help still needed having a real hard time cloning a hard disk

[BirdDad]

but it is not working it sees both drives fine in windows xp but when it reboots it goes through three things and says checking partition and then 5 minutes later says that the drive is copied(this is a 300GB drive) so it's ok to remove the old one however if I look at the drive in xp it hasen't copied anything
my trial to ghost has expired because I put off copying this drive for so long
what can I do?
both drives are SATA

 

[John]

Seagate, WD, Hitachi, etc. have free cloning tools on their website.

 

[BirdDad]

Seagate's site says to use Acronis that they wont supply Seagate disk wizard for now
specifically they link to Acronis Migrate Easy trial edition
I tried their disk image workstation and it does the same thing
I need help!
Thanks

 

[corkyg]

The Acronis cloning is best done this way:

1. Connect your drives - note which is which
2. Boot usung the TrueImage bootable CD it creates
3. Select "Clone Disk" when Acronis loads
4. Select Manual mode
5. Delete partitions on target drive
6. Preserve data on source drive.
7. If drives are different size, select "Proportionally"
8. Proceed.

Time will depend on how much data is on the source drive.

I can't speak for Migrate Easy, but the Clone function of TrueImage 10 makes this a piece of cake.

It is best to not do it from Windows - use bootable CD.

 

[BirdDad]

True image is doing the exact same thing

 

[corkyg]

It can't if you use the self-generated bootable CDR. There is no "rebooting" in that process at all - Windows never enters in to the picture. Sounds like you are trying to do it from within Windows. BTW - it will see SATA drives as SCSI, and that's OK.

 

[BirdDad]

when I boot from the cd and get all the way through to proceed it says that the trial version can only be used from within windows.

 

[John]

http://support.wdc.com/download/index.asp?cxml=n&pid=999&swid=53

If you plan on copying the contents of a boot drive, Western Digital recommends using the DOS version of Data Lifeguard Tools.

 

[alexruiz]

I think the key here is that as toehrs have mentioned it, DO NOT do it under windows. Use the start CD of the utility and get into DOS.

My take here (using ghost 2003):

1) If the drive is gonna be bootable, use the manufacturers quick utilty to set up partitons. Takes 3 minutes only.
2) Restart machine booting from the ghost disk
3) Select "disk" to "disk"
4) Wait a little. CPU and hard drive paly a big role in the transfer rates, but using the switch for direct IDE access it can go as high as 1.5 GB/minute. It works also in SATA drives (haven't tried though a mixed system of IDE + SATA)
5) Remove old drive, boot from new. Should be done.


Alex

 

[Pirotech]

Yep, the trial version of Acronis has all backup feature but can't restore or clone drives.
To copy the drive you need the full True Image version. It's the best backup and cloning software. You may try cheaper version called Migrate Easy that worked as a copying program only.

 

[John]

Originally posted by: alexruiz
I think the key here is that as toehrs have mentioned it, DO NOT do it under windows. Use the start CD of the utility and get into DOS.

My take here (using ghost 2003):

1) If the drive is gonna be bootable, use the manufacturers quick utilty to set up partitons. Takes 3 minutes only.
2) Restart machine booting from the ghost disk
3) Select "disk" to "disk"
4) Wait a little. CPU and hard drive paly a big role in the transfer rates, but using the switch for direct IDE access it can go as high as 1.5 GB/minute. It works also in SATA drives (haven't tried though a mixed system of IDE + SATA)
5) Remove old drive, boot from new. Should be done.


Alex

I also use bootable Ghost 2003 floppy a majority of the time. However even if there is data on the destination drive Ghost will delete it before it copies the data from the source. Should it fail to clone (which is rare) I'll use another computer with both HDD's connected as slave, then I fire up Acronis True Image in Windows. It works like a champ.