Re: [Thinkpad] upgrading tp600 HD

If your previous OS was/ is working fine...Image the drive .
It will save you days / weeks of getting things going again.

IBM /Hitachi has free cloning software ..even does NTFS .
Can't remember the name ...and it's a pig, ie will NOT fit on a floppy but works .
Just paw around their site.

Xcopy32 /c/ h e /r /y works fine for win 98 ..not sure about other OS'es .
No need to copy the MBR .
( you do need to Fdisk / and format the new drive though ;-}

..peter..

----- Original Message -----
From: "M. Crane" <cranema@uvsc.edu>
To: <thinkpad@stderr.org>
Sent: Tuesday, July 08, 2003 7:03 AM
Subject: [Thinkpad] upgrading tp600 HD

> After dropping my laptop my hd has a few sectors that not even the Hitachi
> utility can fix, so to be safe I bought a new 8gb travelstar on Ebay.
>
> The question I have, is would it be prudent to directly image the original
> drive onto the new one using Ghost or Imagecast, or should I just do a
> windows reinstall?
>
> Second n00b question: Is there any freeware disk cloning software out
> there, or can I use xcopy and then copy the mbr?
>
> many thanks.
>
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