Subj : Re: Cloning a 2.5" IDE/PATA Laptop Hard drive To : All From : Some@Guy.C0M Date : Thu Jan 31 2019 19:16:21 Path: eternal-september.org!reader02.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org !feeder.eternal-september.org!news.mixmin.net!news.neodome.net!.POSTED!not-for- mail From: Some Guy Newsgroups: microsoft.public.windowsxp.general Subject: Re: Cloning a 2.5" IDE/PATA Laptop Hard drive Date: Mon, 06 Nov 2017 23:03:40 -0500 Organization: Mixmin Message-ID: References: <2e49F9HceGAaFw0R@soft255.demon.co.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Injection-Date: Tue, 7 Nov 2017 04:02:02 +0000 (UTC) Injection-Info: neodome.net; posting-account="n1fJZDWePPUlxloaAgvYFyLlFcQ58+saKPSr3yfhXI+S2EYvwiT6M7TXrA/c22 0WqVaT/+n/bKVL I/zK0ZDYE+nQxQ+RwiSk9P0Gon7nHNniPAXG088URd3GF4lR8lIDwg11xrtRo1yMEpCNz/Yde5ty iD5JizbyvWDQ/Sd+0YZpECLz0u8KYZ8HbZERXvhtwRWfO04qM9rNGdtQvBMUjqIp485R3u9svgkP BXlRGG9UAg7zcNMWYAri/40wQ8zVtrsMHLs0RejAtUNdlZ3EPlip/prTO9E+QOBZJYCOZnoYMhf7 mXrQn+0fsvCftfVy0u+eTJ1CHb48sf7vFGX1fg=="; posting-host="Y+NPM60Xj9GBqcq72DQo/Mwms9zfqKzW/6jru57+6QnS1ulcHW1ZlDuu653xx8FEu 3Z0cghb/01z qJWc5zM0uZVCPVVrtrP1bqbe9WkTVyD6PyZ8/64cXPIISpn+8s0kNZMFbyvaZlGkEPZOkSeil5Fa w1nO0fAjtyTa25gWlf8T71HlyUFzhTb437aLZDPx/pj5EzbBdJboX2BecQf4YO0gd+syVU1dxYab UkBAtFw6RIjFRkwcdr1yVHI3cfDoGr5HJOsEt7vAYh5JxEkz3kf4dmLlAEfPoKbaDNKiWgVJxAcH lU4rKb14OZDOBmmuBIlJSSlbYKgBlqKcbJmtqg=="; logging-data="28073"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@neodome.net" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.7.2) Gecko/20040804 Netscape/7.2 (ax) In-Reply-To: X-Accept-Language: en-us, en Xref: news.eternal-september.org microsoft.public.windowsxp.general:134453 J. P. Gilliver (John) wrote: >> Go get yourself a copy of Norton Ghost 2003. > > Or get a copy of Macrium or Acronis, If the computer has a working floppy drive, and you can manage to create a working copy of Ghost on it, then there is nothing easier than booting a system from floppy vs messing around with CD drives and bios settings, as well as trying to figure out how to connect 3 IDE devices (2 drives and 1 CD drive) and getting everything to work. And in my experience, the other CD-based programs can frequently not generate a bootable clone. I've cloned over 100 drives from a handful of different XP-SP2 and SP3 master drives using Ghost. If you want to use a CD-based drive copy program, get your hands on a copy of Hiren's BootCD and putz around with the various software on it. Potential problems with going the Ghost route is getting a working combination of floppy drive and floppy disk. Over time both seem to go bad, bad sectors, alignment problems, dust, etc. >> Copy will happen at anywhere from 800 mb/sec to maybe double that, >> depending on how new / fast the motherboard is. Correction - 800 mb/minute. Two IDE drives on a Pentium-4 PC. When cloning sata-to-sata on a Core2 motherboard I can typically get 3500 mb/minute. >> There'a a program called xpinfo.exe that will tell you > > Any idea where to get that? I just checked here: http://www.licenturion.com/xp/xpinfo-exe.zip This "licenturion" looks familiar to me. By the way, this is where you can get Ghost 2003: http://www.dslreports.com/r0/download/265545~688de4fa5cfd7a3653cce1c3f147b3d4/G HOST_BOOTx.zip > Don't the votes regenerate after a period (120 days or some such), to > allow people to upgrade/repair their PC? Yes, a system that hasn't tried to re-validate itself in the past 120 days should be in the clear to do it again, but I think the risk is too high if you can avoid it. The risk that your product key has, for what-ever reason, been added to Micro$haft's black-list of keys. --- Platinum Xpress/Win/WINServer v3.1 * Origin: Prison Board BBS Mesquite Tx //telnet.RDFIG.NET www. (1:124/5013) .