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07-25-2007, 05:12 PM
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Replacing hard drive
Recently the hard drive on my 3 yr. old Compaq has been making grinding sounds. I'd like to replace it in case it's failing. The drive is a Seagate 80gb ATA. Can I buy another Seagate 80gb ATA and clone the drive? I don't have OS disks because Compaq didn't ship that way...they partitioned the drive and put a "restore" disk on the partition.
Will cloning and replacing the drive work? How do I go about this? I've installed hard drives before but only when I had OS disks -
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07-25-2007, 06:21 PM
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There should be an option in the Compaq BIOS/computer management you get into at first part of boot by tapping the F2 or F8 key(I believe) to make a copy of the OS that is on the restore partition.
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07-26-2007, 01:59 PM
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You can do an exact drive clone with Acronis True Image.
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07-30-2007, 04:51 PM
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Can I use Seagate Discwizard instead of True Image? It is Acronis software, and claims to migrate everything to the new drive.
Do I need to format the new disk before starting, or would that be a waste of time? or is this an rtfm moment... Last edited by adalgisa; 07-30-2007 at 04:54 PM. |
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07-30-2007, 05:29 PM
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Yes, you can use Disc Wizard as long as one of the drives is a Seagate. No need to format.
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