EIDE to SATA

[Stern]

I have a system with WinXP Pro, NTFS file system, 60GB EIDE harddrive. I bought a 120GB SATA harddrive and want to move EVERYTHING from the EIDE harddrive to the SATA harddrive.

I have two problems

1. The SATA harddrive comes up in the device manager, so does the SATA controller, no problems, but it doesn't come up in my computer as a drive i can access and put files onto. It only appears in Device Manager when I put it as RAID 1. I press Ctrl+F when I boot the computer to enter the RAID setup. If it is unassigned it doesn't appear in Device Manager.

2. I have a program on a floppy disk for creating a drive image, but it only works in DOS, and DOS cant read NTFS. Is there any program I can use to convert NTFS to Fat32, then make the image and put it onto the new harddrive, then convert back to NTFS, or is there one that can make an image of an NTFS drive?

 

[Oyeve]

Go to control panel, administrative tools, computer management, disk management. See if you can see the SATA drive, if you can and it says unallocated then allocate and format it.

 

[MustISO]

Later versions of drive image 5.0+ (at least those) can create an image of a NTFS partition. Ghost 8.0+ can do this as well. The only issue I can imagine is that the image software won't see the SATA drive when it's in DOS.

 

[Oyeve]

Originally posted by: MustISO
Later versions of drive image 5.0+ (at least those) can create an image of a NTFS partition. Ghost 8.0+ can do this as well. The only issue I can imagine is that the image software won't see the SATA drive when it's in DOS.

I user ghost 2003 and it sees my SATA boot drive fine in does as i always reimage. Dont know about drive image.

 

[Stern]

thanks, i'll let you know how it went tomorrow

 

[Stern]

thanks oyeve, i'm able to use the SATA drive now. going to try and get me ghost 8.0+ or image 5.0+ now.

 

[poppyq]

You don't actually need to create an image of the drive, ghost allows you to do a straight drive copy from one to the other, I believe you can also find a free (legal) trial version of ghost 2003 on their page somewhere that will let you do this. Try searching google for ghost 2003 trial

 

[Oyeve]

Originally posted by: poppyq
You don't actually need to create an image of the drive, ghost allows you to do a straight drive copy from one to the other, I believe you can also find a free (legal) trial version of ghost 2003 on their page somewhere that will let you do this. Try searching google for ghost 2003 trial

I ghost an image to an external firewire drive that i can put away for safe keeping. I dont like to ghost to another HD in the system as it is not safe enough in case of massive power surge or such.

 

[SUOrangeman]

I dont like to ghost to another HD in the system as it is not safe enough in case of massive power surge or such.

Wait a sec. Lemme guess. You must power that external drive from an outlet in the next town, right? If you only using outlets in your house, how is external FireWire versus internal PC going to save you in a "massive power surge?" Also consider that you're only reading from the source drive (hopefully). The destination drive might have some unrecoverable damage due to an interruption in power, but the source drive should survive.

I'm not saying that using an external drive is bad nor wrong. I just believe that your logic for doing do is a little flawed.

-SUO

 

[Antoneo]

SUOrangeman has a good point. I would imagine an UPS would be a solution to the power outrage risk.

 

[Oyeve]

Originally posted by: SUOrangeman

I dont like to ghost to another HD in the system as it is not safe enough in case of massive power surge or such.

Wait a sec. Lemme guess. You must power that external drive from an outlet in the next town, right? If you only using outlets in your house, how is external FireWire versus internal PC going to save you in a "massive power surge?" Also consider that you're only reading from the source drive (hopefully). The destination drive might have some unrecoverable damage due to an interruption in power, but the source drive should survive.

I'm not saying that using an external drive is bad nor wrong. I just believe that your logic for doing do is a little flawed.

-SUO

Cuz my main PC is on all the time and the external is only used to ghost and is off 99% of the time. make sense now?

 

[SUOrangeman]

I was mostly joking with my response. I fully agree with keeping backup drives offline, excepted when needed. I am unfortunately living a life right now where I have TWO backup HDs in my system online 100% of the time. Hopefully, I'll correct this situation once the zMAXdp is widely available ... for cheap.

-SUO

 

[Stern]

maybe i'm just blind, i can't find a link for ghost 2003 trial
all i can find is Symantec Ghost Corporate Edition, which isn't recommended for home users
Ghost Corporate Edition

 

[Stern]

would i be able to use ghost corporate edition? does it work the same as ghost 2003? i have never used any of these programs before

 

[Stern]

bump

 

[SUOrangeman]

I think you'll be fine. The Corporate side of Ghost is moreso for setting up a server to host images for several machines on the network. The actual "client" for making images is still the same, irrespective of 2003, "Personal," or "Corporate."

-SUO