.

If I ever need to know where to put a comma, or how to Make my
postings politically correct then Chris, Mike T, you'll be my first
contacts. However if I need help with anything more complex than

where to to find a particular key on the keyboard, I'll ask Rod.

I'm sure Roddles will be happy to help you with that too.

 

[CWatters]

Thanks for the advice.

Thats all using DI 2002. DI 7 can use external firewire
and USB2 drives and can do the clone at the XP level
rather than dropping to DOS to do it. In fact since you
have everything you need, you might as well run V2i
Protector instead and have it incrementally back up
the system on the fly, in the background, all the time.

That sounds more like what I'm trying to achieve I'll go take a look.