29 Dec
2000
29 Dec
'00
4:16 p.m.
The subject (I think) is on topic, the hardware to which I'm
refering is
a little too new for us, but I'm gonna ask anyway.
I have a Pentium I wintel box which I've had for nearly five years.
It's 1.9 GB HD has been slowly developing bearing whine for the last
several months. It is getting noticibly louder now and I'm sure this
faithful old HD is nearing the end of it's earthly sojourn.
My fantasy is that I can buy another IDE drive (of somewhat larger
capacity) and just somehow copy the whole thing on the original down
to the new one, without having to go thru the backup/restore/re-auth
all the programs I've got on it. I have 8mm streaming tape backups of
the system, but that's a pain.
I'm living in southern India so 'just pop in to Fry's and get a
package
like DriveCopy III' is not an option. :)
Any advice/how-to/magic formulae?
Cheers and Happy NuYeer
John
I just bought a 10 G Samsung and made an easy transfer.
Samsung, and I imagine most major manufacturers do the same,
provided me with a link to an installation program from On-Track.
Upon supplying the Samsung ser # number I was able to
download it. It even provided an overlay fix for my old Bios to
get around its 2 G limit rather than having to install a new Bios.
There's also a wealth of material at
http://www.ping.be/bios/
ciao larry
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