Re: HD file transfer question (using Norton Ghost to migrate the C: HD) (1st post here)

On Jul 10, 10:34 am, raylopez99 <raylope...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Just to complete this thread for future generations, I've just tried
Seagate's DiscWizard and with a new Seagate HD on the USB connection,
the DiscWizard identifies it, sets up the 'clone' correctly (ie. copy
C to the new HD), but upon reboot there's a reading error and it
fails. Perhaps this is due to a virus or firewall program running
resident, though I thought I corrected for this. In any event, I'm
going to go to plan B which is to attach the new HD in the "D" bay,
and use Ghost 2002 to copy "disk to disk" (clone) as Brian points out.


I finally migrated the new C: drive. What I ended up doing is using
the "disk to disk" feature of Norton Ghost, using the power supply and
data interface cable from the old D: drive (I have two drives), as
suggested in this thread. It worked fine. The funny thing is: the
new HD from Seagate was formatted as FATS (I mistakenly formatted it
as FATS prior to mounting it), while the old C: drive I was cloning
was NTFS, yet, when I did the "disk to disk" cloning (from inside of
Norton Ghost), and when I booted up, the new C: drive was formatted
entirely in NTFS! I was expecting an error and I was expecting to
have to reformat the new drive in NTFS. But Windows XP apparently was
smart enough, after booting up, to recognize the rest of the new drive
(i.e., the rest of the drive not taken up by the NTFS image file) was
FATS and automatically formatted it as NTFS. Then on the reboot the
entire new C: drive was NTFS.

Also the new Seagate drive came with instructions and a utility* on
disk migration, along with interface cables. I am confident their
solution would also have worked to migrate the data (*it's basically a
crippled version of Acronis software).

All in all disk migration when you are cloning the C: drive is not
trivial, but not hard either if you do your homework.

RL

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