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Cloning WindowsXP
After Michael nudged me into getting my SATA drives working, I decided to
try cloning my Windows XP IDE volume to the new SATA drive ---- without buying Ghost or the like. I downloaded a copy of EasyClone Standard for $20 which claimed to be able to clone XP. What a piece of crap SW --- IMHO. I had several email communications with their support people to no avail. Good thing they've got a 30 day money back guarantee, While searching the web for "Best Windows XP cloning software", I ran across a brief reference to Seagate's Diskwizard. A basic version of Diskwizard is packaged with Seagate drives. By coincidence I happened to have an old Seagate installation disk so I decided "What the heck!" and gave it a try. THE DANG THING WORKS! And it did the job in short order while EasyClone took several hours and got no further than 8% completed before crapping out. You can download the latest version from Seagate's site he http://tinyurl.com/27y63t It will complain if you try to use it on a non-Seagate HDD ("We won't offer support.") but functions without problem. Maybe this is old news to many of you but I couldn't find any good leads for such free SW. Now I can rest! Cheers |
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On Thu, 13 Dec 2007 23:09:38 -0700, DonC wrote:
appened to have an old Seagate installation disk so I decided "What the heck!" and gave it a try. THE DANG THING WORKS! And it did the job in short order while EasyClone took several hours and got no further than 8% completed before crapping out. Yes, I've been using it to clone HDs brfore trying Linux - just in case the partitioning goes wrong. Pity it won't do selected partitions. You can download the latest version from Seagate's site he http://tinyurl.com/27y63t It will complain if you try to use it on a non-Seagate HDD ("We won't offer support.") but functions without problem. Now that's interesting. I'd tried to use it w/o the Maxtor (DW sees Maxtor as Seagate) and just accepted that it wouldn't work. Actually (can't try atm as the main HD is the Maxtor) ISTR that DW gave the message then just closed! What version is yours? -- Peter. You don't understand Newton's Third Law of Motion? It's not rocket science, you know. |
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"DonC" wrote in message ... After Michael nudged me into getting my SATA drives working, I decided to try cloning my Windows XP IDE volume to the new SATA drive ---- without buying Ghost or the like. I downloaded a copy of EasyClone Standard for $20 which claimed to be able to clone XP. What a piece of crap SW --- IMHO. I had several email communications with their support people to no avail. Good thing they've got a 30 day money back guarantee, While searching the web for "Best Windows XP cloning software", I ran across a brief reference to Seagate's Diskwizard. A basic version of Diskwizard is packaged with Seagate drives. By coincidence I happened to have an old Seagate installation disk so I decided "What the heck!" and gave it a try. THE DANG THING WORKS! And it did the job in short order while EasyClone took several hours and got no further than 8% completed before crapping out. You can download the latest version from Seagate's site he http://tinyurl.com/27y63t It will complain if you try to use it on a non-Seagate HDD ("We won't offer support.") but functions without problem. Maybe this is old news to many of you but I couldn't find any good leads for such free SW. Now I can rest! Cheers had you bought Acronis Trueimage you would have already had the full blown version of Diskwizard...............for $20 crap you did buy. Diskwizard is Trueimage. |
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"Me" wrote in message ... "DonC" wrote in message ... After Michael nudged me into getting my SATA drives working, I decided to try cloning my Windows XP IDE volume to the new SATA drive ---- without buying Ghost or the like. I downloaded a copy of EasyClone Standard for $20 which claimed to be able to clone XP. What a piece of crap SW --- IMHO. I had several email communications with their support people to no avail. Good thing they've got a 30 day money back guarantee, While searching the web for "Best Windows XP cloning software", I ran across a brief reference to Seagate's Diskwizard. A basic version of Diskwizard is packaged with Seagate drives. By coincidence I happened to have an old Seagate installation disk so I decided "What the heck!" and gave it a try. THE DANG THING WORKS! And it did the job in short order while EasyClone took several hours and got no further than 8% completed before crapping out. You can download the latest version from Seagate's site he http://tinyurl.com/27y63t It will complain if you try to use it on a non-Seagate HDD ("We won't offer support.") but functions without problem. Maybe this is old news to many of you but I couldn't find any good leads for such free SW. Now I can rest! Cheers had you bought Acronis Trueimage you would have already had the full blown version of Diskwizard...............for $20 crap you did buy. Diskwizard is Trueimage. Perhaps the difference between the two products then is that True Image actually works. -- Jan Alter or |
