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Recovering Data on Harddrive

Started by DZHANG , Jan 31 2009 04:41 PM

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DZHANG

Posted 31 January 2009 - 04:41 PM

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Hi, i have a really old hard drive that has been crashing alot, usually after running for 15 minutes. ive checked the rest of the hardware(all working fine) so i replaced the hard drive and i wanted to know the best way to copy the entire contents of the old hard drive over to the new one. just wanted to know your guys's opinions thanks!

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makai

Posted 01 February 2009 - 02:37 AM

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Not exactly sure what you're trying to do here. If you mean transfering "data", then all you have to do is mount the drive as a slave to your new drive and drag the files from the old drive to the new drive. If you're talking about moving the entire OS, programs, drivers, and data, then you're talking about cloning. There are many applications that can do this... ie, Acronis True Image, Ghost, etc. Even some manufacture's drive utilities can clone a drive. If you know the drive manufacture, check their website for free software to do this.