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| Thread ID: 36486 | 2003-08-11 11:33:00 | Copy hard drive contents | Mohammad Al-Sahaf (4008) | Press F1 |
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| 166841 | 2003-08-11 22:48:00 | most hardrive manafactures supply free software which can copy your old drive contents over to the new one. you don't have to do anything with the devices as you are useing the new hd in your old pc. | tweak'e (174) | ||
| 166842 | 2003-08-11 23:32:00 | Just thought I would do a back up with ghost,after using two cd's I had 10% ghosted,so gave up the ghost! I probably missed the point;) |
Thomas (1820) | ||
| 166843 | 2003-08-12 01:51:00 | Don't know about missing the point Thomas, but you do have to take into account the amount of data you have to back up. If two CDs was 10% then it sounds like you have more than 10Gb you are trying to ghost. I asume you enabled maximum compression. My C: drive produces a compressed image of around 900MB. It will be less as soon as I get the swapfile and a few other bits and pieces excluded though, and my D: (data) drive produces a 650MB image A second hard drive is faster and cheaper in the long run, and lets you keep all data away from your programs. You can do it with one drive and two partitions, but that leaves you stranded if the drive dies. Cheers Billy 8-{) |
Billy T (70) | ||
| 166844 | 2003-08-12 02:38:00 | To be honest,I didn't see a compression facility,how much could I expect to compress 10gig down to? Cheers BJ |
Thomas (1820) | ||
| 166845 | 2003-08-12 02:48:00 | Probably only 7-8GB. You need to ensure that you only backup needed files. Do you really have 10GB of essential programs and data? Before I image, I delete all temporary internet files, temp files, index.dat files and any other redundant material. Then I do a scan disk followed by defrag. Ghost can be configured to skip file types and/or directories so if you nest your "like to keep but not essential" folders into a group under a folder called "Useful Stuff" for example, then exclude "useful Stuff from your ghost image you can reduce the file considerably. Housekeeping is the name of the game and that is just good computing practice anyway. Cheers Billy 8-{) |
Billy T (70) | ||
| 166846 | 2003-08-12 03:13:00 | Thanks for that,will have to resort to reading options,being as you may know,a when all else fails chappie . Cheers BJ |
Thomas (1820) | ||
| 166847 | 2003-08-12 05:00:00 | Thanks for getting to the nitty-gritty Thomas. It has always bothered me that Ghost (which I do not have) must save a lot of junk. Furthermore it is no use if the HD dies or is corrupted. Copying seems more work than I realised : would a direct write to a new HD be the better option? What about a notebook? Can't fit a second drive in? Perhaps an external drive for a weekly backup with Ghost would be the answer. Is that an option? Would one need tractomorphic fluid? Cheers Winston001 |
Winston001 (3612) | ||
| 166848 | 2003-08-12 05:42:00 | Hi Winston I have posted several times on this subject so do a PF1 search on Ghost as the subject and Billy T as the poster you will find a fair amount of info that could interest you . With Ghost you can image your laptop via a network connection to a desktop hard drive, or you can use a portable hard drive via a USB connection to backup or restore your laptop HDD . If you use a laptop for critical data, I'd have the HDD partitioned into C: & D: then use D: for all your data storage . That will never be as large as your C: drive contents and can be backed up to CD, USB ram drive or over a network as previously mentioned . When those dinky USB ram drives get up to GB+ capacity and at reasonable cost, that would be easily enough to hold an image of both drives on the average laptop unless you are a road warrior who has to have the whole 9 yards in your back pocket at all times or the laptop is also your desktop . Cheers Billy 8-{) |
Billy T (70) | ||
| 166849 | 2003-08-12 07:14:00 | Thanks Billy, I'll do a search. | Winston001 (3612) | ||
| 166850 | 2003-08-12 08:40:00 | You may or may not know that Ghost and an equally useful app,Go Back, are to be found in Norton System Works. | Thomas (1820) | ||
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