Re: laptop to laptop copy???
- From: usenetMYSHOES@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Andrew)
- Date: 27 Aug 2005 18:43:33 GMT
ArtFD <adembinski@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
: Speed of backup is important to me. I have used Norton 2003 to back up an
: installed Toshiba A35 laptop HDD to an external USB HDD, then burned the
: image
: files to a DVD that the A35 can later read. To make this possible, I had
: to create a DOS boot disk
: with USB drivers for DOS that I cobbled together after Googling around.
: When the external floppy DD booted the Ghost/OS, the USB HDD drive was
: recognized just fine,
: but it took (as I recall) several hours to create the Ghost backup files. I
: also need to back up several other old Toshiba laptops (1605, 435, 405), and
: find it easiest to remove the HDD's and snap them into a desktop, Ghost 2003
: backs them up in minutes over the IDE interface & I'm on my way.
Fast backups are important to me, too. That's why I use True Image
from Acronis. It makes backup images fairly quickly (even if its estimates
for time to create the images seems very inaccurate), and its rescue
CD (which I've booted on numerous computers) seems to have drivers for
all the hardware I've tried it on, so I don't need to go to the
trouble of making a DOS boot disk to have it recognize my external CD
burner or my external hard drives.
I'd be surprised if the latest versions of Ghost don't have the same
sort of drivers built into its version of a rescue CD.
Andrew
: ----- Original Message -----
: From: "Barry Watzman" <WatzmanNOSPAM@xxxxxxxxxx>
: Newsgroups: comp.sys.laptops
: Sent: Friday, 26 August 2005 21:29
: Subject: Re: laptop to laptop copy???
: > Certainly that will work, and 2 years ago would have been the preferred
: > choice. But these days, with entire laptop IDE drive USB cases selling
: > for as little as under $10, and with software like Ghost, Drive Image,
: > Acronis, etc., fully supporting USB drives, it is just MUCH easier to use
: > an external USB 2 case (actually, you don't need the entire case, just the
: > tiny adapter card and cable).
: >
: >
: > ArtFD wrote:
: >> Another option is to remove the drive, use a 2.5" HDD to IDE adaptor to
: >> connect the laptops' HDD directly to an IDE port on a desktop. This is
: >> an extremely rapid method of transfer, and works without using USB. This
: >> same method can be used for creating an image of a laptop HDD in case of
: >> a HDD crash, with a utility such as Norton Ghost.
: >> "Barry Watzman" <WatzmanNOSPAM@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
: >> news:430E2AC8.8020007@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
: >>
: >>>If the computer is a 420CDT, which I think it might be, it's so old it
: >>>doesn't have USB or cardbus. In that case, the best option is to remove
: >>>the drive and use one a USB to IDE solution
: >>
: >>
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Andrew
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