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hi
I have a toshiba laptop with 60gb seagate drive. the drive was damaged, i sent it to seagate company for replacement, in the meantime, I borrowed my friend's 160gb 2.5" drive, and installed OS, softwares, and used it for 2 months. i use about 30gb of disk.
Now, I got my 60gb back.
my question is how to clone the 160gb disk to my new 60gb disk. so I don't need to reinstall OS, software again.
Thanks
If the laptop has a burner and backup software or if you already own an external USB drive you may be able to make an image to that device and apply that image to the new drive after it is installed.
I would be a little concerned about the data integrity on the 160GB. Your laptop may not be 48bit LBA compliant. See the link below for information on 48 bit LBA compliance. That means the 160GB drive would have been recognised as 127GB or so. That in turn can result in data corruption. I'm not saying you have that problem but am going mainly by the original drive capacity.
If it were mine I would use a burner or flash drive to copy my personal data and then after verifying my data was readable, format the 160GB before removal.
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Just a thought here, but why pay $35.00 for Acronis, when if all you want to do is clone a Seagate drive, just use Seagates free cloning software. It is actually an Acronis True Image product, and is found here: http://www.seagate.com/www/en-us/su...
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That's a good question but if I've got the picture right......
he has a 160GB drive in a laptop with about 30GB files on.
He wants to move that data to a 60GB drive that he has in his hand...........
I don't see the next move?
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Might use G4U if you can mount one of the drives in another networked machine. Assumes you ran defrag and no data exists above the 60 gig mark.
There are other tools like Part Magic and such too.The MS way is to use ntbackup with system state. Put a basic xp on the new disk and apply restore to that new (old) disk.
I read it wrong and answer it wrong too. So get off my case you peanut.
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I could be mistaken, but I believe the Seagate software is set up to deal with the 160gb Drive. After all, they made the Drive and the user Software.
Only obstacle I see is; Do you have an external HDD Enclosure? Fairly cheap and a good investment for the future.
Not much sense in copying 30Gb to CD/DVD/Flash, when you can do it all at once then just swap HDD's.
Only disadvantage, you loose the advantages of a Clean OS install.
With an External HDD, you could install the 160GB Drive, do a clen install of XP + updates, and Major Software, then put the OLD HDD in the External enclosure and transfer anything you want back to the 160 Drive, then format the 60GB and return it to your friend.
I would recommend Partitioning the 160GB drive into several Partitions.
There is nothing to learn from someone who already agrees with you.
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An external HDD is a logical solution but the idea brings up a couple of dozen questions that need answering before going that route.
Many are addressed here:
http://ask.metafilter.com/36900/Pow...
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