Malke said:
Suggestions:
1. Put both the IDE drives into USB external drive cases;
2. or attach internally to your computer if you have the connections on
your
motherboard;
3. or use SATA-to-IDE adapter(s) to the motherboard;
4. or use a specialized drive adapter(s) like this one:
http://www.newertech.com/products/usb2_adapt.php
If you are using such an old version of Norton Ghost that it won't support
USB, replace it with a modern imaging program that does. I use the
enterprise version of Acronis True Image Echo because I'm a computer tech,
but you can buy the home version of TI for as little as $35. Here are a
few
examples:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produ...rder=BESTMATCH&Description=acronis+true+image
You need the tools to accomplish the job.
Malke
Scott...
1. Obviously the "source" HDD you're dealing with - the one you label "an
old IDE hard drive" - is a 3 1/2" (desktop-type) HDD, right? Because if it
wasn't, i.e., if it was another 2 1/2" laptop/notebook-type HDD, then there
would be no need to utilize your desktop to realize your objective, right?
In the latter case you would simply use a USB-type external HDD enclosure
designed for 2 1/2" drives to install the new, larger 2 1/2" drive, connect
such to your laptop, and copy (clone or image) the contents of the present
drive to the new one.
2. As Malke indicates, you will obviously also need a program to copy the
complete contents of that 3 1/2" HDD to the new 2 1/2" HDD (assuming for one
reason or another you're dissatisfied with your Norton Ghost program). While
he mentions a disk-imaging type of program I would suggest you also consider
a disk-cloning program, specifically the Casper 5 program.
3. While I won't go into any details now as to why we prefer that program as
a comprehensive backup program, I will provide further details if you're at
all interested. There is a trial version of the Casper 5 program available
at...
http://www.fssdev.com
It's worth a try so I would encourage you to do so. But I have to add that
the 30-day trial version is somewhat "crippled" in that while it will clone
the entire contents of your old HDD to the new HDD, it will create the same
size partition(s) on the new ("destination") HDD equal to the one(s) on your
old ("source") HDD. You didn't indicate the disk size of the drives in
question, but as an example...if your source HDD was single-partitioned, say
80 GB, and the destination HDD had a *total* disk-capacity of say, 250 GB,
then the program would establish only a partition of 80 GB on the
destination drive. The remaining disk-space would be "unallocated" disk
space -obviously disk-space that you could later partition/format or merge
with the created partition. Naturally the licensed version does not have
this restriction.
In any event, the Casper 5 disk-cloning program (it does not have
disk-imaging capability) is a superior product (in my view) for the great
majority of PC users in maintaining a comprehensive backup program. Its
usefulness is particularly apparent when used with a high degree of
frequency so as to result in a user maintaining an up-to-date backup system.
4. Assuming the above suggestions are not, for one reason or another,
practical in your case and you have determined that it's necessary that you
utilize your new desktop PC to effect your objective...
You say "I do not have ide drive connection on my desktop pc and
insufficient drives to accomplish the task."
Are you indicating that your desktop's motherboard does not contain an IDE
channel? While more & more of the new motherboards now contain only a single
IDE channel it's still rather unusual that the motherboard will contain *no*
IDE channels. Is that really the case in your situation, i.e., there's not a
single IDE channel on your motherboard that you can utilize?
Obviously if there *was* an IDE channel on your motherboard you could simply
connect the IDE (PATA) HDD to that channel and use the disk-cloning or
disk-imaging program to effect the copying of the contents of that HDD to
the 2 1/2" HDD installed in a USB enclosure connected to your desktop PC.
5. While I'm not familiar with the *specific* model of the drive adapter
device Malke suggests, I am familiar with this type of device in general.
Frankly our experience has been quite negative after using a fair number of
different makes & models of these type of devices. To the point where we
rarely recommend them. We have encountered far too many instances where
these devices simply didn't work or worked erratically or the result was too
often corrupted/files on the destination drive. And we even encountered some
instances where it adversely affected the source HDD. On the other hand we
have seen reports from users quite satisfied with these devices. I would be
interested to learn whether Malke has personally used this specific model in
a fair number of instances.
Anna
