clone 1st hard drive - vista ultimate

machine has two 40gb drives, plain IDE type, on vista ultimate edition

1st drive has all kinds of errors and I'd like to clone it, using acronis 9
boot cd to a usb drive and then to new, same type of ide drive

will vista ultimate object to my plan or should I use some other software
instead of acronis?

On Thu, 19 Apr 2007 21:50:01 +0300, JohnS wrote:

> machine has two 40gb drives, plain IDE type, on vista ultimate edition
>
> 1st drive has all kinds of errors and I'd like to clone it, using acronis 9
> boot cd to a usb drive and then to new, same type of ide drive
>
> will vista ultimate object to my plan or should I use some other software
> instead of acronis?

FWIW - I've done that using 'dd' under Linux and also using 'partimage'.

Acronis 9 is not necessarily compatible with Vista...to have the best chance of success and assuming the master drive error are not indicative of problems within the o/s, common/shared files, and installed software.
- Backup any data on the error laden drive to the external
- Remove the current slave, install the new as a slave, then clone the master to the new slave. Shutdown, reverse the drives, resetting the jumper to master, install the old slave, restart to the bios ensure the new drive is recognized(set to auto and also the boot drive). Exit bios, startup and hope for the best.

If your usb is a drive enclosure capable of installing any drive, if necessary you may be able to install it in the usb enclosure.

If it doesn't work, consider using the Vista cd to repair or start with a fresh install. You have to reactivate Vista online or via phone due to a hardware change.

...winston

"JohnS" <js@Htfan.se> wrote in message news:58prupF2hube9U1@mid.individual.net...
: machine has two 40gb drives, plain IDE type, on vista ultimate edition
:
: 1st drive has all kinds of errors and I'd like to clone it, using acronis 9
: boot cd to a usb drive and then to new, same type of ide drive
:
: will vista ultimate object to my plan or should I use some other software
: instead of acronis?
:
:

I've been very successful with Ghost 2003. I partitioned one of my machines
with a 15GB C: drive, rest FAT32 D: drive. I boot a CD with Ghost & ghost
the c: to an image (a few 2GB files) on d:. Works great. Sometimes after a
restore I've needed to boot the Vista DVD & do a repair, no big deal. I have
done several restores, works great.

Norm

"JohnS" <js@Htfan.se> wrote in message
news:58prupF2hube9U1@mid.individual.net...
> machine has two 40gb drives, plain IDE type, on vista ultimate edition
>
> 1st drive has all kinds of errors and I'd like to clone it, using acronis
> 9 boot cd to a usb drive and then to new, same type of ide drive
>
> will vista ultimate object to my plan or should I use some other software
> instead of acronis?
>
>

....winston wrote:
> Acronis 9 is not necessarily compatible with Vista...

actually, since no use of acronis occurs inside vista, the boot cd works fine, connect
both drives, clone away

have done several drives for vista ultimate and they bootup just fine after cloning is
completed

no need to install anything into vista, the cloning is done all inside the acronis cd
environment from bootup

The instructions provided should work with your approach too.
Are you cloning to an external drive. I've had better success with Acronis on Vista partitions cloning to the slave drive(thus the suggestion 'best chance of success').
I should note-- all my slaves are identical size, model, and manufacturer to the corresponding master; all WD160GB from a private warehouse auction/liquidation sale, all externals are Seagate ranging from 40GB-120GB(the different manufacturer helps me keep them straight).

...winston

"John N" <j@trudy.jp> wrote in message news:58qb2rF2gnojbU1@mid.individual.net...
: ...winston wrote:
: > Acronis 9 is not necessarily compatible with Vista...
:
: actually, since no use of acronis occurs inside vista, the boot cd works fine, connect
: both drives, clone away
:
: have done several drives for vista ultimate and they bootup just fine after cloning is
: completed
:
: no need to install anything into vista, the cloning is done all inside the acronis cd
: environment from bootup
:

"JohnS" <js@Htfan.se> wrote
> machine has two 40gb drives, plain IDE type, on vista ultimate edition
>
> 1st drive has all kinds of errors and I'd like to clone it, using acronis
> 9 boot cd to a usb drive and then to new, same type of ide drive
>
> will vista ultimate object to my plan or should I use some other software
> instead of acronis?

If the drive has errors, then why would you think the clone will be ok?
Generally it's GIGO.

--
Rock [MS-MVP User/Shell]