Re: copy hard disk

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From: Gerry Cornell (gcjc_at_btinternet.com)
Date: 01/29/05 

Date: Sat, 29 Jan 2005 00:41:18 -0000

Sammy

Why do you thinks the hard drive is beginning to fail? Who is the
manufacturer of the hard drive and what is the model? 

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"Sammy Castagna" <someone@microsoft.com> wrote in message 
news:%237iIYjYBFHA.1188@tk2msftngp13.phx.gbl...
> Tom,
> I have not went and bought it yet because I am unsure. Could I not 
> format F with windows xp. I really want to get this machine fixed but 
> I do not want to waste money. I thought it was the controller so I 
> bought a ata 133 to pci card and changed the cable but it is still 
> hanging and got the can not read C drive it has to be C going bad 
> there is nothing left is there?
>
> Sammy Castagna
>
> "Tom Penharston" <thinkpersuasion@netscape.net> wrote in message 
> news:1106950336.748856.124480@z14g2000cwz.googlegroups.com...
>> Here's a question that might help this thread.
>>
>> I use Ghost boot disks to copy NTFS source partitions to image files 
>> on
>> FAT32 destination partitions.  My version of Ghost (7.5) does not 
>> write
>> disk images to NTFS.  Does version 9.0 support writing to NTFS?
>> Simply put, using Ghost, how should Sammy format drive F:?
>>
>
>

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