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03-30-2006, 08:49 AM
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Ronald Epstein
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Here's my situation....
My Lenovo T60 is about to arrive any day now
with a 100GB SATA 5400 hard drive.
However, after I ordered the T60 as an
afterthought, I ordered a 100GB SATA 7200
hard drive to replace it as the 5400 is too slow.
Here's the problem....
The 7200 hard drive is on back order for
4 weeks. I want to start using my T60 immediately.
So....
I figured I'd load my 5400 hard drive system
up with all the software and stuff I want on
it. When the 7200 hard drive comes in, I'll
replace the drive and transfer from one drive
to another.
Here's how I plan to do it (and this is
where I need your help)
I am going to use software such as ACRONIS
TRUE IMAGE or GENIE PC BACKUP to create an
IMAGE of the 5200 hard drive. I have an
external Maxtor One Touch drive for my
desktop that I can store that image on.
As soon as I replace the 5200 with the
7200 hard drive I plan to use the LENOVO
FACTORY RECOVERY DISC to load windows and
the basic drivers. Then I'll load the TRUE
IMAGE or GENIE PC BACKUP software and RESTORE
the image that I made to my Maxtor drive.
Will this work? Can I expect all the information
I took off of the 5200 drive to work as well on
the 7200 drive?
Also, I take it that it won't matter that I am
moving an IMAGE of a 5400 hard drive to a 7200
hard drive?
Does the IMAGE contain any information about
the 5400 hard drive that may hamper performance
of the 7200?
Thanks in advance for the help!
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03-30-2006, 07:19 PM
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That should certainly work. If you haven't bought a program yet, I would suggest Norton Ghost . . . but that's really just because I'm more familiar with it.
Restoring from a image to the new drive will in no way hamper the performance.
Another option, if you have another computer laying around, is that you could use the XP Files & Settings Transfer Wizard and save the file it creates onto the other computer (preferably on a network folder or on a firewire HD). Then just install Windows on the new drive and then run the wizard again.
Either way should work without any performance degradation.
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03-30-2006, 08:08 PM
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I would prefer it if your backup software can be booted from a CD, and launched from the CD, and then backup the hard drive to the external hard drive via USB as a imaged file of the entire hard drive to the external hard drive.
Trying to backup the hard drive with software loaded on the same hard drive being backed up complicates things.
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03-30-2006, 09:05 PM
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I would recommend Acronis over Norton Ghost - too many problems with the latest Ghost from what I've read. Acronis can also do incremental backups - I don't think Ghost can do that. Also, Acronis can backup while you work.
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03-31-2006, 07:23 AM
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Most replacement notebook hard drives come with cloning/imaging software. I recently replaced my notebook's hard drive and cloned the old one with the Apricorn cloning software that came with it. It runs from a bootable cd so that the operation can be done without Windows running.
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03-31-2006, 10:17 PM
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i was about to ask something like this too.
i have a laptop with a failing hd.
so we sent it in under warranty and the drive was replaced.
now i have a new drive with xp installed and the old drive with all the stuff on it.
how do i get the stuff onto the new drive?
i hâve to put the old drive into the lap and taKE out the new one to use my "stuff".
layman's term's as i am mostly computer illiterate.
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03-31-2006, 11:01 PM
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Tony, what you need is an external enclosure (for a 2.5" notebook drive) and a cloning program (True Image, Ghost, etc.). You can install your old HD into the enclosure and then use the cloning software to clone its contents to the new HD in your laptop. Then you can use your old hard drive in its enclosure as an additional storage drive or a backup (or both).
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03-31-2006, 11:59 PM
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hmm, that sounds easy.
now off to get one of those cloning thingies.
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04-01-2006, 03:59 AM
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Ronald Epstein
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Tony,
It's funny Jason brought that up. I am replacing a
slow 5400 hard drive with a 7200 hard drive for my
notebook and need to clone the drive.
I found this enclosure
If Jason agrees this is okay, then that is what I
will be purchasing.
I take it these enclosures have the correct connector
plug for laptop hard drives?
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04-01-2006, 07:05 AM
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You may find when you've restored the image to the new drive that XP won't boot because it doesn't recognise the hard drive's hardware identifier. True Image may take care of this but I know Ghost does not. You may need to familiarise yourself with Microsoft Sysprep utility which is designed for exactly this kind of situation.
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04-01-2006, 08:25 AM
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Ronald Epstein
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Rob,
Do you think the chances are high or low
that this could happen in my case?
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04-01-2006, 08:53 AM
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Ron, that enclosure will be perfectly fine. You should be able to install the drive in it in less than 5 minutes. It plugs into a USB port so no problem there either. I have no experience with Ghost or True Image so I don't know about any of the non booting issues Rob mentioned. I personally used Apricorn'e Easy Gig II to clone my drive. It took about 25 minutes to clone and 5 more minutes to swap out the drives and the new cloned drive booted up just fine.
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