Super exact clonage

warder · Mar 18, 2005, 10:50 PM

So I got one of those new awesomo SATA hard drives and Im using a really old 40 gig ata drive... Ive been trying and trying. I CANT MOVE EVERYTHING TO THE NEW DRIVE!!! I even went to WD page and used their copy thing, but when i boot with the old drive out it gets to the login screen, then it just stays where it says windows. And at the bottem it shows shutdown. I need something that will do an EXACT clone. IS the reason i cant login because the registry says its soposed to be the C: drive? So If I swap letters with the new and old (I know how) will this work, or will it put me in a bad situation?

No_Style · Mar 19, 2005, 02:50 PM

Greetings,

Are you doing this within Windows? If you are, you can do the exact clone, but then unplug your old HDD and then try to boot up with the new one. It should work, unless you need to install Windows SATA drivers first.. I

I would just do a simple reinstall and set your old HDD as a slave and copy over the data you want to keep. Then, I would just format that old HDD and leave it as a storage.

P.S - I've done HDD to HDD clones, via DOS and Ghost, however I've never performed it from IDE to SATA.

PangingJr · Mar 19, 2005, 05:32 PM

Ghost used to be the best for this in the old time,
i still like to use it for partitions to partitions,
have not done any disk to disk for so long now,
and i think, the other products can do it better now.

if you insist on making an exact clone copy you would need one of these...
all will work on a bootable floppy disk or CD.

Acronis True Image 8.0
Disk Cloning - http://www.acronis.com/homecomputing...s-cloning.html

-Or-

Acronis MigrateEasy 6.0
http://www.acronis.com/homecomputing...s/migrateeasy/

-Or-

Paragon Drive Backup 6.0
http://www.drive-backup.com/home/personal/features.htm

Paragon Knowledge Base System...

ID 1390: How to upgrade/copy old system hard disk to a new one
http://kb.paragon.ag/paragon/include...&statId=271854

ID 1923: How to restore a system partition on a computer having no workable OS
http://kb.paragon.ag/paragon/include...&statId=271858

-Or-

Partition copy with BING (BootitNG.com),
D/L the BING, create a bootable floppy disk and boot the PC with the floppy,
click "Cancel Install", then enter Maintenance and click on the Partition work,
highlight and Copy the old C partition, and then select the new HDD and click on Paste.
next, click on the View MBR and then select the entry for the new C partition and click the "Set Active",
then click on the "Write Standard MBR".
final, turn off the computer and change/reset the boot HDD. done.

-Or-

HDD clone/ Create an image of the partitions and restore it to the new HDD with Norton Ghost using a bootable floppy or CD. the new HDD may need to be prepared with a primary partition and Set Active first. anyway, i'm not sure Ghost can do it or not.

Mar 18, 2005, 10:50 PM	#1
warder DriverHeaven Junior Member Join Date: Mar 2005 Posts: 36 Rep Power: 0	Super exact clonage So I got one of those new awesomo SATA hard drives and Im using a really old 40 gig ata drive... Ive been trying and trying. I CANT MOVE EVERYTHING TO THE NEW DRIVE!!! I even went to WD page and used their copy thing, but when i boot with the old drive out it gets to the login screen, then it just stays where it says windows. And at the bottem it shows shutdown. I need something that will do an EXACT clone. IS the reason i cant login because the registry says its soposed to be the C: drive? So If I swap letters with the new and old (I know how) will this work, or will it put me in a bad situation?

Mar 19, 2005, 02:50 PM	#2
No_Style Styleless Wonder Join Date: Jun 2002 Location: Ottawa, Ontario Posts: 6,034 Rep Power: 0	Greetings, Are you doing this within Windows? If you are, you can do the exact clone, but then unplug your old HDD and then try to boot up with the new one. It should work, unless you need to install Windows SATA drivers first.. I I would just do a simple reinstall and set your old HDD as a slave and copy over the data you want to keep. Then, I would just format that old HDD and leave it as a storage. P.S - I've done HDD to HDD clones, via DOS and Ghost, however I've never performed it from IDE to SATA. __________________ "The Best Style Is No Style" Specifications Here Last edited by No_Style; Mar 19, 2005 at 02:55 PM.

Mar 19, 2005, 05:32 PM	#3
PangingJr Member Join Date: Mar 2003 Posts: 5,989 Rep Power: 71	Ghost used to be the best for this in the old time, i still like to use it for partitions to partitions, have not done any disk to disk for so long now, and i think, the other products can do it better now. if you insist on making an exact clone copy you would need one of these... all will work on a bootable floppy disk or CD. Acronis True Image 8.0 Disk Cloning - http://www.acronis.com/homecomputing...s-cloning.html -Or- Acronis MigrateEasy 6.0 http://www.acronis.com/homecomputing...s/migrateeasy/ -Or- Paragon Drive Backup 6.0 http://www.drive-backup.com/home/personal/features.htm Paragon Knowledge Base System... ID 1390: How to upgrade/copy old system hard disk to a new one http://kb.paragon.ag/paragon/include...&statId=271854 ID 1923: How to restore a system partition on a computer having no workable OS http://kb.paragon.ag/paragon/include...&statId=271858 -Or- Partition copy with BING (BootitNG.com), D/L the BING, create a bootable floppy disk and boot the PC with the floppy, click "Cancel Install", then enter Maintenance and click on the Partition work, highlight and Copy the old C partition, and then select the new HDD and click on Paste. next, click on the View MBR and then select the entry for the new C partition and click the "Set Active", then click on the "Write Standard MBR". final, turn off the computer and change/reset the boot HDD. done. -Or- HDD clone/ Create an image of the partitions and restore it to the new HDD with Norton Ghost using a bootable floppy or CD. the new HDD may need to be prepared with a primary partition and Set Active first. anyway, i'm not sure Ghost can do it or not. Last edited by Ctrl-Alt-Del; Mar 19, 2005 at 05:39 PM.