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"Me" wrote in message ... "DonC" wrote in message ... After Michael nudged me into getting my SATA drives working, I decided to try cloning my Windows XP IDE volume to the new SATA drive ---- without buying Ghost or the like. I downloaded a copy of EasyClone Standard for $20 which claimed to be able to clone XP. What a piece of crap SW --- IMHO. I had several email communications with their support people to no avail. Good thing they've got a 30 day money back guarantee, While searching the web for "Best Windows XP cloning software", I ran across a brief reference to Seagate's Diskwizard. A basic version of Diskwizard is packaged with Seagate drives. By coincidence I happened to have an old Seagate installation disk so I decided "What the heck!" and gave it a try. THE DANG THING WORKS! And it did the job in short order while EasyClone took several hours and got no further than 8% completed before crapping out. You can download the latest version from Seagate's site he http://tinyurl.com/27y63t It will complain if you try to use it on a non-Seagate HDD ("We won't offer support.") but functions without problem. Maybe this is old news to many of you but I couldn't find any good leads for such free SW. Now I can rest! Cheers had you bought Acronis Trueimage you would have already had the full blown version of Diskwizard...............for $20 crap you did buy. Diskwizard is Trueimage. Well, since my $20 was refunded by EasyClone, I guess I've actually saved the $49.99 + shipping that Acronis Trueimage would have cost me : ) Or are you saying there's an advantage to paying $50+ rather than the free copy of Diskwizard? |
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"PeterC" wrote in message ... On Thu, 13 Dec 2007 23:09:38 -0700, DonC wrote: appened to have an old Seagate installation disk so I decided "What the heck!" and gave it a try. THE DANG THING WORKS! And it did the job in short order while EasyClone took several hours and got no further than 8% completed before crapping out. Yes, I've been using it to clone HDs brfore trying Linux - just in case the partitioning goes wrong. Pity it won't do selected partitions. You can download the latest version from Seagate's site he http://tinyurl.com/27y63t It will complain if you try to use it on a non-Seagate HDD ("We won't offer support.") but functions without problem. Now that's interesting. I'd tried to use it w/o the Maxtor (DW sees Maxtor as Seagate) and just accepted that it wouldn't work. Actually (can't try atm as the main HD is the Maxtor) ISTR that DW gave the message then just closed! What version is yours? -- Peter. The version that I used is 4.9.1.0 with files dated circa 2004. Don't yet know the newly downloaded version number since I haven't expanded it. My main (old) drive is also a Maxtor and my SATA destination HDD is an Hitachi. |
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"Jan Alter" wrote in message news:A%s8j.23676$dX.9252@trnddc08... "Me" wrote in message ... "DonC" wrote in message ... After Michael nudged me into getting my SATA drives working, I decided to try cloning my Windows XP IDE volume to the new SATA drive ---- without buying Ghost or the like. I downloaded a copy of EasyClone Standard for $20 which claimed to be able to clone XP. What a piece of crap SW --- IMHO. I had several email communications with their support people to no avail. Good thing they've got a 30 day money back guarantee, While searching the web for "Best Windows XP cloning software", I ran across a brief reference to Seagate's Diskwizard. A basic version of Diskwizard is packaged with Seagate drives. By coincidence I happened to have an old Seagate installation disk so I decided "What the heck!" and gave it a try. THE DANG THING WORKS! And it did the job in short order while EasyClone took several hours and got no further than 8% completed before crapping out. You can download the latest version from Seagate's site he http://tinyurl.com/27y63t It will complain if you try to use it on a non-Seagate HDD ("We won't offer support.") but functions without problem. Maybe this is old news to many of you but I couldn't find any good leads for such free SW. Now I can rest! Cheers had you bought Acronis Trueimage you would have already had the full blown version of Diskwizard...............for $20 crap you did buy. Diskwizard is Trueimage. Perhaps we should clarify that Diskwizard is NOT Trueimage no more than Diskwizard is Seagate. Diskimage is copyrighted by Kroll Ontrack Inc. I guess that means Diskwizard is Kroll Ontrack? Perhaps the difference between the two products then is that True Image actually works. -- Jan Alter Not sure what two products you're referring to. Diskwizard definitely works. I assume Trueimage works. EasyClone may work for some people but it's ugly and definitely didn't work for me. |
