Ghosting Hard Drive questions

Rain Man

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Ive just bought a sata drive and im wanting to ghost the os onto it. Anyone got any tips before i start?

Also which program should i use? Ive got partition magic could i use that?

Thanks for your help

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There is a problem with Ghost and using SATA and RAID. There is a fix, but it was something that wasn't present when I last tried it. I will never use Norton again, not that I use their AV anyway (Fsecure all the way). I've just got Acronis Home and it seems good. Nice interface etc, haven't tried it out yet though.
 
Well, I'm pretty sure there is a 30day trial. I'm sure you could do what you need to in the trial :D.
 
When I had the 30day trial you couldnt actually get it to do anything such as create a new partition, you had all the options listed but clicking apply changes would do nothing as it was a trial. Maybe the newer version is different.
 
Mikey1280 said:
When I had the 30day trial you couldnt actually get it to do anything such as create a new partition, you had all the options listed but clicking apply changes would do nothing as it was a trial. Maybe the newer version is different.
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That is very likely, I doubt it will run as a full program for 30 days.
 
Dutch Guy said:
That is very likely, I doubt it will run as a full program for 30 days.
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:( - I've had a few programs do run full - Nero, Diskeeper, but then again, not all will. I don't know about Acronis, as I have it now (full).
 
Rain Man said:
Ive got partition magic could i use that?
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If you've got no money for now partiton magic can be used.

If you've got a spare HDD plug it in and copy the partion you want to back up to it. If you only have one HDD or want to backup to a HDD which is permanently connected, copy and hide the partition.

That's what I used to do and it a much faster than buring/restoring partitons from a CD/DVD. Also there is no risk of scratching a CD/DVD.

If using an old spare HDD just leave it in your drive cage and pop off case side panel to attach/remove the power cable.

edit:/ If you do have the room in your case for an extra HDD, instead of buying Ghost for £40 get a 80GB HDD. You'll save some money as you won't need a couple of DVD-Rs everytime you want to make a new backup. You'll have enough room on the HDD to make several backups of your system partition and maybe even create a visible parition to backup your documents.

If you install BootMagic (incl with PMagic) then you can instantly boot to any of your backed up paritions.
 
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cheers for the replies. im not looking to back up though. ive got a 120gb ide hdd and a new 120gb sata hdd. i want to get rid of the 120 ide because its a maxtor and ive had troubles in the past

so basicly just want to copy the whole contents of the ide to sata without having to reinstall windows

will any program do this?

cheers
 
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