Swapping out hard-drive....I would like some..........

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mental support. It has been along time since I had to do this.
I am using Copy Commander to do this. Can the master and the slave both be
hard drives on the same IDE connection.?
Has anyone used CC to swap out a HD? And did it work as smooth as they
claim? After it is finished.....whether or not they are on the same
IDE..........I am going to use the old hard drive as second
H/D........swapping dip connectors around to fit the position
Thanx for any input
JB
 
mental support. It has been along time since I had to do this.
I am using Copy Commander to do this. Can the master and the slave both be
hard drives on the same IDE connection.?
Has anyone used CC to swap out a HD? And did it work as smooth as they
claim? After it is finished.....whether or not they are on the same
IDE..........I am going to use the old hard drive as second
H/D........swapping dip connectors around to fit the position
Thanx for any input
JB
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Don't know anything about "copy commander" but there is no technical
reason why the two drives can't be master and slave on same channel,
it would be an arbitrary and very poor decision on their part if they
didn't allow this configuration. It will be "slightly" slower but if
there's any compression involved then that difference may dwindle to
practically nothing.

If all this program is supposed to do is "duplicate" the drive, it
should work any way you want to do it, though you may need change the
BIOS settings or Windows "boot.ini" file (for Win2K/XP) if the new
drive isn't going to be used later in the same logical position (then
previously) occupied by the old drive... in other words, after doing
the duplication, it may be easiest to just put the new drive where the
old drive is/was, presumably the master device on the primary channel.


Dave
 
I am using Copy Commander to do this. Can the master and the slave both be
hard drives on the same IDE connection.?
Has anyone used CC to swap out a HD? And did it work as smooth as they
claim? After it is finished.....whether or not they are on the same
IDE..........I am going to use the old hard drive as second
H/D........swapping dip connectors around to fit the position
Thanx for any input
JB
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I have not used CC but I do use the free Maxtor utility to copy my hard
drive. As the drive used as a master has the same jumper if it is the
master or single dirve, I have a removable tray and set up the second drive
as the slave. Insert the tray and reboot the computer with the floppy drive
( Maxtor copy program) and tell it which drive to copy to which one. It
will copy either way. The drives are on the same ribbon cable.
 
daytona said:
mental support. It has been along time since I had to do this.
I am using Copy Commander to do this. Can the master and the slave both be
hard drives on the same IDE connection.?
Has anyone used CC to swap out a HD? And did it work as smooth as they
claim? After it is finished.....whether or not they are on the same
IDE..........I am going to use the old hard drive as second
H/D........swapping dip connectors around to fit the position
Thanx for any input
JB
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You might want to try a DOS utility called xclone. I've used it often but
not yet with anything other than a Win98/95 installed drive. Xclone from
a DOS window (within windows) to retain long file names. It won't clone
the swap file which will be auto-created when you boot the 'new' drive.
 
I appreciate all the answers and input.
CC will boot to the CD they have or you can make a floppy you can boot to. I
have tried booting to the CD as a trail run.And it does have EZ to follow
instructions once it boots up (through the CD) which seem to be the easiest,
because the BIOS is already setup to boot CD, Floppy and IDE device..in that
order
Then I will give it a try today.............one thought is.........it can't
screw up my main or master drive anymore than what it is already, and will
not loose any data on the master. Just a quick thought that the final
trasfer of all data is cloned, so there won't be alot of tweaking and more
tweaking of the newer drive.
Then I will switch jumpers and boot to the new drive and then clean off the
old drive and use that as a junk drive data keeper. The now master has about
14 bad clusters
 
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