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On Fri, 14 Dec 2007 10:03:56 -0700, DonC wrote:
Now that's interesting. I'd tried to use it w/o the Maxtor (DW sees Maxtor as Seagate) and just accepted that it wouldn't work. Actually (can't try atm as the main HD is the Maxtor) ISTR that DW gave the message then just closed! What version is yours? -- Peter. The version that I used is 4.9.1.0 with files dated circa 2004. Don't yet know the newly downloaded version number since I haven't expanded it. Thanks. Mines v10.0.0.5018, 2006-ish. My main (old) drive is also a Maxtor and my SATA destination HDD is an Hitachi. My other SATA is a Samsung and the PATA is a Hitachi Deskstar. I must try again without the Maxtor but, beware, the new version might not play if there's not a qualifying HDD present! -- Peter. You don't understand Newton's Third Law of Motion? It's not rocket science, you know. |
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"DonC" wrote in message ... "Me" wrote in message ... "DonC" wrote in message ... After Michael nudged me into getting my SATA drives working, I decided to try cloning my Windows XP IDE volume to the new SATA drive ---- without buying Ghost or the like. I downloaded a copy of EasyClone Standard for $20 which claimed to be able to clone XP. What a piece of crap SW --- IMHO. I had several email communications with their support people to no avail. Good thing they've got a 30 day money back guarantee, While searching the web for "Best Windows XP cloning software", I ran across a brief reference to Seagate's Diskwizard. A basic version of Diskwizard is packaged with Seagate drives. By coincidence I happened to have an old Seagate installation disk so I decided "What the heck!" and gave it a try. THE DANG THING WORKS! And it did the job in short order while EasyClone took several hours and got no further than 8% completed before crapping out. You can download the latest version from Seagate's site he http://tinyurl.com/27y63t It will complain if you try to use it on a non-Seagate HDD ("We won't offer support.") but functions without problem. Maybe this is old news to many of you but I couldn't find any good leads for such free SW. Now I can rest! Cheers had you bought Acronis Trueimage you would have already had the full blown version of Diskwizard...............for $20 crap you did buy. Diskwizard is Trueimage. Well, since my $20 was refunded by EasyClone, I guess I've actually saved the $49.99 + shipping that Acronis Trueimage would have cost me : ) Or are you saying there's an advantage to paying $50+ rather than the free copy of Diskwizard? yes you have ****ed about for to long................wasting our time. |
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"Me" wrote in message ... "DonC" wrote in message ... "Me" wrote in message ... "DonC" wrote in message ... After Michael nudged me into getting my SATA drives working, I decided to try cloning my Windows XP IDE volume to the new SATA drive ---- without buying Ghost or the like. I downloaded a copy of EasyClone Standard for $20 which claimed to be able to clone XP. What a piece of crap SW --- IMHO. I had several email communications with their support people to no avail. Good thing they've got a 30 day money back guarantee, While searching the web for "Best Windows XP cloning software", I ran across a brief reference to Seagate's Diskwizard. A basic version of Diskwizard is packaged with Seagate drives. By coincidence I happened to have an old Seagate installation disk so I decided "What the heck!" and gave it a try. THE DANG THING WORKS! And it did the job in short order while EasyClone took several hours and got no further than 8% completed before crapping out. You can download the latest version from Seagate's site he http://tinyurl.com/27y63t It will complain if you try to use it on a non-Seagate HDD ("We won't offer support.") but functions without problem. Maybe this is old news to many of you but I couldn't find any good leads for such free SW. Now I can rest! Cheers had you bought Acronis Trueimage you would have already had the full blown version of Diskwizard...............for $20 crap you did buy. Diskwizard is Trueimage. Well, since my $20 was refunded by EasyClone, I guess I've actually saved the $49.99 + shipping that Acronis Trueimage would have cost me : ) Or are you saying there's an advantage to paying $50+ rather than the free copy of Diskwizard? yes you have ****ed about for to long................wasting our time. Oh my! You crushed my feelings : ( Sob, sob. When you reach puberty I may remove you from my Blocked Senders list. |
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