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Subject: Re: Cloning a 2.5" IDE/PATA Laptop Hard drive
Date: Fri, 10 Nov 2017 03:18:09 -0500
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james@nospam.com wrote:
> On Tue, 7 Nov 2017 12:46:05 +0000, "J. P. Gilliver (John)"
> <G6JPG-255@255soft.uk> wrote:
> 
>> Thanks for that. Incidentally, xpinfo doesn't work with OEM (or VLK).
>> []
>>> By the way, this is where you can get Ghost 2003:
>>>
>>> http://www.dslreports.com/r0/download/265545~688de4fa5cfd7a3653cce1c3f14
>>> 7b3d4/GHOST_BOOTx.zip
>> Thanks for that too. I've downloaded both.
>>>
> 
> It looks like you are saying that you downloaded the Ghost zipfile. Is
> that correct? 
> It is refusing to download for me. It starts downloading and fails after
> about 10 seconds, saying "source could not be read".
> 
> Maybe this has something to do with my slow dialup internet, but it dont
> even try. I have tried to DL this thing at least 10 times, used
> different browsers too. 
> Another browser said:
> "Does not appear to be a valid archive"
> 
> The file is 1.3mb. It will take a half hour on my dialup, but I can
> usually DL files of that size without problems.
> 
> This does look to be thge best way to clone these drives. I dont even
> want to attempt to do it with a CD, because I've been thru trying to
> configure CD drives and Hard drives on the same cable, and it naver
> worked. Not to mention I only have connectors for TWO IDEs and would
> need THREE. On top of that, I will do anything to avoid burning CDs.
> Thats generally another nightmare, especially if they need to be
> bootable. 
> 
> I'll have to drive to town and see if I can download it at a WIFI, but
> it sure seems like the file is borked, and I'm not willing to drive 10
> miles for nothing. 
> 
> 

Do you have a copy of "wget.exe" ?

    wget http://www.domain.com/file.zip

That puts "file.zip" in your current working directory
plus it give you a progress bar to watch the download.

*******

The one in here is fairly small. If I get the gnuwin32 one,
that has bigger files for some reason.

2,265,402 bytes (this is the WinXP windows update fetcher package)

https://web.archive.org/web/20140605101941/http://download.wsusoffline.net/wsus
offline921.zip

Inside the ZIP file, in wsusoffline\bin\ you will find
wget.exe 233984 bytes.

You can then try that on the annoying NGINX server
at dslreports.

    Paul
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