Re: Adding a drive

What an interesting thread, and only a few days old - how did I miss
it?

I shall certainly download a copy of 2003.

Ghost 2001 was my first imaging software and I loved the security it
gave me. I am very, very old so I appreciated the DOS command line.
Yet I found that the manual didn't fully follow the program. That
can't be good. Then along came XP. Nuff said.

I also used BootitNG. My mate swears by it but it is arcane. The
parting of the ways came when my wife bought me partition Magic 8 for
Christmas so out of loyalty I tried to uninstall Bootit from my second
machine so that I could use Boot magic. I couldn't uninstall it. It's
still there about 3 years later. I ran the install but Partition Magic
couldn't install on the partitions created by Bootit. Someone told me
that Bootit created non-standard partitions and the only way to
proceed was to format the disk. Too rich for my blood! I have feared
it ever since.

I thought that True Image v8 was great - cheaper and simpler than the
Ghost that I knew. I'm not so keen on the GUI in v9 and I didn't know
that the cloning option was so limited.

Because of my failing memory I like to tune an O/S and apps to
perfection and take an image for squirting back on in case of
emergency. I never have emergencies on my own system. Do you find that
you only need insurance when you don't have any.

All of this is a far cry from my present problem. I am helping a
friend and he's stuck with TI v9 because I persuaded him to buy it.
Acronis support has been silent ever since.

Do you know if TI v9 can clone an image to a hard disk? I have
"restored " an image to a new drive but the capacity is different and
produces the dreaded message "NTLDR is missing". I believe it's
because the heads are different. I understand that "cloning" the
image to the new drive would avoid this probl;em.

Thanks for the good read.

Colin


On Thu, 16 Feb 2006 17:43:17 -0500, "Anna" <myname@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:


<me@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Thanks. I'm using True Image by Acronis, which I think is great, but
it intends to unstitch all my preparation by deleting all partitions
and data on the destination drive.

Previously, I had used BootitNG which does clone to a partition rather
than to an entire drive.

Colin


On Thu, 16 Feb 2006 09:10:00 -0500, "Ted Zieglar"
<teddy.z@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Cloning means making an identical copy. If the source drive was
bootable,
the destination drive is bootable. No reason to prepare the destination
drive first - whatever changes you make will get overwritten.

Instead of working on principles, RTFM. Use the instructions and
software
that came with the new drive (if it was a retail drive - if it's not a
retail drive good luck to you.) You can also buy third party disc
cloning
software.


On Thu, 16 Feb 2006 13:55:23 -0500, "Anna" <myname@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Colin:
As Ted has pointed out, when you clone the contents of one HD to another
HD, the destination drive, in effect, is wiped clean and loses all its
previous
contents which, of course, are replaced with the contents of the source
HD.

The problem you're experiencing with the Acronis program (at least based
on
my experience with the ATI version 8 program - I haven't worked with the
newer version 9) is that the program does not have the capability of
*directly* cloning the contents of the HD from & to selected individual
partitions where the drive(s) have been multi-partitioned. It's an all or
nothing proposition, i.e., a disk-to-disk cloning process. At least I've
never been able to find a way to use ATI8 to clone individual partitions.
I
might mention that this capability *does* exist in the disk imaging
program
I mostly use - Symantec's Norton Ghost 2003.
Anna


"Colin Bearfield" <me@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:nmk9v1l90vt8jscs9cojraabf2gip9dbpr@xxxxxxxxxx
Thanks Anna. You are so right!

I have used Ghost 2001, it didn't work with XP. BootitNG does clone to
individual partitions but I don't trust it.

I shall have to accept ATI's all or nothing approach. So I'm off to
my friend's now to backup all the data that I had moved into the
partitions on the new drive, and then clone the drive and lose them
all. Hopefully I shall be able to recreate the partitions. There's
not much point in having 15 GB on a 160 Gb drive.

Colin


Colin:
Since you apparently have some familiarity with Symantec's Norton Ghost
program, why not use the Ghost 2003 version to perform your cloning
operations? That version works just fine with XP and as I've previously
indicated it has the happy capability of directly cloning individual
partitions from one HD to another HD.

I recently posted to this newsgroup a detailed description of using that
program under the subject "Re: Best Method and/or How to Set Up a Configured
and Updated XP Installation?". In that post I also included a listing of a
number of online vendors from whom you can still order the Ghost 2003
version at remarkably low prices.
Anna


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