Completely backing up hard drive? - Page 2

kronas · 17-01-2005, 17:47

i had aproblem like this, it turned out that xp did not assign a drive letter.

if you go to control panel - administrative tools - computer management - storage - disk managment.

or it maybe in removable storage with no letter.

Paul K · 17-01-2005, 17:48

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Originally Posted by bucketbakereturn

CAn i just butt in and ask if i were to take an 'image' (what is that exactly and how can it mimic/act like the original drive) of my hard drive could i then transfer it onto another disk and boot to Windows from the new drive. My ipod tracks are fillin up the original 40G quickly and at todays prices a much bigger disk makes alot of sense. i think i'm askin a v similar question here but u see me no understand.

Shouldn't be a problem as long as the new drive directly replaces the old one on the cable etc.
Eg. Clone C drive, remove (or move) C drive on the IDE cable and replace with newly cloned drive so that windows sees the new C drive in the same position as old one. If you don't change them over like that you may need to change your BIOS settings to boot from the correct drive

SMHarman · 17-01-2005, 18:02

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Originally Posted by bucketbakereturn

CAn i just butt in and ask if i were to take an 'image' (what is that exactly and how can it mimic/act like the original drive) of my hard drive could i then transfer it onto another disk and boot to Windows from the new drive. My ipod tracks are fillin up the original 40G quickly and at todays prices a much bigger disk makes alot of sense. i think i'm askin a v similar question here but u see me no understand.

Yes, but why bother doing that. The cable inside your PC connecting to the existing HDD will have a second plug on it for a second HDD, and you should have a spare power plug close by.
To achieve what you want to do you are better buying a second HDD, setting it as secondary or slave and plugging it into the PC, then dragging iTunes etc onto that disk freeing up space on the C drive.
The next step is to move Documents and Settings and all other user created data onto that disk, then if the Windows disk corrupts, you can rebuild windows and won't lose all this data.
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Originally Posted by Ramrod

Tnx all...will Norton Ghost or Acronis produce a fully functional HDD if I need to replace the the original with the one that has the (ghost) backup copy on it?
edit. just looked at them......it looks like they will do the job

.....just got to choose one now.......

Can this be done on schedule? If I leave a disk either in the machine or in a firewire caddy can I get my PC to extract files from certain locations on the windows file and printer sharing network and drop a copy onto this drive each night. Is it intelligent to do this on changed only files etc.

Looks like this will do the job
http://www.acronis.com/homecomputing.../features.html
but it does not explain whether it can get these files from different PCs.

Ramrod · 17-01-2005, 18:14

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Originally Posted by Aragorn

Right click on 'My Computer' and select 'Manage'.

In the Computer Management MMC, on the left you should see "Disk Management" under "Storage".

In the Disk Management window you should see the existing disk and and unformatted second disk. Right click on the second disk and select 'Create Partition' (or similar). Once you have a partiton you should be able to use it with Norton Ghost, or, if you format it, with XP.

HTH

Should I do a primary partition or an extended partition

edit......I'll do a primary partition...........I'm going in!........Smoke me a kipper, I'll be back for breakfast!

bucketbakereturn · 17-01-2005, 18:22

SMHarman/Paul

i don't want to run two sets of post in one thread. I've a project planned for a new build, given the benchmark these days is 64bit OS/CPU+PCI Express.I've played CSSource and Hlf Life 2 and it'd be worth it for that alone

The goal would be to do as little reistallin of apps etc to a new master(and bigger faster) disk.

Thanks all.

Ramrod · 17-01-2005, 18:26

Right..it's formatting the HDD atm...

SMHarman · 17-01-2005, 18:27

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Originally Posted by Ramrod

Should I do a primary partition or an extended partition

edit......I'll do a primary partition...........I'm going in!........Smoke me a kipper, I'll be back for breakfast!

The first partition is the primary one, if you want to have more then one drive letter on the disk, then you create a primary and an extended partition. All drives must have a primary (logical) partition .
Amazing how quickly you pick this terminology up when trying to recover disks.
Oh and for those using SATA disks did you know you can plug an SATA cable into the jumper plug space, won't work, but you can (minor panic moment before I put the cables in the right place).

Ramrod · 17-01-2005, 19:10

Right Drive E

, is now 'partitioned' and apparently 'healthy'

Never had cause to do that before........learnt something new today

Downloading Norton Ghost atm........

...........180MB

17-01-2005, 21:29

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Originally Posted by Ramrod

Right Drive E

, is now 'partitioned' and apparently 'healthy'

Never had cause to do that before........learnt something new today

Downloading Norton Ghost atm........

...........180MB

indeed - my OEM version fits on a bootable floppy

- but obviously only works in DOS

- although it says it supports winxp

Ramrod · 17-01-2005, 21:38

Now..........I downloaded Norton Ghost and unzipped it and all I could find was a CD creator and a read me that said to run the CD creator (which I did).......that simply recreated the cdcreator and readme on a cd.....what gives?

I'm stuck

......and Symantec/nortons site is really unhelpful

Paul K · 17-01-2005, 21:42

Where did you download it from?

Ramrod · 17-01-2005, 21:43

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Originally Posted by Paul

Where did you download it from?

The official website......

Matthew · 17-01-2005, 21:47

Norton Ghost, I use that to clone my drive as a backup.

paulyoung666 · 17-01-2005, 21:49

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Originally Posted by Ramrod

Now..........I downloaded Norton Ghost and unzipped it and all I could find was a CD creator and a read me that said to run the CD creator (which I did).......that simply recreated the cdcreator and readme on a cd.....what gives?

I'm stuck

......and Symantec/nortons site is really unhelpful

was it an .iso file you dl'ed ????? , if it was , then you need something like nero to burn it

Ramrod · 17-01-2005, 21:52

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Originally Posted by leggom

Norton Ghost, I use that to clone my drive as a backup.

Thats nice..........please tell me how to install/run the fu*ker

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Originally Posted by paulyoung666

was it an .iso file you dl'ed ????? , if it was , then you need something like nero to burn it

Yep, it was an .iso and her lappy has something called Roxio........is that the problem?