Lo,
At 01:53 11/12/2011, you wrote:
On Sat, Dec 10, 2011 at 4:21 PM, Martin N
<<mailto:[email protected]>[email protected]> wrote:
I understand what you are saying and a new hard drive can be seen as
an oputunity
for a clean start to avoid windows rot.
However this laptop was new to me in the last couple of months so
not even Microsoft
can self destruct an OS that badly in such a short period of time.
Yeah, I can sympathize with the guys who want to take this as an
opportunity to wipe the system clean, but it's really a completely
separate question. The answer to your original question is that the
second HDD adapter works *exactly* like adding a second drive to a
desktop system, i.e. it's just another internal drive. Any drive
cloning software ought to work fine - I've used a bunch of them.
BIG RED WARNING: CAN I MAKE THIS BLINK?
With some versions of Windows, you need to make absolutely sure that
you DO NOT BOOT THE SYSTEM AFTER CLONING if you have both drives installed.
I am using XP Pro.
That would be a "copy disk" imaging though?
I plan on making a large file with the whole disk on ie 2oses and
recovery partition including MBR.
so i expect that would by pass that problem.
Maybe this is fixed in Windows 7, but it used to be a horrible
problem that would trash the registry and all kinds of stuff.
Other than that possible issue, the second HDD adapter is a great
ThinkPad accessory and will let you do just what you want.
Ok thanks I hope to use it post imaging to put the swap and temp on
to speed windows up
a little like i do on my desktop.
It will be interesting to see how it affects battery life (until the
HD fails to cope with errors in firmware)
Martin N
Running MorphOS v2.6 (Nov 2010) on Mac Mini, Moderator of
MiniDisc,amithlonopen,bwfc Yahoogroups
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