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SATA to SATA Ghosting
Dell XPS Gen5 with a 160GB SATA HDD
If I put another SATA HDD in my machine do you think I could Ghost a "back-up" onto the second HDD? I guess backing up, or cloning, a SATA HDD is not so clear cut as using two older IDE HDDs. You'd think software engineers would plan for these things.
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~Dave
If I put another SATA HDD in my machine do you think I could Ghost a "back-up" onto the second HDD? I guess backing up, or cloning, a SATA HDD is not so clear cut as using two older IDE HDDs. You'd think software engineers would plan for these things.
Thanks,
~Dave
Message Edited by Dave7518873 on 07-26-2005 09:54 PM
Dave7518873
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July 27th, 2005 03:00
Thanks very much. Casper mentions SATA drives but not Acronis. Do you have an opinion as to which is best?
~Dave
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Dave7518873.
You can use either of the following excellent utilities for drive to drive cloning.
http://www.acronis.com/products/trueimage/
http://www.fssdev.com/products/casperxp/
Bev.
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July 27th, 2005 10:00
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July 27th, 2005 11:00
Well thanks very much. I appreciate that.
I see that Casper has something new/different which seems kind of risky to me. It has a
feature which allows for "incremental cloning" which only changes what's changed since the last cloning, to save time. I'm wondering how well that works.
~Dave
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July 27th, 2005 12:00
I can only speak to my own experience with Acronis. I did this to replace the older drive with a new drive. Previously, I had tried using the Seagate cloning software on another computer to clone an IDE 40 gig up to a new IDE 80 gig drive to replace the 40 gig. All kinds of goofy quirks popped up and I ended up abandoning the clone and going back to the 40 gig drive only. I knew I had to find a different program from the Seagate program, and the two options were Norton Ghost 9.0 and Acronis True Image 8.0
Doing some research on Ghost led me to believe I would have to copy each of the 3 partitions (1 main and 2 hidden) separately, and I was not clear on copying the boot tracks once or 3 times plus some other options. Acronis seemed to do it all at once with no questions about options to check, so I went with Acronis. Using Acronis to clone was a pleasure. NO problems enountered whatsoever. I have removed the program already as I do not use it for backups, but I'm sure it offered many backup options that you would be looking for.
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July 27th, 2005 12:00
Thanks very much,
~Dave
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July 27th, 2005 15:00
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July 27th, 2005 15:00
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