cloning my drive

gmoney · Posted: Thu Jun 30, 2005 9:05 pm Post subject: cloning my drive

can any one give me a good tutorial for cloning my c" drive to another one... the one im running is relatively slow compared to the one i want to clone it to..

thnx guyz
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fussnfeathers · Lord of the Tweak Joined: 14 Dec 2004 Posts: 2763

Didn't we do this before?

Ok, best thing to do: Go to the website for the maker of the drive you want to clone TO, and get their software (Maxblast for Maxtor, DataLifeGuard for WD, I forget what it is for Seagate).

Install the drive you want to clone TO in the slave postion, reboot with the floppy for bootable CD you'll make from the software, follow the steps to clone your drive to the new "master" drive, wait for it to finish, then stick the new drive in the Master position.

I usually recommend the manufacturer's software over anything like Ghost or DriveImage, just because the manufacturer's software does a complete low-level format, partition, and re-format on the new drive. They also don't screw up as much, work with SATA drives without a hitch, and are FREE.
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gmoney · Posted: Thu Jun 30, 2005 11:55 pm Post subject:

ite i will try this rite now thnx
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HoseB · SirTweaksabit Joined: 03 Oct 2003 Posts: 260

What "fuss" said is correct, however let me add this....

If either of your "copy from" or "copy to" drive is Western Digital, you're in luck. The WD Data Lifeguard for Windows is the fastest and slickest.... while Seagate's is cumbersome and awkward.

Using WD's Data Lifeguard, you can set both of your drives to Cable Select if you have a cable select IDE cable and you'll never have to mess with HD jumpers again.

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Forgot to mention... if you use WD's Data Lifeguard for Windows, you don't have to use the boot floppy at all.

gmoney · Posted: Fri Jul 01, 2005 3:05 am Post subject:

daaaamit... thnx for telling me now!!!!

jeeze im using maxblast 3 rite now.. cuz i couldnt get the maxblast4 floppy to boot... and i started at 10pm and its 1am rite now and its only43% ...

jeezus i didnt think it would take that long just to copy 60 gigs... im lookin at like 6hours for this cloning ...

which in my book is major weak sauce
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dene · Posted: Fri Jul 01, 2005 5:37 am Post subject:

G, u might wanto look into norton ghost, from as much as i use it very reliable, give it a go

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gmoney · Posted: Fri Jul 01, 2005 6:28 am Post subject:

well 4.30 am ... 95% w00t... damn i wish i would known that maxblast is complete and utter s***

eh was a good time to watch all my episodes of athf
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HoseB · SirTweaksabit Joined: 03 Oct 2003 Posts: 260

If you have WD drive... Data Lifeguard clones at approximately 1G/minute on two of my machines. So, you cloning should take approximately 60 minutes.

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I've found that Maxblast 3 doesn't work for me any longer, either. However Maxblast 4 has worked for me from the floppy boot.... but it takes about 4-5X longer to copy than WD Data Lifeguard for Windows.

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One final note.....

WD Data Lifeguard for Windows is soooooo good, it's worth buying WD just to get access to the copy software.

OK, you just bought a new HD, and neither of yours is WD..... Buy another one! This time, WD... that way you can use the cloning software every time so long as either the "copy from" or "copy to" HD is the WD. (If you have important data, you need a backup routine with at least 3 media devices.... I rotate HDs about twice a month + as needed to keep up to date.... 4HDs for each computer.)

gmoney · Posted: Fri Jul 01, 2005 12:20 pm Post subject:

ite guyz... im really really g.d. pissed rite now...

g.d. software takes till 5am to g.d. complete.. rite... so 7 hours! ffs ... i go through set my maxtor drive up.... no boot... freezes when it goes in to install windows... so i set up my wd drive.. *the original one ** and boots fine.. then i go to explore the drive i cloned to...

windows says ... " drive is not formated would u like to format"

ite so i do that effin g.d. sonavabeotch 7hour process.. and the piece of sheisse doesnt even work...

ite so im really really really tired im really really realy upset wit this

is it for sure that the wd software will work... and im not sure if i still have my floppy so would i be able to download the stuff again?

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gmoney · Posted: Fri Jul 01, 2005 2:03 pm Post subject:

am i gonna have to format this thing.. is there no way to fix it/????

cuz i need the space asap for some video encoding
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HoseB · SirTweaksabit Joined: 03 Oct 2003 Posts: 260

You shoudl have received a CD with the WD drive. The cloning program is on it. Or, you can download it in an .exe file from WD's website. I've done both, and they work just fine.

gmoney · Posted: Fri Jul 01, 2005 4:26 pm Post subject:

alrite.. so im lookin at another how many hours of not being able to use my comp ??? again???

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gmoney · Posted: Sat Jul 02, 2005 12:08 am Post subject:

ite will try again

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fussnfeathers · Lord of the Tweak Joined: 14 Dec 2004 Posts: 2763

That's wierd that you couldn't get MaxBlast to boot.......did you try it from a bootable CD? Last time I used MaxBlast, it only took about 2 hours to clone almost 100gb of data to a new drive, worked without a hitch. I've used it quite a few times.

WD is a bit faster, though. While I do agree that CS usually works for the drive settings, I don't recommend doing it. Not all mobos "read" CS settings exactly right. In fact, certain brands/models recommend that you DON'T use the CS setting, as it can lead to problems in the BIOS. For PATA, I still suggest master/slave settings. SATA doesn't apply, of course.
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Silicon Skum · Posted: Sat Jul 02, 2005 12:24 pm Post subject:

You did use two seperate cables and hook one drive as master to the Pri IDE and the other drive as master on the sec IDE did'nt you? otherwise it would take a LONG time to copy over data if you used the same cable with both drives.

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gmoney · Posted: Sat Jul 02, 2005 5:23 pm Post subject:

holy crap thats a reason y its so slow.. i thought in fnf's post he said to set one to master and slave.. .so i assumed that they were on the same channel

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Yeah, that was my bad, I shoulda been clearer.
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sickofsoyo · Posted: Sun Sep 11, 2005 3:52 pm Post subject:

now I know this is an old post, but, If I used Maxblast 4 to copy everything from my Samsung to the Maxtor, Both SATA how would I have to arrange the cables, and would windows boot?
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