shadower555
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hi. i am thinking of getting a seagate momentus 7200.4 250gb or 500gb to replace my hitachi 160 gb 5400rpm. i was thinking on how to transfer my vista hp over to the seagate. nid help here.
Never used that one, looks great.
I've been using Ghost with either connecting the drive if desktop or using something like this got mine from fleabay for a lot less though.
What you give link to is great, this comes with the software you say? If so, I'm getting one.
Thanks for sharing
Mine, I never leave shop without it but it does not do optical and has no software, the nice thing about it is that for PATA 2.5" drives, it requires no power making it a good tool to carry all my tools on a small drive with me.You're welcome. It was actually someone on another forum who led me to this. It is very well packaged and the software does come with it.
I had a friend who was having trouble with his Hitachi drive that was failing and tried it with a WD but he had trouble and went through WD own software to be able to do a full transfer so I don't know if it is a WD thing or it was his own issue. He said something about having to format. My Seagate was ready to go from beginning to end.
I just made my CD Drive first bootable and did everything off the disk instead of installing the software to the drive I wanted to clone and in 10 minutes everything was transferred to the Seagate. It will set your new drive to NTFS format if you want. I popped it in and immediately my laptop recognized the harddrive. Not only was XP Pro w/SP2 all there but so was all my files and folders and any other software I had installed.
Seriously, it has to be one of the simplest and quickest things I have ever done.
By the way, that link you gave to the product you bought looks like it has a lot of the same parts for the Apricorn Drivewire.
That one gives the best transfer rate for PATA (2.5" to 3.5"), I do have one and use it for cloning or running virus scans where possible.I use this one:
From here:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16812203012
I also image the drives, info here: https://www.techspot.com/vb/post664079-2.html
I have never used that software and don't know if it made an image of the drive.i'm using sata 2.5"
erm i hv backed up a copy of my vista usin nti backup. would that be able to restore the image to a clean hardrive?