Subj : Re: Cloning a 2.5" IDE/PATA Laptop Hard drive To : All From : G6JPG-255@255soft.uk Date : Thu Jan 31 2019 19:16:21 Path: eternal-september.org!reader02.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org !.POSTED!not-for-mail From: "J. P. Gilliver (John)" Newsgroups: microsoft.public.windowsxp.general Subject: Re: Cloning a 2.5" IDE/PATA Laptop Hard drive Date: Tue, 7 Nov 2017 03:18:41 +0000 Organization: 255 software Lines: 61 Message-ID: References: <2e49F9HceGAaFw0R@soft255.demon.co.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain;charset=us-ascii;format=flowed Injection-Info: reader02.eternal-september.org; posting-host="c6bc90ad0f0efc64e5e35f17aa12cb2d"; logging-data="23020"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1/lcNFGLDtYiIbad/L/3Tfv" User-Agent: Turnpike/6.07-M () Cancel-Lock: sha1:NGAwQGqZggQwqPhY8yGt87nsiz4= Xref: news.eternal-september.org microsoft.public.windowsxp.general:134448 In message , james@nospam.com writes: [] >Thanks for all the replies. >I bought on ebay, two 40 pin (3.5" drive) to 44pin (2.5" laptop drive) >connectors. > >Here is the plan, I hope it will work. > >I have a desktop puter with XP booting from a SATA drive. There is a IDE >connector on the motherboard. The plan is to connect both the old 40gb >drive and the new 160gb drive to that IDE connector, using those You _may_ need to get _power_ to the little drives (unless those adaptors include a plug for drive power). >adaptors. I hope it boots from the SATA drive, not the OS on that 40gb >drive. (I dont know if there is a way to control that). If it works to There may be something in your BIOS settings. >that point, I will simply run Partition Magic from the boot drive, and >clone that 40gb to the 160gb drive. > >Ques: If I clone that whole 40gb drive, will I get a 40gb partition on >the new drive? Actually, that would be fine. I will keep the 40gb >partition as the boot one, and the remaining 120gb will be for >downloading and storing videos and music. Sounds a good policy. Most of us (with some exceptions) prefer to keep data (pictures, music, videos, documents ... basically anything a program _produces_ as opposed to the various parts of the software itself) on a separate, usually D:, partition. > >Before cloning, I may dump my current music and videos to a flash drive, >so there is less to clone. THe main thing that needs to be cloned is the >OS and the programs. Depends on your (and Partition Magic's) interpretation of the word "clone". Some interpretations assume clone to mean a complete copy of the drive, including the unused parts. If PM can only copy the used parts, it _will_ be quicker. (Though the movement you propose to a flash drive - and back - will be slow, assuming your flash drive - and interfaces to it - are USB2 at best; it'd be a lot quicker via internal disc transfer, I _think_. [You can always move the stuff from C: to the new D: partition afterwards.] > >I can move that file storage back from the flash drive later. > >One other thing, will XP need to be re verified with MS due to the new >hard drive? > Well, mine didn't. Is it an XP that came preinstalled, or one you installed yourself? (Though I don't _think_ that affects the answer to that question.) -- J. P. Gilliver. UMRA: 1960/<1985 MB++G()AL-IS-Ch++(p)Ar@T+H+Sh0!:`)DNAf "We're plumbing shallows we didn't know existed here" - Jeremy Paxman (as quizmaster of "University Challenge"), 1998 (when losing team suddenly put on a spurt by showing knowledge of things like the Eurovision Song Contest ...) --- Platinum Xpress/Win/WINServer v3.1 * Origin: Prison Board BBS Mesquite Tx //telnet.RDFIG.NET www. (1:124/5013) .