HD Drive Imaging?

Dreyco · 12-October-04, 09:47 PM

OK I just bought a 200Gigger SATA HD and I want to more everything that is on my current 40gigger except for my music without re-installing everything (including OS). Somepeople were saying I should image the drive and i should be fine. Does this work, and how? Also does imaging effect the speed of loading programs?

Thanks

aaronrkelly · 12-October-04, 09:56 PM

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Originally Posted by Dreyco


	OK I just bought a 200Gigger SATA HD and I want to more everything that is on my current 40gigger except for my music without re-installing everything (including OS). Somepeople were saying I should image the drive and i should be fine. Does this work, and how? Also does imaging effect the speed of loading programs? Thanks

I wouldnt see how imaging would affect load times - unless your imaging an old install thats all crudded up with crap. I have good luck with Drive Image formerly by PowerQuest - they have recently been bought by Symantec. Norton Ghost is probably the most popular though - I remember some one just recently was having trouble with Ghost and their SATA hard drive......might wanna check into it before you buy.

I see installing major hardware like a hard drive a perfect time to do a re-install......probably one of the cheapest ways to give your system new life.

Dreyco · 15-October-04, 05:57 PM

Ok I got Ghost, made an image file now how do I use that file so I can move everything to my other HD (including OS)?

Thanks!

lAnonymousl · 15-October-04, 06:22 PM

I think you've got the wrong idea. This contains a wealth of helpful info:
http://ghost.radified.com/ghost_1.htm

"An image is nothing more than a techie term for a special type of file .. usually a rather large file .. depending on how much data is contained on your boot drive/partition (where Windows resides) .. or whatever drive/partition you select as the source for your image [screen shot].

Don't confuse a Norton Ghost image with a jpeg, gif, or other conventional type of graphic image file. The so-called 'image' that Ghost creates is similar to a 'snapshot' taken of the contents of either your entire hard drive, or an individual partition (you decide which) [screen shot].

The combination of the small program file (ghost.exe, which can be stored on a bootable floppy, or on a bootable CD) .. and the large image file [file_name.gho, stored on a drive/partition other than the one you plan to restore, or on a CD, or on a series of multiple "spanned" CDs if your image is larger than 650MB, or on a DVD] .. gives you the ability to restore your system to an earlier, working configuration .. in minutes! .. no matter how badly you screw things up. Sound rad? It is!"

Dreyco · 15-October-04, 06:54 PM

lol yea, i know its not a "picture" but yea I figured out how to make a copy now I need to figure out how to get it to boot off my Serial ATA HD instead of my other one... How do I know which HD I am running the OS off of now that the HD's have identical files on them? Do I need to mess with my boot file or can I just go through BIOS?

Dreyco · 15-October-04, 07:07 PM

OK scratch the BIOS idea... it gave me some sort of error when I changed the Boot order so that leaves me with the boot file. Unless there is something else I dont know about (very possible)

here is my boot file....

[boot loader]
timeout=30
default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOW S
[operating systems]
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XP Professional" /fastdetect /NoExecute=OptIn

12-October-04, 09:47 PM		#1 (permalink)
Dreyco PCApex's Mac Man	HD Drive Imaging? OK I just bought a 200Gigger SATA HD and I want to more everything that is on my current 40gigger except for my music without re-installing everything (including OS). Somepeople were saying I should image the drive and i should be fine. Does this work, and how? Also does imaging effect the speed of loading programs? Thanks

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15-October-04, 05:57 PM		#3 (permalink)
Dreyco PCApex's Mac Man	Ok I got Ghost, made an image file now how do I use that file so I can move everything to my other HD (including OS)? Thanks!

15-October-04, 06:22 PM		#4 (permalink)
lAnonymousl The Who? Hoe	I think you've got the wrong idea. This contains a wealth of helpful info: http://ghost.radified.com/ghost_1.htm "An image is nothing more than a techie term for a special type of file .. usually a rather large file .. depending on how much data is contained on your boot drive/partition (where Windows resides) .. or whatever drive/partition you select as the source for your image [screen shot]. Don't confuse a Norton Ghost image with a jpeg, gif, or other conventional type of graphic image file. The so-called 'image' that Ghost creates is similar to a 'snapshot' taken of the contents of either your entire hard drive, or an individual partition (you decide which) [screen shot]. The combination of the small program file (ghost.exe, which can be stored on a bootable floppy, or on a bootable CD) .. and the large image file [file_name.gho, stored on a drive/partition other than the one you plan to restore, or on a CD, or on a series of multiple "spanned" CDs if your image is larger than 650MB, or on a DVD] .. gives you the ability to restore your system to an earlier, working configuration .. in minutes! .. no matter how badly you screw things up. Sound rad? It is!"

15-October-04, 06:54 PM		#5 (permalink)
Dreyco PCApex's Mac Man	lol yea, i know its not a "picture" but yea I figured out how to make a copy now I need to figure out how to get it to boot off my Serial ATA HD instead of my other one... How do I know which HD I am running the OS off of now that the HD's have identical files on them? Do I need to mess with my boot file or can I just go through BIOS?

15-October-04, 07:07 PM		#6 (permalink)
Dreyco PCApex's Mac Man	OK scratch the BIOS idea... it gave me some sort of error when I changed the Boot order so that leaves me with the boot file. Unless there is something else I dont know about (very possible) here is my boot file.... [boot loader] timeout=30 default=multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOW S [operating systems] multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XP Professional" /fastdetect /NoExecute=OptIn