Re: How to clone a hard disk ?

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Thanks for your input.
....I'm now trying to pin down exactly what "Restore the original disk
signature" actually" does.
i.e. I'm cloning my 80gb Seagate (XP Home) onto a slightly different model
no. 80gb Seagate. (using the Ghost boot-cd and Ghost image, (just taken),
from external USB hd.
The nearest thing I found to an explanation was:
http://radified.com/cgi-bin/yabb2/YaBB.pl?num=1202587014/12
I know from experience that I need "copy mbr" ticked, and I don't need
"Restore the original disk signature" ticked, but I'd still like a more
sensible explanation of what "Restore the original disk signature" actually
does.

.......
http://www.compatdb.org/support/topics/164590_hard_disk_cloning_question.html
looks like it's to do with converting a basic disk into a dynamic disk,
....whatever a dynamic disk is !! :-)

I'll have a look at the disk with Partition Magic after it's finished, ...if
it'll boot up :-)

regards, Richard




"Mick Murphy" <MickMurphy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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If you can see your destination drive in My Computer>right-click on
it>Format
Then you can send your Ghost to it.
--
Mick Murphy - Qld - Australia


"RJK" wrote:

I think you're on the right track, ...gosh, ...it's years and years since
I
used to be able to tweak hd hex. settings with something like pqedit.exe
!!
I'm getting rustier as the years go by !
Anyhoo, some of it is coming back to me now !
....am just in the middle of creating a Ghost 9.0 image of C:\ on that
machine, out to USB hd, then gonna switch hard disks, boot from Ghost
boot
cd, and restore it like that.
i.e like I always do - just to make sure i haven't hit some "new"
problem.

regards, Richard



"Mick Murphy" <MickMurphy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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You have formatt the partitiion that you have chosen to send the
"clone"
to?
--
Mick Murphy - Qld - Australia


"RJK" wrote:


"tuuf" <tuuf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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I know this doesn't answer your question but I've cloned a lot of
HD's
because it works great. I've tried a lot of programs and by far the
easiest
idiot proof software out there is acronis true image.
<snip>


Thanks !
I've got Acronis, it was free on a magazine disk but, I've used Norton
for
years, and succumbed to the Windows GUI / Norton Ghost "copy disk"
because
it looked like it might be a little quicker !

I can quite successfully clone a hd using my tried and tested method
but,
now that I've hit a problem, I wanna know what it is !!!

regards, Richard








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