Re: Interchanging master hd's

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Anna,

Thank you for your response.

"In your original posting you stated "I installed 2 Genica removable trays
and 2 HD's. One as the master and the other as a USB backup drive." The
Genica devices are designed as IDE mobile racks, are they not? So the HDD
that's enclosed in the rack via the removable tray/caddy serves as a
internal HDD, just like any other internal HDD. Isn't that so? " -
Agreed...yes.

"What do you mean then when you refer to a "USB backup device"?" - I use
Cobian Back Up frequently to back up data and spread sheets to the USB HDD.
I only want to clone weekly.

"I don't know how a mobile rack could be used as a USB device without some
tortuous workaround. If somehow you *did* clone the contents of your boot
HDD to a USB external HDD, that latter drive is *not* bootable in an XP
environment while it serves as a USB drive." - Really it is quite simple. I
use an USB to IDE cable and connect to the rear of the Genica rack.Yes I
understand that it is not bootable as a USB drive.

For explanation I'll call the Genica IDE drive "C" and the Genica USB drive
"X". What I want to do is clone C to X, power off the machine, remove the C
and X trays and install the X (which should now be identical to C) into the
IDE rack and the C tray into the USB rack and reboot. This seems like it
should work but I get a boot failure message requesting a start up disk.

At this point I think it must be the clone software not creating an
identical image so that XP recognizes it as the licensed software......but I
am wondering if it's XP before I go out and buy more software.

I appreciate your help and comments.

Thank you,

Dave
Anna




"Anna" <myname@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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"Opusita" <Opusita@xxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Hi all,

Over the last couple years I've had to deal with hard drive
problems....one due to static electricity and one due to chkdsk
deleting partitions or something. Any way I thought it would be a good
idea to have two identical hard drives....then if one had a problem I
would simply replace the bad with the good.

I installed 2 Genica removable trays and 2 HD's. One as the master and
the other as a USB backup drive. I now back up everything backupable
daily. I also tried some clone software and use this weekly.

The problem is that when I tried to interchange the drives I received
error messages to install a boot up disk. Apparently XP doesn't like
the cloned drive. Is it the clone software?.......if so which one will
work........or is it XP?

Thank you,

Dave


"Philly" <unspamme@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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What cloning software did you use? I also use Genica removable ..trays
and routinely clone my hard drive, I also run off the clone to insure it
functions. I use Ghost 2003.


"Opusita" <Opusita@xxxxxxx> wrote in message
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I tried Casper Clone.

Can you physically interchange the hd's without boot up problems?


Dave:
In your original posting you stated "I installed 2 Genica removable trays
and 2 HD's. One as the master and the other as a USB backup drive." The
Genica devices are designed as IDE mobile racks, are they not? So the HDD
that's enclosed in the rack via the removable tray/caddy serves as a
internal HDD, just like any other internal HDD. Isn't that so? What do
you mean then when you refer to a "USB backup device"?

I don't know how a mobile rack could be used as a USB device without some
tortuous workaround. If somehow you *did* clone the contents of your boot
HDD to a USB external HDD, that latter drive is *not* bootable in an XP
environment while it serves as a USB drive.
Anna



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