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Ok here is the situation

Boot drive = 5400 40gig maxtor

New drive= 7200 120gig WD

I used the data lifeguard disc to format the 120 gig, All good.

When I use wd's data lifequard to copy the boot drive it gets to 73% every time and hangs(3 attempts)
This is a pain cuz this is 3 hours into each copy


Anyone reccomend a diffent program to do what i want to acheive, I woud need a program that copys everything(boot sector) etc, as the 120 will completely replace the boot drive.

Thanks
Bill

Norton Ghost do that? I may be mistaken.. I'm sure FP will chime in before too long.. Where ya been? We were tryin' to play UT last night and could have used you to set up a server! lol.. eGo

Sry, ive been having lung problems the last two days and have been heavily medicated, ive played about 1 hour of games over the last three days, and it was to test the new dc

Damn Bud.. I hope you get to feeling better soon.. eGo

Norton Ghost is the best way to go.

However, be aware there may be another issue involved. Some IDE controllers don't recognize a 120Gb or bigger drive properly. Make sure your controller does (anything made in the last year, and definately any NFORCE2 boards should).

That's the reason why some 120Gb+ drives come with a Promise controller.

Are you using the entire 120Gb as one partition? I wouldn't recommend it. It'll be slow to defrag and you'll greatly reduce the chances of losing data due to drive corruption by splitting it into smaller partitions.

I go into this in greater detail here: http://www.pcabusers.net/forums/showthr ... post182444


Feel better Billy...

Ok FP
formated the drive shows up in windows as

Compacity 120,019,144,704 bytes 111gb

so it appears my IDE controller supports the drive

Ghost does hd to hd copys?, ive only used it to do a multivolume cd backup

yes ghost can do drive to drive copies... but i'd recommend using acronis partitionmagic the boot disc can easily do the job and is a whole lot faster than most utilities i've used including ghost

ok, ill whip out my PM disks tonight to see if I have any better luck

Wow, I've never used PM to do it, but I have used Ghost and it works well.

Rad's guide to ghost seems to be the best Ghost Primer, ger it here:

Rad's Ghost Guide

lol i got a mix up.. i think it was powerquest (is that still the company that owns it?) partitionmagic and acronis partitionexpert... LOL too bad no one came up w/ a more creative name to differentiate the products

PowerQuest's product is called Drive Image. Terrific prog.