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Date:	Mon, 29 Aug 2005 17:35:06 PDT7
From:	Ray Davison <raydav@charter.net >
Reply-To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
Subject:	SCOUG-Help: HDD cloning / migration

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J R FOX wrote:
>
>>My last resort is
>>to pull the HDD and plug it into a desktop and clone
>>it on another HDD
>>there-- yes I have the adapter.
>
>
> I thought you were heavily into the drive trays deal,
> Ray ? Given that, I'd think this would be almost a
> snap for you, with all the necessary pieces on hand.
> Basically, all you need is a desktop that has two
> separate, independent IDE controllers / channels (NOT
> a Slave | Master arrangement -- and a box like the
> Shuttle has this), then hijack them temporarily for
> this special duty with your two HDDs. (I lose the
> optical drive while this procedure is underway,
> another reason for the floppy boot.)

I'd just rather not dissemble the laptop.

My primary box can handle eight IDE, and I don't even own covers for
it -- freebie from COMDEX 03. So, drive capacity is not an issue.
When booted from a floppy all HDD are inert, so master/slave is not an
issue, is it?
>
> I don't see any reason why one or both of the drives
> couldn't be laptop drives, given appropriate adaptors.

I am not interested in clowning the laptop HDD to another laptop HDD.
I do have two adapters and could do it. Right now I just want to
save the XP installation before I partition the drive and install an
OS selector.

> Of course, the easiest clone job is going to be when
> the HDDs are of the same size, preferably the same
> model.

What difference does all that make. So long as the target HDD has
enough free space for the source partition, it doesn't care what the
total size is or who made it.

> And as Peter and Svobi mentioned, you really
> want to do this with your power coming from a good
> UPS.

It seems to me that PM does write-before-delete, so even that fear may
be overstated.

By the way, I have nineteen IDE HDDs, from 120M to 160G. They all
work fine in $7.50 racks, in all my machines. They are from a variety
of manufactures. The only failure so far is a 4.5G IBM that used to
be 6.6G.

Ray

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