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Need some suggestions
Name: Tom Date: March 19, 2001 at 07:32:47 Pacific
Comment:
I need to replace my hard drive. Instead of reinstalling everything on the new drive, I would like to just hook them together and transfer everything. I need a suggestion for software to do this with and instructions on how to do it.
Hey, if you buy a new western digital hdd it should come with an install disk wich has software on it to copy the entire old hdd to the new one. It's easy to use too.
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Response Number 4
Name: Winslow Date: March 19, 2001 at 08:29:51 Pacific
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I got drive copy by power quest and it couldn't finish copying my old hard drive. It kept saying not enough memory. I have 256 megs of ram! what a piece of crap. I think it is no good for large hard drives. I used it successfully on 5 gig drives, but it was useless with 40gigs.
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Response Number 5
Name: joe Date: March 19, 2001 at 08:48:51 Pacific
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Winslow,
If PQ Drive Copy runs in DOS as PQ Drive Image then it is your conventional memory that is lacking, not your PowerQuest product.
Increase your conventional memory.
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Response Number 6
Name: Date: March 19, 2001 at 10:45:47 Pacific
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If you don't get a copy program with the drive and you are a cheapskate (like me).... You can use xcopy32 under windows to copy everything over. You will have to partition and format the drive first (of course). Make sure that you copy all hidden, system files, etc, using the options. Then after the copy is done and you swap drives you will need to boot from a floppy and set the partition on the new drive as 'active'. Then you should be able to boot it up.
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Response Number 7
Name: jaime Date: March 19, 2001 at 16:50:08 Pacific
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Maxtor drives come with a binary copy program called 'maxblast' which copies everything - also available on their webst. Worked for me! I have an HP Pavilion, and when I went to load the OS on my new drive, I found the OS disk that came with my PC wouldn't work, so the diskcopy was good!
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