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Computer HD Question!
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psyaudionamics
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Posted : Feb 24, 2009 11:30:30
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First off HI!!!
my question is as follows... i want to upgrade internal HD in my computer currently 300 gig's
now here is the question i wanna get a terabyte HD if i was to copy all the content from my old hard drive into the new one... would everything work? in other words where D: drive is im gonna put the terabyte hd and then copy everything from the C: HD into it... then remove the C: hd and put the D: into what was once the HD C; slot would everything work fine...
i just would hate to install everything over again it takes for ever... thanks mates in advance!!!  CHEERS |
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Tryptagon
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Posted : Feb 24, 2009 11:38
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Get acronis disc imager,no it will not work ,and u will end up having only document files.
The acronis disc imager can do it for u and will duplicate the drive 100% |
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psyaudionamics
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Posted : Feb 24, 2009 12:00
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thanks tryptagon,,, what would be the exact steps once i get acronis disc imager for this kind of stuff if u be so kind 
thnx |
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bukboy
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Posted : Feb 24, 2009 13:26
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There is another reason. Your windows may detect a new HDD and not let you boot. (are you using windows XP?)
You may be forced to reinstall windows. Why not just use both drives? use the 300 as your system drive and your 1000 for backups and work. You will have more speed, because your system will be working off one drive and your applications from another. |
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"42"
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Posted : Feb 24, 2009 14:31
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If you use an advanced Image tool like Ghost/Acronis it should work fine.
But it is not an easy process...!
Imaging HD should be done carefully and with the right knowledge.
If you decide doing this on your own you can PM me and I'll try to guide you remotely...
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bukboy
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Posted : Feb 24, 2009 15:42
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I tried to ghost a windows image once. Wouldn't boot. blue screen on start up. |
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Axis Mundi
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Posted : Feb 24, 2009 15:53
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If you are using a DAW like Cubase you can select an option to save your opened project into a new folder, which you can put into a directory on your external. You can do that with Ableton too, I believe.
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makus
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Posted : Feb 24, 2009 16:41
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well, if i get it correct it could be done the following way:
suppose you have system on C; music projects, audio files and other documents on D; and you will connect your new terrabyte hdd on E.
You move all the data from D to E. Then you have 2 options: rename D to, say, F; and E - to D.
After that you will have C as system, big 1TB D with your projects and F free for, say, games =)
Or, i think you can unite C with F with Acronis Disk Director Suite; but do that only after you save all your necessary data somewhere.
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vegetal
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Posted : Feb 24, 2009 16:50
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On 2009-02-24 14:31, "42" wrote:
If you use an advanced Image tool like Ghost/Acronis it should work fine.
But it is not an easy process...!
Imaging HD should be done carefully and with the right knowledge.
If you decide doing this on your own you can PM me and I'll try to guide you remotely...
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Should work fine fo sure  Damn acronis managed to fuck up my systemdisk big time, tried to restore an incremented backup but acronis decided to freeze and after that i still haven´t been able get the disk working, i think it screwed with the MBR or something.
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makus
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Posted : Feb 24, 2009 17:19
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what did you do with acronis? interesting to know, because i used it several times. i resized the system partition, i resized the partition with audio work, and i deleted a partition which i freed up of data. it worked fine for me, thanks God, because i didnt have a chance to make a backup. I used Acronis DDS 10.5.6 I guess (the first version that handles vista).
on the other hand once i tried to moved a partition with partition magic and fucked up all data. r-studio helped me that time.
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Soundmagus
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Posted : Feb 24, 2009 19:35
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Ghost does it and its a peice of piss to do.
Install Ghost
Create Backup of disc
Store backup on external drive
Reeboot pc with Ghost recovery disc in drive
Select backup file
ok ghost to install
Job Done
Check out my site for Video tutorials and other tips & Tricks
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Dharma Lab
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Posted : Feb 24, 2009 23:17
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My experience is that Acronis is vastly superior to Ghost. I never recommend incremental or differential backups, because it only takes one corrupted backup to possibly put you in trouble. Any good backup plan includes multiple layers of redundancy...having multiple full backups is the way to go!
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Colin OOOD
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Posted : Feb 24, 2009 23:50
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diskonekt
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Posted : Feb 25, 2009 00:24
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One vote to acronis from me too. Wasn't using it till recently actually.
We had this case at work and needed to clone an old hd to a new one. the disk had a lot of encrypted files but it never occured to us that it could be a problem in the cloning process. Well, Norton Ghost managed to fuck our nerves up really bad. Slow as hell and failed 4 times to do the job, reaching about 75% and then presenting an error: not being able to read from destination drive. We lost a day trying and as a last resort we decided to try Acronis. It cloned the disk flawlessly in 1 hour and a half / no errors. It's pretty straightforward too, you can't go wrong using it.
Uninstalled ghost and we're never going back.
Cheers!
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vegetal
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Posted : Feb 25, 2009 08:49
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Thats the funny part, i just launched it and wanted to restore a incremental backup of my systempartition. it shut down win and stated its own OS to where it will restore the backup. Next thing i know nothing more happens for like 15 hours, only one option left..... reboot. Then i decide to install a fresh xp-partition so far no probs, but when i transfer from the POST-screen to start booting xp i just got the message telling me that no OS was installed so i guess the MBR-table was damaged or something else causing it to not read from the boot.ini file
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