Topic: New Hard Drive

[TR]

Ok..New hard drive arrived today under warranty from Maxtor,how easy is it to ghost the old Hard drive to the new one.

The old hard drive has bad sectors on it, am running on it now, but I dont want to go through the hassle of down loading all the updates again being a 56ker and losing anything that I have forgot to back up?


Hookstar

[Sandra]

I have never done it myself but Tony has and seemed to fine it qute easy from what he said on an earlier post.
I will see if I can find it as I think he went into some detail about how he did it  

[Simon]

Didn't Tony use Norton Ghost?

[Sandra]

No it was a different one, cant remember which but it works the same way  

[Sandra]

Looks like it was Norton Ghost, I thought he used a different one.
Anyway the thread is here, if you can make any sense of it Hooky  

http://pc-pals.com/index.php?board=28;action=display;threadid=5254;start=0

[Tony]

No I used PowerQuest "Drive Image"  You copy and image of C:Drive, but you cannot store that image on the drive you are imaging. I stored it on another partition [that's where PowerQuest "Partition Magic" comes in handy] Then pop you new drive in and copy that image over to it.

My C:Drive is only using 4GB [I run lean] so it takes about 17 mins to copy the image and a about 5 mins to put it on the new drive.

Actually I keep an "original" clean image, plus I then  make an image every month, but keeping the monthly image prior to the latest image. So I always have three images of C:Drive saved on my "Backup Partition"  You see I always have a spare HDD in my PC, with an active partition with my latest Image of C:drive on it, in case C:Drive has a mechanical failure, plus I have my "backup" partition on that drive were I store the images  

Why ? becaude HDD failure is a pain in the arse, and so is having to clean install every thing manually. You can do it to CD's Hooky, but I aint tried that way, on a big usage C: Drive it would eat CD's I reckon.

Just make a partition on you existing drive, or on the new one, for storing images, well worth it mate. My 4GB in use C:Drive takes up 1.53GB as an image file [my backup partition is 8.5GB of a 40 GB HDD.

[Simon]

So, technically, if you had a DVD Writer, as Hook does, you, Tony, could back up your entire 'C' drive onto one 4.7Gb DVD.

[Tony]

So, technically, if you had a DVD Writer, as Hook does, you, Tony, could back up your entire 'C' drive onto one 4.7Gb DVD.

Oh sod off you sw**ker, jus cos you and Hooky have got em, bloody poseing Southeners.....mutter...mutter.....  

[TR]

Oh sod off you sw**ker, jus cos you and Hooky have got em, bloody poseing Southeners.....mutter...mutter.....  

Hey Tony... please dont put me in the same boat as that southerner  ..I'm from the East  .

Anyway, went to my local PC shop here in the "EAST" and all I wanted to do was borrow his ghost ware, the nice chap said If you bring the PC in I will do it for a Ģiver.. Bargain I thought, stipped out lunch time went back after work gave the nice chap from the PC shop in the "EAST" a Ģiver and here I am ..nice new hard drive here in the "EAST"

Hookstar in the "EAST"

PS dont tell GSS or he will be following the Star  

[Tony]