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02-19-2003, 07:46 PM
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swaping my hard drive and i want to transfer every thing off the old to the new drive
i have a dell dimension p133v, a year ago i pulled out the 2 gig hard drive and installed a 10 gig. now i want to put in a 40 gig hard drive and partion it to have win 98 and linux on it, but i want to transfer all data, even the o.s. (this will have all of my motem, ect driver's also) to the new 40 gig drive, on the 1st part. and install linux on the 2nd part. any one out there know how i can do this? thank's sling
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02-19-2003, 10:32 PM
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i have been checking the web for a way to, clone, mirror my hard drive. i found 3 of them, Drive2Drive,DriveUp and drive wizzard, has any one had any luck with these program's. c-ya sling
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02-19-2003, 10:39 PM
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Western Digital's " Data Lifeguard", their hard drive utility has the capability to copy drive to drive.
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Roger "Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall." -Confucius Last edited by Redo40; 02-19-2003 at 10:41 PM. |
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02-19-2003, 11:07 PM
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tks Redo40 i saw that but the ntfs support, scared me off, i'll give it a try, got the bootable disk made and in the am, i'll try it. tks sling
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02-19-2003, 11:21 PM
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Don't let the ntfs bother you, just means it supports it also. Good luck with the swap.
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02-19-2003, 11:40 PM
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Mondsreitersmann
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Slinger, no need to spend money on programs. If you are running W98 you can do it manually.
Check this thread: http://forum.pcmech.com/showthread.php?threadid=53642
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Darum still, füg' ich mich, wie Gott es will. Nun, so will ich wacker streiten, und sollt' ich den Tod erleiden, stirbt ein braver Reitersmann. Last edited by Nuclear Krusader; 02-19-2003 at 11:45 PM. |
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02-19-2003, 11:54 PM
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Cool tip Nuke, bookmarked that one for sure.
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02-20-2003, 09:57 AM
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I've got a complete article on doing this here: http://www.pcmech.com/show/optimize/118/
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02-20-2003, 11:08 AM
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Good article Jim, printed it for future reference.
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