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Old 14-08-2005, 00:56   #1
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my current sata has become noisey and slow at access times. looking for best solution to clone and keep all settings files and personal files together as is?? currently have maxtor 120gb thinkin of buying another 120gb and using current noisey one as spare.
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Old 14-08-2005, 01:12   #2
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Does your native sata controller show up in windows set up or did you need to install a driver?
If it does show native one option would be norton ghost
Im not sure but if you add an identical drive then set it up in raid as a mirror then in theory the drive will clone.Once raid array is built remove noisy drive and you should have a working o/s.(ive not bothered much with raid so I could be way off track) if it does work disable the array once complete and format old drive
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Re: clone hard drive
I've used Acronis Migrate Easy to transfer one 40gb disk to a brand new 160gb and it worked a treat. All you do is stick both disks in the PC boot into Windows and run the software. After following the instructions it will reboot the PC and copy the entire disk to the new disk. Then all that is left is to replace the old disk with the new disk and continue working. Here's the link http://www.acronis.com/homecomputing...s/migrateeasy/
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Old 15-08-2005, 10:46   #4
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Acronis backup software can also do it. True Image has a lot of other useful features (key features are here: http://www.acronis.com/homecomputing.../features.html ), that's why I use it. But if you just want to clone your disk "once in a life time" - Migrate Easy is a good solution too.
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Re: clone hard drive
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my current sata has become noisey and slow at access times. looking for best solution to clone and keep all settings files and personal files together as is?? currently have maxtor 120gb thinkin of buying another 120gb and using current noisey one as spare.
Some hard drive manufacturers offer a free cloning program, such as Maxtor, they have a program called MaxBlast which can be run in windows and will do a duplicate of your drive. Taking into account the drive containing the duplicate is a Maxtor drive.

Check around the manufacturer's websites and see if theres a free program rather than buying one first.
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Re: clone hard drive
Another vote for MigrateEasy here.

It migrated my entire installation ... and it was easy.
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