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Cloning Hard Drives

Aug 14, 2004 3:39AM PDT

I want to clone copies of my Hard Drive to blank hard drives. I have a few extra blank Hard Drives, what program do you think is best to do this? I also need information regarding the position of the jumpers on the target drives and how they need to be changed once the cloned drive is designated as the primary drive. Thanks.

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Re: Cloning Hard Drives
Aug 14, 2004 4:17AM PDT

1. I use Norton's GHOST.

2. I never have to move jumpers. Today's modern machines have ATA66 or faster interfaces and use 80 conductor cables. The hard disks are set to Cable Select and master/slave is determined by what connector you use.

Bob

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Re: Cloning Hard Drives
Aug 14, 2004 7:27AM PDT

Thats what I thought. However, after cloning my HD to a target HD with Norton Ghost, I inserted the new cloned HD into the computer, re-booted and the machine gave an error message that it was unable to locate the Operating System. It was as thought the BIOS had forgotten where to look for the HD. I'll try again, thanks for the reply.

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Did you happen to...
Aug 14, 2004 7:30AM PDT

After the clone, some make the mistake and boot the system. Sorry, you get to clone it again. The reason was discussed in the forum before. I'll let you dig it out.

Bob