Re: Cloning



It's quite possible the storage IDE may be damaged. That's speculation right
now.
THe deal is that BIOS can see the Seagate 160 gig drive yet Windows, i.e.,
disk management does not. If BIOS can see it shouldn't Windows see it? Unless
it's damaged but BIOS can see it regardless the state of drive?
Thanks in advance.

"Jim" wrote:


"AIANDAS" <AIANDAS@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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OK I had the good luck to find the cloning utility on the Acronis
software.
Sure enough it did the job. Now I am having a problem getting the
previously
slave IDE to be recognized as right now I had it in slave mode on the
jumper
settings.
So now I have to fiddle with the settings unless someone knows better how
to
get the IDE to be recognized?
OUF!

"AIANDAS" wrote:

OK thank you very much..........

"Mark Adams" wrote:



"AIANDAS" wrote:

OK some of the items I'll have to look up.
In my case my SATA HDD is by Seagate, so they'll have something on
their
website which will allow me to migrate my OS etc?
The drive itself was OEM so I did not get a CD or whatever. Thank
you.

"Pegasus (MVP)" wrote:


"AIANDAS" <AIANDAS@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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I had one question re dynamic vs. basic which has been answered.
Now I have the following dilemma:
I have a 40 gig disk where my XP Pro is lying
I want to clone it onto a 500 gig SATA
Norton Ghost 2003 is not really working as I had hoped, does XP
Pro allow
me
to migrate/clone onto my 500 gig.
Any suggestions will be greatly appreciated.
Thank you.

Cloning utilities belong to the class of tools that usually do not
work with
dynamic disks . . .

Windows does not have any inbuilt tools for cloning. Here are a few
options:
a) Use the cloning tool that the manufacturer of the new disk makes
available on his home site.
b) Connect both the old disk and the new disk to some other PC,
then use
robocopy.exe to perform the cloning.
c) Boot the machine with a Bart PE boot CD (which you have to
manufacture),
then continue as per option b).

Some extra notes for options b) and c):
- You must partition and format the target disk before commencing
the copy
process.
- You must mark the first partition as "active".
- You must use the appropriate switches with robocopy.exe so that
it copies
hidden and system files.
- When booting the machine for the first time with the new disk,
make sure
that the old disk remains disconnected.



Seagate now has a cloning tool from Acronis. Go to the Seagate website,
find
the cloning and formating software for your model hard drive. Download
the
tools and create a bootable CD from the download. Put the bootable CD
in the
CD drive and shut down the computer. Open the case and attach the new
hard
drive to the IDE cable. Set jumper to "slave". If SATA, attach to an
available port. Boot the computer off the CD and use the clone tool to
clone
to the new drive. When done, shut down the computer and disconnect and
remove
the original hard drive. Set the new drive jumper to "master" for IDE
or
connect to the original SATA port. Boot the computer and you should be
good
to go. Works every time.
Doesn't your computer use "Cable Select" for IDE drives? If so, you just
put the master plug (the last one) into the drive that you want to be the
master.
Jim



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