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Can I Clone My Boot Drive To My New WD SATA?
Ken Hall wrote:
I just bought a Western Digital SATA drive. I asked two different clerks if I would be able to make an exact clone of my existing main drive. Both assured me I could. I have now opened the package and the installation instructions talk about creating partitions in preparation for copying the old drive to the new drive. For it to cloned the drive it the resulting drive would have the same partitions as are on the source (old) drive. It also has this phrase, "This utility enables you to copy files from one drive to another." Files? I don't want to copy individual files. I want to clone an entire drive bit-for-bit. In my case I have 4 bootable partitions using Partition Magic's Boot Magic boot manager -- one XP partition, and 3 Win98 partitions. There's a fifth partition on the drive visible to all. I want to clone this drive. Doesn't Western Digital's setup software (called Data Lifeguard I think) make a exact copy (clone) of your previous drive when you install a new main drive? If not, I must abandon this change, and return the drive. Go to the Western Digital site, click "support", then in the "search the knowledgebase" box at the lower right plug in "1151" (without the quotation marks). If that doesn't help, just get a copy of Ghost and be done with it--you won't have to worry about the crappy utilities that come bundled with drives anymore. Since you have Partition Magic I'm surprised you don't have Drive Image as well. Ken -- --John Reply to jclarke at ae tee tee global dot net (was jclarke at eye bee em dot net) |
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Ken Hall wrote:
On Sat, 08 Jan 2005 07:44:11 -0500, "J. Clarke" wrote: Go to the Western Digital site, click "support", then in the "search the knowledgebase" box at the lower right plug in "1151" (without the quotation marks). I spoke to a tech support person this morning and she said you have to do it one partition at a time and she doesn't know if it will work with bootable partitions. Try the procedure--first-tier techs don't always know what they're talking about. Also, Partition Magic is supposed to have a disk copy utility included, which is probably the lightweight version of Drive Image. Ken -- --John Reply to jclarke at ae tee tee global dot net (was jclarke at eye bee em dot net) |
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You can only clone Windows XP boot partitions to a drive with the same
geometry! Dave |
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Nonsense. Perhaps if you use Gnu dd.
"Dave L" wrote in message ... You can only clone Windows XP boot partitions to a drive with the same geometry! Dave |
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