Re: Copy an ide hard disk

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"Malke" <malke@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> 在郵件 news:el0yFn09JHA.200@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx 中撰寫...
Scott wrote:
Probably, I did not describe the issue clearly. My computer is working on
Vista Premium and support 2 sata drives. Now I need to copy an old ide
hard
disk to a larger one for my laptop pc. I cannot do it on my laptop and
think to use my desktop pc. However, I do not have ide drive connection
on
my desktop pc and insufficient drives to accomplish the task. Any other
idea?

Suggestions:

1. Put both the IDE drives into USB external drive cases;
2. or attach internally to your computer if you have the connections on your
motherboard;
3. or use SATA-to-IDE adapter(s) to the motherboard;
4. or use a specialized drive adapter(s) like this one:
http://www.newertech.com/products/usb2_adapt.php

If you are using such an old version of Norton Ghost that it won't support
USB, replace it with a modern imaging program that does. I use the
enterprise version of Acronis True Image Echo because I'm a computer tech,
but you can buy the home version of TI for as little as $35. Here are a few
examples:

http://www.newegg.com/Product/ProductList.aspx?Submit=ENE&DEPA=0&Order=BESTMATCH&Description=acronis+true+image

You need the tools to accomplish the job.

Malke
--
MS-MVP
Elephant Boy Computers - Don't Panic!
http://www.elephantboycomputers.com/#FAQ


Hi Malke,

Today I tried the trial version of Acronis True Image Echo to upgrade two hard disks: ide and sata. Unfortunately, both failed.

Acronis True Image Echo does support removable media while Norton Ghost does not. I tried to clone the hard disk on my laptop computer to an external hard disk. It failed on the first partion and the error says it cannot read xxxx sector, retry and ignor all. I am still looking for the way to do it.

I tried the other laptop hard disk. Firstly connect the new hard disk to my desktop pc. Secondly connect the old on an external USB adapter. The old disk contains 3 partitions: recovery, os + application & data. The recovery and OS + application & data partition copy worked fine but failed while copying the data partition. I installed the half successfully new hard disk onto the laptop pc. It booted successfully but the data partition becomes unallocated. I repartition them and copy the data from the old hard disk and it works.

Acronis True Image Echo is better but seems the successful rate is not high.

Regards,

Scott

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