clone sata hdd

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My sata hdd (80gb)is just about to go and I wish to clone it on another
bigger capacity sata hdd (160gb). I would like to be partition into 2
partitions.

I have a cd which says DriveClone3 (Fast Stone Technologies). Now how do I
go about cloning it?

1/ I suppose I have to connect the new sata hdd on sata2 connector
2/ Then I install this program in the old hdd?
3/ Then cloning operation (hope I know how to do it)
4/ Do I partition it during the cloning operation or do I have to format
160gb hdd
first and partition it before the cloning operation?

Kindly please advice and thanks for your help.
 
How you do it depends on the options included in your clone application, it
varies by App and I havent used that one.
According to the user manual, available on Farstone site, you can select the
size of the partition you are cloning to,
http://www.farstone.com/software/driveclone.htm

"oh2oh2" <oh2oh2@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> My sata hdd (80gb)is just about to go and I wish to clone it on another
> bigger capacity sata hdd (160gb). I would like to be partition into 2
> partitions.
>
> I have a cd which says DriveClone3 (Fast Stone Technologies). Now how do I
> go about cloning it?
>
> 1/ I suppose I have to connect the new sata hdd on sata2 connector
> 2/ Then I install this program in the old hdd?
> 3/ Then cloning operation (hope I know how to do it)
> 4/ Do I partition it during the cloning operation or do I have to format
> 160gb hdd
> first and partition it before the cloning operation?
>
> Kindly please advice and thanks for your help.
 
"oh2oh2" <oh2oh2@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:90A00ED3-7663-4179-9E2F-BAD47EC2694B@microsoft.com...
> My sata hdd (80gb)is just about to go and I wish to clone it on another
> bigger capacity sata hdd (160gb). I would like to be partition into 2
> partitions.
>
> I have a cd which says DriveClone3 (Fast Stone Technologies). Now how do I
> go about cloning it?
>
> 1/ I suppose I have to connect the new sata hdd on sata2 connector
> 2/ Then I install this program in the old hdd?
> 3/ Then cloning operation (hope I know how to do it)
> 4/ Do I partition it during the cloning operation or do I have to format
> 160gb hdd
> first and partition it before the cloning operation?
>
> Kindly please advice and thanks for your help.

Read the instructions?

There is a program called BootItNG which allows you to copy and paste your
old partition to your new drive. No need to format.

Create then boot from floppy/CD/USB drive, (do not install program), go into
maintainence mode. Select partition you want, copy, select destination drive
paste. The space on the new drive must be unpartitioned

Check MBR of new drive and make sure it is set as active, (otherwise it
won't boot).

Turn off PC disconnect old drive, reboot into new drive, (may need to set
BIOS to boot from new drive).

If everything seems OK, you can either create a new partition using XPs disk
manager with the empty space on the drive, or if you want the entire HDD to
be used by the system partition, boot back into BootItNG, (same as before),
select partition then resize etc. Before leaving XP it's a good idea to
change the desktop, so it's obvious which installation you have loaded -
this helps with the next step.

Turn off PC, reconnect old drive. At this point some motherboards may change
the boot order since it detects a new HDD. Go back into the BIOS and make
sure the new drive is the first boot drive.

Whichever program you choose to use it's a good opportunity to play around
with the software so you know it works, and how to use it, and more
importantly that it does work when you need it.
 
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