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hard drive cloner or summit

  • 26-12-2009 1:18pm
    #1
    eurotrotter
    Registered Users Posts: 1,073 ✭✭✭


    how are ye all


    hope ye all had a lovely xmas day yesterday

    i am looking to find a software that will clone my hard drive onto another hard drive, so that it will simply be a case of removing the existing hard drive int he desktop, fitting the 'backup/standby' hard drive when the computer gets dog slow.

    Here is the thing, i am living in Germany and after a couple of weeks my dads pc gets dog slow, he dont know how to reinstall and reformat xp so, i was thinkin of just having a spare hard drive on standby for him to fit, that will have a fresh copy of xp install and will run at optimal speeds.

    He has no bother fitting hard drives, its just the reformatting/reinstalling that he has bother with

    thanks very much for the help

    ed


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  • #2
    Capt'n Midnight
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 92,443 Mod ✭✭✭✭Capt'n Midnight


    Bestway is with a bootable CD so the files aren't in use,

    before cloning , empty all temp files and do a quick tidy up to save time copying junk


    clonezilla is good - there are others do a search on the forum


  • #3
    Alearner
    Closed Accounts Posts: 10 ✭Alearner


    I tried cloning a hard disk which had Windows 200 Professional.

    I used Acronis.

    The original hard disk was 20 GB (!!!) in size, and the new one was bigger, (maybe 80 GB)

    The operation didn't work.


  • #4
    Capt'n Midnight
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 92,443 Mod ✭✭✭✭Capt'n Midnight


    Alearner wrote: »
    I tried cloning a hard disk which had Windows 200 Professional.

    I used Acronis.

    The original hard disk was 20 GB (!!!) in size, and the new one was bigger, (maybe 80 GB)

    The operation didn't work.
    check that the partition is bootable and is at the same offset from the start of the HDD


    and BTW windows cloning will usually fail if you copy to a pc with a different mother board


  • #5
    TJJP
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,523 ✭✭✭TJJP


    Depending on the new drive you buy, software such as Seagate DiscWizard (or the fujitsu or other equivalent) is available as a free download. This will make an exact copy from an existing drive to a new drive. Very handy.


  • #6
    JDxtra
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,933 ✭✭✭JDxtra


    But what happens when, after a few weeks, the second drive becomes slow also? Surely it would be better to focus on why the computer is getting slow after a short period of use.


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  • #7
    eurotrotter
    Registered Users Posts: 1,073 ✭✭✭eurotrotter


    thanks for the help guys

    it worked a treat.

    i ended up using seagate wizard in the end, worked a treat, so a special thanks to TJJP for that.

    happy new years to all

    all the best

    ed


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