FULL DISC COPY?

Massive Attack · 17 Feb 2007 at 22:27

Hi all, pretty sure the sammy hdd in my laptop is dying bought a 7k rpm seagate, is it possible to fully copy every file onto the new disc without format and stuff, i know seatools can do a lot of it but past experiances havent worked 100% anyone know if there is an easy way to do this?

phi1 · 17 Feb 2007 at 22:33

I find its always best to do a reinstall moving to a new hd, It makes it faster in my eyes! And frees all the rubbish!

Phil

snowdog · 18 Feb 2007 at 00:02

Norton ghost can make a perfect clone of your original hdd, you wont be able to tell the difference.

jbloggs · 18 Feb 2007 at 00:10

Acronis True Image can "clone" an HDD to another.

rpstewart · 18 Feb 2007 at 09:22

While both Ghost and True Image can both make image copies of your current HDD the fact that it's in a laptop complicates things a touch. To make an image copy you'll need to either connect both HDDs to the lappy (less hassle) or image to DVDs and then restore it from there. To connect a second HDD to a laptop you'll probably need to acquire a USB caddy for the new disk.

Massive Attack · 18 Feb 2007 at 09:50

rpstewart said:
While both Ghost and True Image can both make image copies of your current HDD the fact that it's in a laptop complicates things a touch. To make an image copy you'll need to either connect both HDDs to the lappy (less hassle) or image to DVDs and then restore it from there. To connect a second HDD to a laptop you'll probably need to acquire a USB caddy for the new disk.

i have a caddy but as the drives are sata can i not use my main system when my new mobo arrives?

rpstewart · 18 Feb 2007 at 10:10

Massive Attack said:
i have a caddy but as the drives are sata can i not use my main system when my new mobo arrives?

Yeah, that'll work.

Massive Attack · 18 Feb 2007 at 15:45

cheers