| nil spam wrote:
| >
| > I'm upgrading my laptop hard disk and will need to transfer data across
from
| > the old drive to the new. I'm looking to create an image of the existing
| > drive, copy this over to a desktop using an ethernet cable and restoring
| > back to the new drive over the network onto a new partition. What
software
| > would you recommend to do the job securely and without risk of data
| > corruption?
|
| An easy and fast way to do this is to buy an adaptor to allow the
temporary
| installation of the notebook drive into the desktop. You can copy the
data
| temporarily and remove the old lap-top drive, substitute the new one and
| copy the data and OS to it. Of course you need to partition and format
the
| new drive first. If you're using WinXP, you will need an imaging program,
| but with Win98, xxcopy will work just fine.
|
| You could copy only the data to a second partion on the new drive, return
| it to the lap-top and reinstall any OS. You might have to change any
| references to the data to the new location, but this would be simple to
do.
|
| Virg Wall
| --
| A foolish consistency is the
| hobgoblin of little minds,........
| Ralph Waldo Emerson
| (Microsoft programmer's manual.)
Call me lazy, but I know how to take the hardware route. But it'd involve
sourcing an adaptor, another IDE cable, opening up the desktop PC and trying
to find a spare power cable that isn't being used by anything else etc.. I
have the network already hooked up and configured and I'd like to look into
the software alternatives which is particularly what I'm after in this
instance. Something like Ghost perhaps? Although I've heard this can do more
harm than good?
