Re: Replacing the XP Boot Drive
- From: "Thomas Wendell" <tumppiw_NOSPAM@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 8 Oct 2005 06:34:48 +0300
When doing such work, I usually have the computer on my desk with case open.
I then connect whatever disks I'm working with, leaving them "hanging", as
in beside the case, just connected to power and data cables...
So when I had 120G+80G in main chassis and 20G in USB enclosure, wanted
more, so bought 200G and started copying around..
(And DVD and CDRW on sec. IDE all the time)
200G and 80 are Seagates, 120G is Samsung..
Used version 5.0 of DriveImage (old...)
1st clone: 120G as master and 200 as slave. Clone 120G -> 200G . OK. Checked
200G works, ie. installed it as master, no slave, and booted..
2nd just a copyprocess : 200G as master and 80G as slave. Copy from 80G to
empty space on 200G. No errors while copying.
3rd copy: 200 as master and 120G as slave. Moved that 80G contents to the
120G
Mounted 80G in USB enclosure, checked again that everything works,
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"RonJ" <RonJ@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> kirjoitti viestissä
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> Anna,
> Thank you for your response.
> My reasons for doing it this way are:
> 1. Physical access to my chassis is a difficult time-consuming task and I
am
> trying to minimize the number of times that I extract and replace it.
> 2. The physical connection between the USB 80G and internal 40G already
> exists so I wanted to take advantage of that.
> 3. I don't know how to make a physical connection between the 200G and the
> 40G to perform the cloning without doing some drive swapping.
>
> My main concern, I think, is to assure that I can clone all of the
software
> from the internal 40G to the USB 80G so that when I go through the
physical
> effort of switching the drives, I have a chassis with a 80G drive that
boots.
> Somewhere I thought that I read that because it is a USB connection, I
won't
> get all the software that I need.
>
> --
> RonJ
>
>
> "Anna" wrote:
>
> >
> > "RonJ" <RonJ@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
> > news:1680DE57-C0AA-46CB-B114-2EA152BE4BF1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > > Situation:
> > > I have a Dell 2300 with XP SP2 operating system. There is a 40G boot
> > > drive in the chassis (which only has space for one drive). I also
have a
> > > 80G WD drive in a USB enclosure. I recently purchased a Seagate 200G
> > > drive.
> > > Goal:
> > > I'd like to end up with the 80G as the boot drive in the chassis and
the
> > > 200G in the USB enclosure.
> > > Problem:
> > > I want to copy/clone the 40G to the 80G so I can place the 80G in the
> > > chassis and have it boot right up. Articles that I have read makes it
> > > seem to be a difficult task to assure that the 80G will boot right up
when
> > > I install it. I am primarily concerned that all of the software will
be
> > > on the 80G to make it a bootable drive.
> > >
> > > I'd appreciate suggestions or preferably specific steps since I
haven't
> > > done this before.
> > >
> > > Thank you,
> > > --
> > > RonJ
> >
> >
> > RonJ:
> > I know you want to install the Seagate 200 GB as a USBEHD and use your
80 GB
> > HD as the boot drive. But I'm wondering why you wouldn't want to reverse
> > that situation so that your 200 GB drive would be the boot drive and the
80
> > GB one the USBEHD which you'll be using for backup purposes. I realize
you
> > must have good & sufficient reasons for doing so, but let me first
discuss
> > the disk copying process had you preferred to use the Seagate as your
boot
> > drive. Then I'll discuss the process from the standpoint of cloning your
> > present 40 GB boot drive to the 80 GB Western Digital drive...
> >
> > The cloning process is relatively easy. If you purchased a retail, boxed
> > version of your Seagate HD it came with a Disk Utility CD which includes
> > Seagate's Disk Wizard - you can also download this from Seagate's site -
> > (http://www.seagate.com/support/disc/drivers/discwiz.html). The Disk
Wizard
> > software includes a disk-copying function that allows you to clone the
> > contents of your old drive to the new one. It's a very simple process.
Here
> > are the steps (taken from the Seagate user manual slightly edited):
> >
> > a) Start up Disk Wizard
> > b) Select "Maintenance" from the main DiscWizard menu.
> > c) Select "Copy files" in the maintenance options menu.
> > d) Choose the source and destination hard drives and begin the copy
> > procedure.
> > e) After you have copied the files to your new Seagate hard drive, you
need
> > to configure your new drive as the master and your old drive as a slave
(if
> > applicable)...
> >
> > So as you can see, it's not a terribly difficult process to undertake.
But
> > like everything else involving a PC, things can go wrong. So before you
> > undertake this disk copying process, back up any files on your old drive
> > that are important to you.
> >
> > Now with respect to cloning the contents of your 40 GB HD to the 80 GB
WD
> > drive...
> >
> > Western Digital also has a disk copying utility incorporated in their
Data
> > Lifeguard Tools 11 for Windows which you can download from their site.
It
> > performs the same basic function as the Seagate utility mentioned above
but
> > is a trifle more complex to use (as I recall) than the Seagate one. But
not
> > unduly so.
> >
> > Again, backup any files that are important to you *before* you undertake
the
> > disk copying process.
> > Anna
> >
> >
> >
.
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