Re: 2d hard drive??
- From: "Peter Foldes" <okf22@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 14 Nov 2008 23:41:52 -0500
Andrew
I am convinced that you are on something . Geeez Andrew take a break (sabbatical) for a few years to clear your head. Now go away
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"Andrew E." <eckrichco@xxxxxxx> wrote in message news:A4C22AF1-A3B0-4BA5-B78A-D4D88051C698@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
What lame responses you recieved for such a simple task...1st,xp already.
has the software to copy hd to hd.Simply set the new hd as slave to C: on
the same IDE cable (new closest to board),once in xp,format the hd in
diskmgmt.msc,once thru,go to run,type:XCOPY C:\*.* D:\ /c/h/e/k/r
Agree to all in the DOS window,once its thru,youre finished,the new hd is
ready to be booted with xp installed,remember to reset jumper pins..Also,D:
being the new hd,if asigned diffrent letter,then use that letter instead..
"daisypearl" wrote:
A few days ago I posted a query about a noise that I feared was my hard
drive going belly up; again I do appreciate all who have assured me it
is most likely a fan. Will take care of that today.
While I was in a state of panic thinking it was the hard drive I was
agonizing over all I would have to do to reconstruct my info. I DO have
everything [files] backed up offsite at Mozy and I know I could would
have them. The hassle would be reinstalling all that stuff , etc.
My question now--since my hard drive is 3 years+ old--should I consider
just getting a 2d hard drive[external] and finding some software that
would copy over my info to the new drive and running it as a backup in
the event the old one fails? I could just back the new one over night
and not worry so much. I would not discontinue Mozy nor the normal CD
backups I do to my genealogy files and Money files. Considering a new
computer right now is not in the question but I suspect that having
someone reinstall a new hard drive and all the work that goes with it
would cost as much as a new hard drive.
I think there is software that will copy the info from one drive to
another as a mirror site or am I dreaming?
My computer is in good running order [as far as I know], all software
is uptodate, I run avast as my virus checker; routinely use spybot,
adaware, registry cleaner; check to see if it needs defragging,--all the
stuff I need to do to keep it in good shape.
Am I naive to think the computer will last a long time? I have a fast
chip with a 200GB drive that still has a lot of space on it. All the
software I will probably ever use only takes up about half of the ROM.
I am an old lady and certainly not a gamer which I guess would take a
new fancy setup. I am extremely happy with it and only started thinking
of it having problems with this fan issue.
TIA
daisy
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daisypearl
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