Best way to make use of my extra SATA pls?
08 March 2008, 10:39 AM
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Best way to make use of my extra SATA pls?
Have two SATA HDD's on my XP PC. One is a brand new 500Gb (due to previous one failing) and awaiting my decisions to partition it etc. Current is a rather full 200Gb C: with two other partitions.
Now I have had BSOD in the past and would love to be able to have a clone of my system drive boot partion that contains only OS on this new drive so as I can recover my system when this boot drive fails (as it will) one day.
I have Norton Ghost 10 to hand but am not too sure how these recovery points work, and if it does what I think I need?
It would also make sense to make this new faster bigger HDD the 'working' disk with the boot here by making it a clone of the current boot HDD (and associated partitions). The older HDD can be power managed to be a mostly off safety archive (pics & mus) and I can also re-format the old disk to be a dynamic disk (not basic) and stripe 'em should I need to video edit on this PC.
Decisions Decisions!
Any tips guys as I read the Norton book?
Thx
Now I have had BSOD in the past and would love to be able to have a clone of my system drive boot partion that contains only OS on this new drive so as I can recover my system when this boot drive fails (as it will) one day.
I have Norton Ghost 10 to hand but am not too sure how these recovery points work, and if it does what I think I need?
It would also make sense to make this new faster bigger HDD the 'working' disk with the boot here by making it a clone of the current boot HDD (and associated partitions). The older HDD can be power managed to be a mostly off safety archive (pics & mus) and I can also re-format the old disk to be a dynamic disk (not basic) and stripe 'em should I need to video edit on this PC.
Decisions Decisions!
Any tips guys as I read the Norton book?
Thx
08 March 2008, 12:03 PM
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Take a look at this
Hard Disk Manager Suite – complete system management
It looks quite good, ive got a copy just not had chance to try it yet though
Hard Disk Manager Suite – complete system management
It looks quite good, ive got a copy just not had chance to try it yet though
08 March 2008, 10:12 PM
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Take a look at this
Hard Disk Manager Suite – complete system management
It looks quite good, ive got a copy just not had chance to try it yet though
Hard Disk Manager Suite – complete system management
It looks quite good, ive got a copy just not had chance to try it yet though
08 March 2008, 10:23 PM
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08 March 2008, 10:33 PM
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I use it a lot for creating images.
The biggest downfall of it is that it can't restore an image to a smaller drive/partition than you created that image from. Not sure about drive to drive.
But if you had, say a 30gb OS partition on both of your SATA drives, there would be no problem
The biggest downfall of it is that it can't restore an image to a smaller drive/partition than you created that image from. Not sure about drive to drive.
But if you had, say a 30gb OS partition on both of your SATA drives, there would be no problem
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08 March 2008, 10:42 PM
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I use it a lot for creating images.
The biggest downfall of it is that it can't restore an image to a smaller drive/partition than you created that image from. Not sure about drive to drive.
But if you had, say a 30gb OS partition on both of your SATA drives, there would be no problem
The biggest downfall of it is that it can't restore an image to a smaller drive/partition than you created that image from. Not sure about drive to drive.
But if you had, say a 30gb OS partition on both of your SATA drives, there would be no problem
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It will copy *everything*
Now, I *think* that you can just select a boot drive from your BIOS and it will boot.
Otherwise, you can edit the boot.ini file on you 'C:' drive
This might help
Customize Multiboot Startup Options
Now, I *think* that you can just select a boot drive from your BIOS and it will boot.
Otherwise, you can edit the boot.ini file on you 'C:' drive
This might help
Customize Multiboot Startup Options
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