Copying hard drive question

[BCinSC]

Better to just use 100Mbit crossover cable or pull drive and attach to 2nd IDE in machine? About 5GB data. WinXP Home. I used to do direct connect and had noticed in Win2000 that the device manager gets really cluttered when you do, but I believe the speed difference is an order of magnitude.

 

[ForsakenMaster]

2nd ide would be my choice and if you are doing a total copy of the HDD
(OS and such) try norton ghost it has never failed to work for me yet.

 

[Bovinicus]

For 5GB of data the cable should be fine. It shouldn't take that long to do. Assuming a transfer rate of 5MB/s (Which more than takes into account the overhead associated with data transfer) it would only take 1000 seconds, which is a little under 17 minutes. If everything is set up properly, then it shouldn't even take that long.

 

[Havok423]

Originally posted by: BCinSC
Better to just use 100Mbit crossover cable or pull drive and attach to 2nd IDE in machine? About 5GB data. WinXP Home. I used to do direct connect and had noticed in Win2000 that the device manager gets really cluttered when you do, but I believe the speed difference is an order of magnitude.

If you are trying to make an exact copy on to a larger new drive, I'd use Drive Image 7 from (formerly) PowerQuest. Another user mentioned Ghost, but I think DI7 is a little better. Symantec must think so too since they just bought PowerQuest...

 

[BCinSC]

Just need the data from old machine to new, not a full image including OS.

Network transfer (max) at 100 Mbits, while IDE/PCI goes at 100 MBytes, right? 8x faster?