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Hard Drive swap question

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Reel

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The drive I have been using as my primary is on its way to failure (I've heard the click of death and gotten SMART errors.. no question on this). I called for an RMA and I'm wondering what is best way to preserve the data on it. Am I better off turning the computer off until the new drive comes or will that have no bearing? Also, what is the best way to dump all data from one identical drive to the other for when I get my new drive (being optimistic that the failing one holds out)?
 
You can dl an install program from the hd mfgs' site that will copy the data from your hd to the new hd. Go to their site and read their support/faq section and you'll find it. My suggestion is to do it on another computer and don't use yours until you install the new hd. Once the old one dies, its dead.

HTH.......................
 
Norton Ghost will do the trick. Or, depending on the manufacturer, there might be an imaging utility on a floppy. As for leaving the PC off till the new drive arrives. I would. Ape Out.
 
You may only have a few runs with the drive left - so you need to clone it very soon if not sooner. You can use Norton Ghost, or if you don't have it, PowerQuest's DriveCopy 4.0 to make an exact duplicate of your drive - OS and data. DC is cheaper and easier to use than Ghost because it can all be done with a set of floppy disks made by the program. PQ's DriveImage will also work, but the "imaging" programs cost twice as much as the straight forward copying programs.
 
Originally posted by: Buk
You can dl an install program from the hd mfgs' site that will copy the data from your hd to the new hd. Go to their site and read their support/faq section and you'll find it. My suggestion is to do it on another computer and don't use yours until you install the new hd. Once the old one dies, its dead.

HTH.......................
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Thanks all for the advice. You were right. Maxtor included a program on the CD called MaxBlast (or some other silly variant) that I had no idea of the purpose until you mentioned that and I investigated further. It seems it is a bootable CD so as long as the hard drive does not fail on its own, I can boot off the CD before the hard drive gets loaded and hope that it will eek out that one last push to get the data transferred.
 
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