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Zoom77   10-12-2008 at 06:57:14 PM

Hello,

What is the best way to upgrade to a different hard drive without having to re-install everything?

The drive I will be upgrading to will be a lot faster, but it might have less capacity than the one I have now (but still more than enough capacity to store all the data I have).

Thanks

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htoonthura   10-12-2008 at 07:02:08 PM
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Zoom77 wrote :

Hello,

What is the best way to upgrade to a different hard drive without having to re-install everything?

The drive I will be upgrading to will be a lot faster, but it might have less capacity than the one I have now (but still more than enough capacity to store all the data I have).

Thanks



clone or ghost it.

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Zorg   10-12-2008 at 07:09:05 PM
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Use the hard drive manufacturer's tools to do a disk copy.


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Zoom77   10-12-2008 at 07:18:36 PM
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Thanks.

Will these solutions work for hard drives of different capacities and different brands?

Any clone or ghost tool suggestions, preferably free since I will need to do this only once.

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Zorg   10-12-2008 at 07:29:08 PM
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Yeah, the FREE hard drive manufacturers tools!

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Zorg   10-12-2008 at 11:10:50 PM
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Get the tools for the brand of HD that is receiving the data.

 

If you feel that you need more, then try PING. I had a problem with version 2.01.18 booting, as have others. The error was "No HDD Device could be found". I used version 2.01.13 and it loaded. I have done a backup image and restored it, so I know it works. This program is not for the noob.


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Zoom77   10-13-2008 at 12:47:15 AM
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Thanks.

I am thinking of using Acronis True Image or Norton Ghost 10 because after searching a bit I figured it would be better to keep images of my hd for backup as well.

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Zorg   10-13-2008 at 01:54:42 AM
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I'm not personally a fan of Ghost, I used it for years. I hear that Acronis is good. I have Paragon Drive Backup 8.51 Personal, which works good. I didn't mention it because you only wanted to clone the drive and you wanted something free, so the mfgr's tools fit the bill perfectly. I just saw this one and it's free, give it a try.

 

Paragon - Drive Backup 9.0 Express - disk backup, imaging software - FREE!

 

I used PING on a machine I built recently and it works well too, if there are no complications. I wish I had known about the Drive Backup 9.0 Express freebee.


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