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| Thread ID: 34474 | 2003-06-14 02:53:00 | HDD: cloning; partitioning | agent (30) | Press F1 |
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| 152460 | 2003-06-14 02:53:00 | If you remember, two weeks ago my HDD kind of went *splunk* on me, and stopped working properly. Following on from this, I have a new HDD (pretty much the same, minus the "SeaShield" electrostatic protective cover on the bottom, which I intend to take off the old drive and screw onto the new one). I downloaded a tool called HDCopy from MajorGeeks.com (www.majorgeeks.com). After partitioning the new HDD with PartitionMagic 7 Rescue Disk (got Windows 2003 Server installed on a 6GB drive, and have both my 40GB drives hooked up, and my CD-RW), I intend to use HDCopy to copy all files off each corresponding partition. I am not sure exactly how HDCopy works, but would it be similar to Norton Ghost? I have also had all but three files copied off my files partition of the old HDD onto the new one (corruption stopped the three files). Should I also try a tool called Unstoppable Copier, which claims to copy the entirety of a file, and replace parts that cannot be copied with blanks. Should I try using this on the three files (don't even know what they are yet...)? And another question - after all this, I'm hoping to either "ghost" the PC back, or reinstall Windows on my new partition. However, I'm also thinking of creating a partition for Red Hat at the end of my drive - how do I go about with boot managers on this issue? Also from MajorGeeks, I have downloaded three free boot managers, GAG, Ranish Partition Manager, and Boot Switcher, which have various features, such as password protection, handling Linux, and various other nice-sounding things. |
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| 152461 | 2003-06-14 04:07:00 | I have recently installed a new backup hard drive and because it is a faster one than my old one I decided to do a fresh install of Win XP and essential programs and then copy my files over to their new Data partition. I was considering using Ghost to clone the contents off the old drive to the new one but decided to start afresh. Nothing like a nice clean installation methinks, even if it is quite a big job. Regarding the three files that that would not copy over on your system do you think they may be Favorites files? When doing CD backups there are always files in Favorites that cause hiccups for me and it appears to be due to their long file names. > I'm also thinking of creating a partition for Red Hat at the end of my drive From what I have read on the forum it appears that you leave a space on your Windows partition for Linux rather than create a partition for it as it will create a partition for itself when it installs. Might pay to do a bit of homework on that one. ;-) |
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