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 03:29:54 +0000 Organization: 255 software Lines: 91 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="27683"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX194a+iGzbfHxQq+NUANYfTP" User-Agent: Turnpike/6.07-M () Cancel-Lock: sha1:cmYTwnUtirKW/qHzDaB2VGLk17o= Xref: news.eternal-september.org microsoft.public.windowsxp.general:134450 In message , Some Guy writes: >james@nospam.com, while using improper usenet message composition style >by unnecessarily full-quoting an entire thread, wrote: > >> I have a desktop computer > >Good. > >Go get yourself a copy of Norton Ghost 2003. There should be a floppy >image of it floating around the internet somewhere. Burn the image to >a floppy. (maybe burn isin't the right term, but you get the idea). ("Write" will do.) Or get a copy of Macrium or Acronis, and make the boot CD from that. Or, maybe, the Partition Magic you already have might be sufficient, if it does cloning/imaging, which you've implied it will. > >Set your motherboard to boot from floppy. Put the floppy in the drive. Or CD as appropriate. (If you're going to try with PM, running from the machine's existing XP HD, you'll need to make sure it boots from that, not the IDE discs you're proposing to connect. I'm not sure how to do that, or even if you can, though I'd hope you can. If you can, I imagine it'll be a BIOS setting.) > >If you have a ps/2 mouse, plug it into the motherboard. If you don't, >then that might be a problem. If your motherboard has IDE ports (which >you say it does) then it should have ps/2 mouse port. I _think_ Macrium and Acronis will work with a USB mouse (Macrium certainly works with my trackpad). > >Next, unplug all existing drives in the system from the motherboard. >You don't want them connected to the motherboard during cloning. Good advice, though if you're going to use the PM you've already got, you probably can't do that. > >Now, you have the drive you want to clone (a 40 gb ide) and the drive >you want as the destination of the clone (160 gb). > >Connect both of those drives to the motherboard. Doesn't matter how or >to which IDE port. Same would apply if booting from the Macrium or Acronis CD. > >Next, boot the system from the floppy. Or CD. > >Ghost will start. Ask you a few questions - say no to forensic >identification. > >Choose copy - disk to disk > >Choose the source drive. It will be the 40 gb drive. > >Choose the destination drive. It will be the 160 gb drive. Macrium or Acronis will be similar. > >It will show you the layout of the destination drive - the volume sizes >will be increased because the destination drive is larger. > >Tell it to start the copy. Yes, you know that everything on the >destination drive will be wiped out. > >Copy will happen at anywhere from 800 mb/sec to maybe double that, >depending on how new / fast the motherboard is. > >When it's done, close Ghost and turn off the computer, disconnect your >drives, install the 160 gb drive in the laptop and see if it boots. > >Ghost normally duplicates most aspects of the source drive, like volume >serial number (VSN). XP will do a check of hardware at boot and you >will lose a vote for having a different drive-size but will not lose >the VSN vote. There'a a program called xpinfo.exe that will tell you Any idea where to get that? >how many votes your system currently has. You need 5 for XP to remain >validated. You get 3 just from the MAC address, 1 for amount of ram, 1 >for video card, 2 or 3 for the hard drive (size, VSN, maybe something >else). If you go below 5 votes, XP will force you to reconnect with >the Micro$haft mothership and re-validate your XP installation. Don't the votes regenerate after a period (120 days or some such), to allow people to upgrade/repair their PC? -- 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) .