Hard drive failing...........not only stardock but mine too

Published on November 27, 2003 By RockinMike In WinCustomize Talk

My hard drive is slowly dying. I would like to know if anyone can direct me how I or if I can transfer the files on my hard drive to a another hard drive on my computer. Add a second hard drive is it possible to transfer?
I sure could use a helping hand on this subject thank you.

Comments

kona0197

on Nov 27, 2003

use norton ghost after you install the new drive. It works great.

yrag

on Nov 27, 2003

If you don't know how to make (or use) a DOS boot disk download a floppy DOS boot proggie from HD site, (insert floppy in drive) re-boot into DOS and transfer all files to new drive. Set it up to be your new boot drive. Turn off system, unplug old drive and set new drive as master. Re-start system and there you go.........

IPlural

on Nov 27, 2003

Norton Ghost... make an image and then restore it to the new drive, make the new dirve the C drive one the image has been restored to it and then boot up to make sure Windows boots up correctly and everything is working properly.

Then download the Drive Managment software from the maker of the drive, Seagate, Maxtor, Western Digital, and so on... Format the drive with that software, it is written specifically for the controller chip on the drives mother board... and it is Free, and it also will not screw up your drive worse than it is, but stands the best chance of repairing what can be repaired and marking what will not repair as bad...

Third party apps screw it up a percentage of the time which is something you d not want to find has happened when you have saved something you are working on and think it is ok, only to find it is screwed the next time you attempt to load it up...

SelfExiled

on Nov 28, 2003

You can also burn your files to a CDR. It depends on whether you can still boot your system to windows.

I would burn my back up files and install a fresh system on a new hard drive. That's the easiest way.

RockinMike

on Nov 28, 2003

Thank you all for the help and support, I appreciate this very much. Thank you.

Jafo

on Nov 28, 2003

Making a ghost image file or not, try also to get the 'full' data copied over to an alternate location...long-hand....it's amazing what you can re-use from that process...even when it's not a boot image as such or even when your OS prevents you from accessing 'locked' files such as the ntuser.dat....[registry]...

bakerstreet

on Nov 30, 2003

Anyone else find it odd that so many hard drives failed last week. I know a guy that lives within two miles of me that lost a drive, too. I lost an 80gig drive on my filserver about Wednesday of last week. Strange.

Sugaree

on Nov 30, 2003

Wow that is strange....My sister-in-law lost hers too

bakerstreet

on Nov 30, 2003

Just odd that there have been so many 'lost my harddrive' posts in the last week or two, and this is the first harddrive that I have ever lost to a catastrophic mechanical failure. Less than two years old, too, in the same system with a drive that is 5+ years old.

Sun spots? Voodoo? Hardware gremlins? I dunno.

EventHorizon

on Nov 30, 2003

Maybe its UzEE...

on Nov 30, 2003

I'd be amazed if UzEE found a way to cause hard drives fail remotely.

Hmm could be a evil luddie ghost.

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