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Whats best way to transfer existing HD info over to a new HD (operating system and all)?
Name: Fresh Date: April 4, 2000 at 12:06:10 Pacific
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I have a hard drive that is going bad and I am trying to replace it with a new HD. I have been using a program called Norton Ghost to transfer data in the past. But when I reboot the CPU and try to get into Ghost, the origional HD is not accessable, and sees the new HD as the C drive. Jumpers are set correctly because in Windows 98 everything is accessable, and the HD's are the same brand and everything was double checked for compatibility. If anyone has any ideas or other suggestions for a file transfer, I would GREATLY appreciate it! Thanks!!!
Name: pierre Date: April 4, 2000 at 12:11:55 Pacific
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Western Digital has a pretty slick utility that comes with their new hard drives that prompts you to transfer information from one hard drive to the other. I've tried it twice, one time it worked, one time it didn't.
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Response Number 2
Name: ramcast Date: April 4, 2000 at 12:19:28 Pacific
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Ghost by Symantec works really well. It will make an image of the drive you are trying to transfer. I have not had any problems with it.
Well, it sounds like Fresh IS having problems with it...
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Response Number 5
Name: Daniel Beaudin Date: April 4, 2000 at 12:29:07 Pacific
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Ghost, is the best. Very simple. You choose Partition to Partition in local mode.
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Response Number 6
Name: Todd Date: April 4, 2000 at 12:50:14 Pacific
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Like Al said, drive quest is a great program. I use it constantly at work.
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Response Number 7
Name: Steve Date: April 4, 2000 at 13:46:34 Pacific
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First...do you have backups of ALL your data? If not, make them...do it on a Zip or something similiar... Second, if you do have your backups, then I would partition, reformat and load all your programs fresh...start all over... You will wind up with a cleaner running system with less potential problems down the road...
As far as Ghost and Powerquest are concerned, both are very good programs, both should do the job...but I cannot indicate specificaly why you cannot transfer...
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