As long as the boot.ini is configured right any drive clone/image software should
result in a bootable & functional windows. Just did it recently switching from PATA
to SATA-RAID w/o a hiccup.
Seagate & Maxtor have a free version of Acronis TrueImage that work well while
lacking compression & some other premium TI features. All you need is a detectable
Seagate or Maxtor drive in the system for the software's check i.e. you hang any old
drive off the system just to satisfy the check, does not have to be the drives you're
imaging.
DHSinclair wrote:
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Afraid I just do not know how to "clone" yet. Mostly lack of experience
with the hdw and sw.
As this is an OS drive, I do have a detailed list of all sw installed.
Plan is to just 1)xfr the whole scsi system (card and drives) to another
(temp) pc frame, 2)install the pata drive and configure (format,
partition, upgrade, etc.), 3) copy/move the data files back from the
temp PC over my LAN after some period of stabilization. Old way I know,
but it has worked well in the past.
Best,
Duncan
