Win Xp problem

hendersonb

lorian - Could you post links for the most well known drive manufacturers

I.e Maxtor, Seagate, IBM, Samsung - I would be intrested in ones that can be used freely

rockape_2

Lorian wrote:

Post the manufacturer of the new disk, and I'll post you a link to free (legitimate) software to do the ghosting/copying if you want to copy the old disk.

250gb hitachi deskstar
7200rpm
8mb interface
sku 757698

thanks!

Browntoa

found this

http://www.dansdata.com/sbs27.htm

The way to get around all of this awkwardness is simple enough; use dedicated disk duplication software. The two front-runners in this area are Norton Ghost and PowerQuest Drive Image, which in their current versions are both excellent applications with similar basic feature sets.

They can both save a drive's contents into a single compressed image file, for later copying onto different computer or for simple backup purposes. They can also both do copies over a network, to lots and lots of computers at once if you like.

More useful for domestic purposes is their ability to partition and format drives as they go. This means a brand new blank hard drive fresh out of the anti-static bag can be plugged in, the duplicator app started, and a copy made from the old drive. It's all done in one go, including partitioning and formatting. It still takes a while, but it's faster than a separate partition, format and copy routine, and you don't have to be there until it finishes.

You used to be able to download a free functional trial version of Ghost, but Symantec don't link to it any more. There's still a free-download version on the Symantec FTP servers, though; pages like this one have the link.

You can get a free 30 day evaluation version of Drive Image Pro from PowerQuest's page here.

hendersonb

albertross - we use both - customer choice - We always push business customers to go with pro as most of them have domains or at some point buy a server and have a domain

hendersonb

Just to note - Powerquest drive image is discontinued as symantec brought them (Symantec make Norton Ghost also)

rockape_2

i'm currently downloading a free trial of norton ghost 10.0, will let you know how it goes!!