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| Thread ID: 87915 | 2008-03-09 02:05:00 | upgrade laptop hardrive (w/o a reinstall) | Fergie (6508) | Press F1 |
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| 647494 | 2008-03-09 21:33:00 | One of the options to look at is to image the drive using freely available (meaning FREEWARE) imaging software, which makes an EXACT copy of the contents of your old drive. I copied a 15GB partition of C: to an image of only 2.5GB. Then copy this to the new drive. If you make sure that the new drive is set to MASTER (in jumper settings) then it should work just fine (Crossing all fingers and toes) :clap | davehold (13001) | ||
| 647495 | 2008-03-09 21:47:00 | That’s helpful . Now, do both the Existing and Target drives have to be by the same manufacturer? If not, does the programme used apply to the Existing or the Target Drive? :confused: I think I can see how this would work on a Desktop but Slaving up another HDD to a Laptop got me, for the moment anyway . :confused: Look at the answer I put in post #5 - I do this all the time, never failed yet, and doesn't matter what the make of the drive is . Some of the "Manufactures" cloning software doesn't like working on other drives . Seagates one for example will spit the dummy if you dont have a seagate drive . |
wainuitech (129) | ||
| 647496 | 2008-03-09 21:49:00 | One of the options to look at is to image the drive using freely available (meaning FREEWARE) imaging software, which makes an EXACT copy of the contents of your old drive. I copied a 15GB partition of C: to an image of only 2.5GB. Then copy this to the new drive. If you make sure that the new drive is set to MASTER (in jumper settings) then it should work just fine (Crossing all fingers and toes) :clap Struth, you compressed 15gig to 2.5gig. That's some compression. :confused: Have you had to restore from it yet? And, just to keep everyone up with the play, the Existing drive is a Hitachi, also described as a IBM/Hitachi. I guess it will have something different to Seagate & WE. :( |
B.M. (505) | ||
| 647497 | 2008-03-09 21:56:00 | Look at the answer I put in post #5 - I do this all the time, never failed yet, and doesn't matter what the make of the drive is . Some of the "Manufactures" cloning software doesn't like working on other drives . Seagates one for example will spit the dummy if you dont have a seagate drive . Ummm, how do I create the "Bootable CD"? I've got no Writer, so no way of writing to anything other than the HDD . |
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