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| 432409 | 2006-02-20 08:02:00 | Help please-- Old hard drive on the blink. Slowing down the computer. How can I transfer the contents of my old hard drive to a new Hard Drive. | FrancisL (9801) | ||
| 432410 | 2006-02-20 08:34:00 | Depends on what you want to do. Do you want to bump your whole running OS etc over, or just rescue the data? It could be a good time for a reinstall for posterity, that or I recommend using a Linux LiveCD and the "dd" command. www.blinkdevelopment.com |
ninja (1671) | ||
| 432411 | 2006-02-20 08:39:00 | Or use the data tranfer utility that comes with most new hard drives. I'd tend to just take the data, as soon as you can, and with as little access to the old drive as possible, i.e. Install the new drive, partition & format it the transfer the the data over by using a boot CD/floppy of the drive utility, remove the old drive after wiping its contents, test it with said drive diagnostics, if bung, remove it. |
Murray P (44) | ||
| 432412 | 2006-02-20 08:42:00 | no offence but how do you know th hardrive is the cause of the problems? | tweak'e (69) | ||
| 432413 | 2006-02-21 09:49:00 | Tweak'e thanks- by a process of elimination. First replaced some memory which was suspect then tried another (old) hard drive which had Linux on it then took off linux and installed Windows. Both old drives only 4 gigs and failed drive drive 10 gigs. Replaced the suspect memory so computer is acceptable speed with changed 4 gig spare part. Have ordered a new drive but because it is my wife's computer she wants me to try and keep her old data. And I can't figure out how to do it onto the new drive. To ninja. Just want to get the data Over the years am disenchanted with Linux. |
FrancisL (9801) | ||
| 432414 | 2006-02-21 09:57:00 | i would run hardrive testing tools on it first. i don't know what problems you had but i suspect your pc skills are not great. i would just to make sure it is the drive that the cause. most drive manafactures have software for testing and moving the data from one drive to the other, complete with instructions. if the drives are 4gig and 10 gig i suspect the pc is old and new drives may have a few problems working with an old pc. |
tweak'e (69) | ||
| 432415 | 2006-02-22 03:25:00 | From you post, I assume you're trying to recover a Windows disk. XP? A computer running slowly may be a sign the hard drive's bad, but there are many more likely candidates. Spyware / virus / trojan horse seems a little more likely. When a hard drive goes goes bad, you'll sometimes get "clunking" as the heads attempt to reread a sector. If you're doing a simple operation, such as opening Windows Explorer, and you get a repetitive sound that seem to coincide with it, it *may* be an indication of a bad drive. Before going too crazy on your hard drive, I'd run a chkdsk with automatic fix plus check for bad sectors. "How to perform disk error checking in Windows XP" www.microsoft.com |
kingdragonfly (309) | ||
| 432416 | 2006-02-22 09:32:00 | All you chaps thanks for the replies but I,ve fixed the problem. It was a old 10 gigabyte maxtor which I changed to a new 40 Gigabyte one. Burn't the data to a CD re-installed Windows machine has speeded up. Had the old drive partitioned into 2 5 gigs. Windows XP on first partition was being choked - I think. Wife now happy. |
FrancisL (9801) | ||
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