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Hi
I have a homebuilt PC based around an ELITE motherboard with Athlon XP CPU.
The main weak link at the moment is the 40GB IDE hard drive which I used
from an old PC. I want to replace that with a 200 GB Maxtor DiamondMax 10
SATA Hard drive. I had pondered taking this opportunity of doing a complete
re-install of everything but I decided that is going to be too much hassle.
(For one thing I have Win XP upgrade so I will have to install Win 98
first).
So the obvious solution is to clone the old hard drive, but how easy or
otherwise is that? Maxtor's Maxblast 3 seems to be the best option in this
case. Does anyone have any experience of this or any other cloning
software?
One concern I have is that if I get it wrong I will not be able to use the
full 200GB.
Any advice gratefully appreciated.
GS
PS Please don't tell me a shouldn't buy the Maxtor as it is already bought
and paid for.
Hi
I have a homebuilt PC based around an ELITE motherboard with Athlon XP CPU.
The main weak link at the moment is the 40GB IDE hard drive which I used
from an old PC. I want to replace that with a 200 GB Maxtor DiamondMax 10
SATA Hard drive. I had pondered taking this opportunity of doing a complete
re-install of everything but I decided that is going to be too much hassle.
(For one thing I have Win XP upgrade so I will have to install Win 98
first).
So the obvious solution is to clone the old hard drive, but how easy or
otherwise is that? Maxtor's Maxblast 3 seems to be the best option in this
case. Does anyone have any experience of this or any other cloning
software?
One concern I have is that if I get it wrong I will not be able to use the
full 200GB.
Any advice gratefully appreciated.
GS
PS Please don't tell me a shouldn't buy the Maxtor as it is already bought
and paid for.