M6805 Hard Drive Swap!

[LIVAN]

Hi , like many, I am thinking of swapping out the slow 420rpm drive.

NOw my question is I have already installed XP pro and tuned everything to my liking. In the past, I would have used Norton Ghost on a floppy and ghosted C: but now my lappy doesn't have a floppy and I have heard Win XP pro does not work well with Ghost. What shoudl I do?

 

[Connoisseur]

reinstall xp. In my experience, Norton programs have had issues with the windows xp systems I have. Only antivirus runs smoothly. Systemworks frequently gives me errors (when defragging, disk cleaning etc.). I personal prefer an os reinstall just because it gives the best performance, is a fresh clean system (clean registry, links etc.) and is the most stable.

 

[LIVAN]

Ghost is a carbon copy of the system. If it works that is. Anyone else?

 

[orion7144]

You could put ghost onto a bootable cd....

 

[Connoisseur]

I understand what ghost is. I was merely stating that, in my experience, most norton products don't quite contribute to the stability of the system.

 

[ShellGuy]

To get the best copy my idea would be to use Acronis True Image make an image to another drive and then put the image back on your new Hdd. If you have anyquestions Email me Will_W_Goodman@yahoo.com.


Will

PS IMO works better than ghost does.

 

[alexruiz]

Originally posted by: orion7144
You could put ghost onto a bootable cd....

That is a good suggestion. I also suggest getting a USB floppy drive (what I did). I know the floppy is last century technology, but I am still amazed by how useful it has been (specially when I exchange files at work, with our "potent" PII 400 Mhz and Win98 Se machines....)

The machine cannot boot from a flash drive (I already tried) so a newer BIOS could fix it.


Alex

 

[rkuppu]

I recently made 2 partitions out of a single big partition (60MB) on a toshiba M35 using Ghost-2003 and with the help of information available in Barts Boot CD, Bootdisk.com and an external USB notebook harddrive in a generic USB harddisk enclosure.I ghosted the winxp home image to the external usb harddisk, used Ranish partition manager to delete and recreate 2 partitions, restored the ghosted image to the first partition.

 

[panhead49]

i to would use ghost on a CD ....but when your done, i want to know how the hard drive swap goes.....let us know what drive you get and how much it helps ....thanks.....

 

[LIVAN]

Will this work,

I get a USB 2.0 enclosure . I will ghost my existing C: into another partition on the same drive. I remove the existing drive and lace it into the USB enclosure . I install the new drive. Format and artition and install in skeleton copy of XP in it. ONce I load into xp, I will resotre teh image via the enclosure drive.

 

[alexruiz]

Originally posted by: LIVAN
Will this work,

I get a USB 2.0 enclosure . I will ghost my existing C: into another partition on the same drive. I remove the existing drive and lace it into the USB enclosure . I install the new drive. Format and artition and install in skeleton copy of XP in it. ONce I load into xp, I will resotre teh image via the enclosure drive.

It will work, but no need to perform the XP skeleton installation if you boot from floppy with Ghost.

 

[LIVAN]

I don't have a floppy.

 

[ShellGuy]

Livan man listen 2 me. Use the USB Hdd and Acronis true image image the drive to the enclosure replace old hdd with new one and reinstall image. now ur done.

Will

 

[LIVAN]

Acronis true image , is there a free trial?

 

[rkuppu]

If you do not have a floppy, make a bootable CD for DOS with USB support using the panasonic drivers and 'moto hairu' file. I had success with a notebook harddisk in a generic external enclosure.

 

[rkuppu]

If you do not have a floppy, make a bootable CD for DOS with USB support using the panasonic drivers and 'moto hairu' file. I had success with a notebook harddisk in a generic external enclosure.

 

[ShellGuy]

Hey Livan email me. Will_W_Goodman@yahoo.com

 

[LIVAN]

Shell,

I am running acronis now. It's doing the image right there as I am still running windows. Are you sure this works? What about files in use and stuff?

 

[ShellGuy]

Livan are you using the Demo??? Please email me before you do anything else please.

Will

 

[LIVAN]

Will, I did email you.

 

[artimusbill]

Livan are you using the Demo??? Please email me before you do anything else please.

lol, thats funny. I hope the upgrade/swap goes well. I may be doing the same upgrade soon.