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My hd is failing just received a new one in the mail from dell today. What is
the best way to clone my new hd I don't want to spend hours installing all of
the programs. Also is there any preparation that I need to do to the new hd?

Thnak you
 
There's not much to do.. No preparation needed.

Get a trial version of BootItNG, http://www.bootitng.com/bootitng.html
Unzip somewher, run bootitng and create floppy/CD
Power off
Connect new drive as slave to old drive (jumpers!!)
Boot from floppy (or CD, if you made that)
DON'T install to HD, just go on
clone disk ( I don't remember how, but it was easy..)
disconnect HDs, reconnect new disk as master
Boot

Hopefully all checks out...





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Thomas, so there is no need to buy a software like are acronis? also do I
have to buy jumpers or they already inside of my cpmputer.
Thanks
 
You don't HAVE to buy for example Acronix TrueImage, Symantec Ghost or the
like, even though it might come in handy when you want to "backup" (image)
your disk for safety.(need second disk (internal/external) for that).
BootItNG works well, I used the downloadable version when I upgraded my
disks last spring...

There usually is jumpers on the disks, if not, they don't cost many cents...
Just check the diagram on the disk how they should be set, ie. master and
slave (sometimes also master with or w/o slave) (sometimes only etched onto
the bare metal, so hard to see)


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You can also check some of the drive manufacturers
support pages. I know Western Digital
<www.wdc.com support downloads >has a little routine
(free) called Data Lifeguard Tools (or something like that)
which does exactly what Thomas was describing. I'm fairly
certian that Seagate and others have something similar.
After all, when you buy one of their drives, they want your
conversion to go as smoothly as possible. The Seagate
version is called "Disc Wizard" under support software at
the Seagate site.

I also have the impression that you haven't opened up a lot
of computers (if you have, ignore the following). You might
find that your old hard drive is a master on channel IDE #1
with an optical drive as the slave. If so, you can simply hook
your replacement hard drive up to IDE #2 as a master for
the system transfer. Of course you would need another
ribbon cable to do this. This is also assuming that you are
using IDE or PATA drives and not a SATA drive.

This is also assuming you still have a bootable system.

Mark H
 
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