copy hard drive....

ants83 · 14 May 2008 at 15:10

using a program such as acronis true image. If i copy my drive to a faster drive will it work 100% as before??

bledd · 14 May 2008 at 15:13

yup

'clone' in acronis, i'd run it from a bootable acronis cd

ants83 · 14 May 2008 at 15:15

cheets for the speedie reply bledd

bledd · 14 May 2008 at 15:21

the only time you may get issues is if you move from an IDE drive to an SATA drive, if the drivers aren't setup..

thegoonden · 14 May 2008 at 15:36

Acronis is super reliable at this. As said, you may get SATA>IDE issues or vice versa, but if you have your mobo drivers installed you'll be fine.

Watch it go but, it copies data faster than anything I've ever seen.

ZXSpectrum · 14 May 2008 at 17:34

I have the new version of True Image Echo at work and i can do a bare system backup and restore in less than 4mins... :eek:

Dark_Angel · 14 May 2008 at 22:44

/Thread hi-jack

I am kind of thinking of doing similar - but the problem is (you guessed it folks) I have an IDE hard drive and want to transfer it to a 1TB sata drive I have coming.

Currently the IDE drive is a 250 GB drive partioned in to 2 120GB (roughly) partions, I have Windows XP kept on that and I have a 500GB sata that has Vista on it (plus the other partion has other random bits and pieces).

Xp is obviously all setup with drivers and the like, but would it be a pain in the but to do the partion copy of the XP, since obviously the sizes wouldn't match up on the Sata drive ? Or would the image software create the correct size partion automatically?

For example as a rough explanation of what I mean:

1024GB of space

120GB of space = Windows XP partion

400 GB of space = whatever drive I want to create within windows Vista

Rest of Space = whatever

fobose · 14 May 2008 at 22:52

I think it "auto fills" the rest of the space to the same parition, so your 120GB XP partition will suddently become 1024GB - it did when I used Norton ghost when ghosting a 160GB drive to a 200GB drive. If thats the case, you might want to partition the drive to roughly what you want rather than having to try and "shrink" the partition later on.

thegoonden · 15 May 2008 at 04:35

It offers an option to partition the new drive in the same proportions as the old one. Or you can always make new partitions by hand and just ask TI to copy the old ones to the new ones one at a time.

joedeath332 · 16 May 2008 at 21:49

I currently have XP installed on my IDE 240GB drive, and using arcronis i did a full image backup of a pretty nex xp instalation,with a few games. ( came to 25gig in total ).
So off i went to try to install this image onto 1 of my SATA 74gb raptors.
I booted up using a rescue cd , then started to transfer the image.
to start with it said it would take 2 hrs :eek:

in the end it took about 1hr 20 mins , however i got about 20 warnings saying that so and so file failed to transfer ( yet i had verified the image before )
needless to say i tried to boot from the raptor afterwards using my newly imaged drive,, and yes it did not work

and now that i am going to order one of the new f1 drives to use as my main o/s drive, i am wondering how i can get this IDE to SATA image thing to work, or maybee it will be best just to start again. :confused: