I have a new hard drive, and on the existing (old) one, I would the settings, windows XP, programs etc transferred to the new one. I understand about Master and Slave, but which is which? And inside what IDE cable connects to what for master/slave? If software is needed can anyone recommend any decent ones free? Trial? Also provide links of the software.
2007-02-09 06:40:21 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous in Computers & Internet ➔ Hardware ➔ Add-ons
The master/slave settings are typically indicated and set by jumpers on the drive. Master/slave only applies to the two drives on a single cable. Using the cable select settings on the drives, IIRC, the drive at the end of the cable is the slave. Though I may be wrong, I normally set the master/slave specifically at the drive since some drives, particularly older ones, and sometimes IDE controllers have trouble with the auto cable selection. If there is only one drive on a cable, then it doesn't matter as they are on different IDE channels.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IDE
I used ghost before Norton took it over for verbatim copying of drives and making images to distribute to multiple machines. For a while some drives included a copying utility with them. Anymore, I'd use 'dd' to make an exact copy of drive partitions.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dd_(Unix)
The wikipedia article on dd should give enough info on it and links to make use of it. There is a windows version in the external links section of the article.
2007-02-09 07:06:56 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
easily do no longer throw away your previous laptop in the present day. it could nevertheless have some makes use of. Regardless, it used IDE cables to connect with the motherboard. the customary these days are SATA cables. Your motherboard could lack IDE cables, even though it likely nevertheless has a slot on it to apply the previous cables. if so, you are able to take those out of your previous laptop and clean up the situation rapidly. If no longer, the main suitable i will advise is attempting to discover some variety of IDE-to-SATA converter.
2016-11-03 00:09:31 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Here is a link to a great program that I have used. Its free for 15 day trial. Pull Down the file menu to select disk image,go from there.
Go to the bottom of the page the link brings up and click on download
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2007-02-09 07:24:14 · answer #3 · answered by Roadman 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Why not have both in there?
You can still run your programs from your old one and have space on the new one for more data.
2007-02-09 06:46:39 · answer #4 · answered by footynutguy 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
have you try ed sync from old drive to new should have sync facility or make back up of all files then transfer
2007-02-09 09:16:25 · answer #5 · answered by STEVEN S 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