[Ham-Computers] Hard drive crash

[Jim Brampton]

I have had great success with Norton Ghost versions 5 and 6. I have not 
tried to use ghost with the source disk bad. Ghost does make a clone of 
 a drive. The great advantage , If you have the hard drives, is that the 
image that the program creates can be broken into 700 meg segments and 
burned to CD. These burned images will load back onto a hard drive and 
are a total system backup. I have transferred the entire OS and programs 
from a Laptop to a tower and used the printer port (Parallel) as the 
connection to the laptop.

If the hard drive works ever 2 or 3rd time then possibly if you made 3 
images one of the images would be useable.

Jim VE3 JIW Toronto, Ontario  and Muskoka

EUGENE wrote:

>Perhaps someone on the list can help me with this problem:
>One of my PC's has a HDD (Maxtor) that was starting to fail. I installed a second HDD (Also Maxtor) and used their copy program to clone the original, but the pgm kept telling me that there were problems with the disk.
>So, I did an XOOPY and copied everything from the original disk to the new one. Then I re-installed WINME. (I know that when you clone a disk you can clone all of the problems, but these problems were with the disk and not the programs). Most of the desktop is as original, but over half of the shortcuts do not work and when I go to the actual folder, the program also does not work.
>I KNOW that I should have backed everything up BEFORE this happened, but alas, I did not. (Since this happened, I bought a 250 GB WDD networkable backup system...)
>So, the bottom line questions are:
> "Is there a way to 'transfer' programs from one HDD to another?"
>(BTW, with the original HDD, it would work OK some of the time and about every second or third time of boot up, it would say Boot failure, insert a system disk.)
>If there is anyone out there that can help me with this, it would be GREATLY APPRECIATED!
>Thanks in advance,
>Gene, WØQFC
>Spring Hill, FL
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