Re: Disk mirroring vs. recovery cd's

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Next time, instead of 'assuming' the problem and purchasing a new hard disk
on the basis of your 'assumption' - even though hard disks are real cheap
these days - why not find out for sure seeing as it's free and easy?

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Ted Zieglar
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"Andrew" <Andrew@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Thanks everyone. It is as I feared, that simply cloning the drive may not
solve my problems. I need to reinstall from scratch.

Andrew

"Andrew" wrote:

I have my main hard drive going bad (I assume this is the problem -
system
slow, chkdsk gives unscannable errors). So I purchased a new hard
drive, and
some disk mirroring software. I have attempted to backup everything to
a
second hard drive. Now my question is that if there is a problem with
the
hard drive that has the system software and I mirror it to the new hard
drive
won't I still have system software problems when I install the new drive
as
the system drive? I don't have recovery cd's but I can create them.
Would
that be the better solution to use? Just install the new hard drive and
use
recovery cd's to reinstall the system software?

Thanks for any insight you can give.

Andrew H.



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