Well,
At 17:24 06/23/2008 -0700, you wrote:
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.
thought so...(maybe dot-iso related!)....But, I am still a long way from
proving this one. Yes, I am a Seagate "fan-boy." Perhaps this is
unfortunate. I can live with this, however. The bad news is that most or
your 1st para went right over my head! Not your problem. It is
mine.................... :)
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.
This may be a way to go; for the "data" drive. I am still focused on the
main machine rebuild. Since I do not have the experience yet to do
binary-magic yet, I will do this the way we did things back in 1998.
Worked then; should work now............Maybe. If not, it is all backed up
anyway.
There are times when I feel so lame. Now is one of those times........... :)
Best,
Duncan
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
