Cloning SATA to IDE

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I have a Dell Dimesion 8400 here with a 160Gb SATA hard drive. The
customer is having severe problems with Pinnacle Studio 10 (a disaster
of its own) and we're considering doing a full system restore and
reinstalling it. However he has added some hardware that I'm not sure we
can find the drivers for.
I don't have any SATA drives sitting around. What I'd like to do is clone
his SATA drive to an IDE drive, so that if things don't go well, I can
clone it back. People are recommending Acronis True Image. I went to
their site and there are too many choices. There's Home, Workstation,
Server, Enterprise Server.
All I want is a bootable CD that will let me do the clone. There's no
floppy drive on it, but I could always hang one on if I had to.
Any recommendations? If Acronis is a good choice, then what version do I
need?
 
Lil' Abner said:
I have a Dell Dimesion 8400 here with a 160Gb SATA hard drive. The
customer is having severe problems with Pinnacle Studio 10 (a disaster
of its own) and we're considering doing a full system restore and
reinstalling it. However he has added some hardware that I'm not sure we
can find the drivers for.
I don't have any SATA drives sitting around. What I'd like to do is clone
his SATA drive to an IDE drive, so that if things don't go well, I can
clone it back. People are recommending Acronis True Image. I went to
their site and there are too many choices. There's Home, Workstation,
Server, Enterprise Server.
All I want is a bootable CD that will let me do the clone. There's no
floppy drive on it, but I could always hang one on if I had to.
Any recommendations? If Acronis is a good choice, then what version do I
need?
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Acronis True Image 9 (home) will do all you need.
 
Lil' Abner said:
What I'd like to do is clone his SATA drive to an IDE drive,
so that if things don't go well, I can clone it back. People
are recommending Acronis True Image. I went to their sit
and there are too many choices. There's Home, Workstation,
Server, Enterprise Server. All I want is a bootable CD that
will let me do the clone. There's no floppy drive on it, but I
could always hang one on if I had to. Any recommendations?
If Acronis is a good choice, then what version do I need?
Click to expand...


Use Casper XP. It's a utility dedicated to cloning, and it was
written for the NT/2K/XP family of Windows. You can download
a 30-day free trial copy from www.FSSdev.com/products/casperxp/ .
It doesn't require Microsoft .NET Framework to be installed as
Ghost does, and it can clone individual partitions to HDs that
already contain other partitions - which True Image can't do.
Casper XP runs under Windows throughout the operation
without needing a restart before or after.

As with all clones in the NT/2K/XP family, disconnect the
original HD before starting up the clone for the 1st time.
(Thereafter, the clone may be started with its "parent" OS
visible to it without a problem. It's just that 1st startup that's
crucial.)

*TimDaniels*
 
Acronis True Image 9 (home) will do all you need.
Click to expand...

Thanks. It worked perfect.
I have Apricorn's EZ Clone which is a part of their EZ-Gig application.
It's really good but it wouldn't recognize the SATA drive.
So I splurged and bought Acronis at your suggestion. And it turns out to
have the same exact GUI. So one of those companies must be owned by the
other, or something like that... :-)
It works... that's all I care.
 
Use Casper XP. It's a utility dedicated to cloning, and it was
written for the NT/2K/XP family of Windows. You can download
a 30-day free trial copy from www.FSSdev.com/products/casperxp/ .
It doesn't require Microsoft .NET Framework to be installed as
Ghost does, and it can clone individual partitions to HDs that
already contain other partitions - which True Image can't do.
Casper XP runs under Windows throughout the operation
without needing a restart before or after.

As with all clones in the NT/2K/XP family, disconnect the
original HD before starting up the clone for the 1st time.
(Thereafter, the clone may be started with its "parent" OS
visible to it without a problem. It's just that 1st startup that's
crucial.)
Click to expand...

Thanks for the suggestion. I already did the Acronis thing now, but I'll
make note of tis one for further reference.
 
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