Subj : Re: Cloning a 2.5" IDE/PATA Laptop Hard drive To : All From : james@nospam.com Date : Thu Jan 31 2019 19:16:21 Path: eternal-september.org!reader02.eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.o rg!aioe.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: james@nospam.com Newsgroups: microsoft.public.windowsxp.general Subject: Re: Cloning a 2.5" IDE/PATA Laptop Hard drive Date: Mon, 13 Nov 2017 00:49:42 -0600 Organization: Aioe.org NNTP Server Lines: 32 Message-ID: References: <9gka0d55a85fgg6d62v76qacjftdvtei72@4ax.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: TKghX/mglWkVW1qxlGBsyg.user.gioia.aioe.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: abuse@aioe.org X-Newsreader: Forte Agent 2.0/32.652 X-Notice: Filtered by postfilter v. 0.8.2 Xref: feeder.eternal-september.org microsoft.public.windowsxp.general:134502 On Sun, 12 Nov 2017 20:22:04 +0000, "J. P. Gilliver (John)" wrote: >Ah, when you said "I need both those connectors ..." I thought you meant >on the board. I now see you mean on the (single) cable. > >Yes, I can get your inclination to use a floppy - and if that works, >fine. I think you can put Macrium or Acronis on bootable USB sticks, but >that motherboard probably won't boot from USB. (You can also get SATA >CD/DVD drives - in fact, I think they're commonest these days.) Or >temporarily connect both EIDE hard drives to another computer, and use >that to do the cloning. > >Hang on though: You say "There is only one IDE connector on the >motherbd. One of them goes to the CD drive." One of them? You have the >CD drive and the HD connected to the motherboard - are they both on the >same cable, going to one connector on the mobo? If they're each >connected to a separate connector on the mobo, you can connect up to >four EIDE objects - you just need cables with three connectors on them. >(One for the mobo, two for the drives.) >-- I thought I wasclear when I said THERE IS ONLY ONE IDE CONNECTOR ON THE MOTHERBOARD. That means I can use two devices. Yes, this computer will boot from a USB stick. I have a few sticks with older versions of Linux that I occasionally boot up. BUt I'll stick with Norton Ghost and a floppy. Easiest solution, and Acronis is said to be very complicated. I prefer simple!!! --- Platinum Xpress/Win/WINServer v3.1 * Origin: Prison Board BBS Mesquite Tx //telnet.RDFIG.NET www. (1:124/5013) .