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Offline minke

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transferring data
« on: April 03, 2009, 06:43:12 PM »
Last year i got myself a busted sony vaio pcg-k315b laptop as a project to play around with. After a lot of messing round,it's running fine. The only hard drive I had was tiny, 6 gig i think. After putting xp sp3,all drivers,IE8 and aces high on, theres nothing left. Gonna put in a 120gig drive in,but have 2 dilemmas. My windows xp cd is scratched and wont load a couple of the files,so cant use it. Which is the best way to transfer all the contents? I have a copy of norton ghost knocking around so I could burn the lot onto a disc, or should i bite the bullet and just go for vista with an oem version? The whole idea was to spend as little as possible (£88 so far including a 1gig ram upgrade) doing a lot of umming and drumming my fingers.
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Re: transferring data
« Reply #1 on: April 03, 2009, 07:59:00 PM »
Quote from: minke on April 03, 2009, 06:43:12 PM
Last year i got myself a busted sony vaio pcg-k315b laptop as a project to play around with. After a lot of messing round,it's running fine. The only hard drive I had was tiny, 6 gig i think. After putting xp sp3,all drivers,IE8 and aces high on, theres nothing left. Gonna put in a 120gig drive in,but have 2 dilemmas. My windows xp cd is scratched and wont load a couple of the files,so cant use it. Which is the best way to transfer all the contents? I have a copy of norton ghost knocking around so I could burn the lot onto a disc, or should i bite the bullet and just go for vista with an oem version? The whole idea was to spend as little as possible (£88 so far including a 1gig ram upgrade) doing a lot of umming and drumming my fingers.

Buy the HD and a cheap USB external drive enclosure.  Put the new drive in the enclosure then go to the HD manufacturer's web-site and D/L their mirroring tools.  Mirror the old drive to the new one then swap them around.

The new one should just boot right up and then you can re-format the old one and have a spiffy new 9 Gb exteral USB drive.

I just put a 120Gb drive in my Vaio PCG-F series and got a Rosewill external enclosure for my old 11 Gb drive.  It's powered by the USB port so no outlet needed and it's plug and play with XP.
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Re: transferring data
« Reply #2 on: April 04, 2009, 12:50:49 AM »
Go to the local motorcycle shop and get some visor polish (Novis Plastic Polish #2 'Fine Scratch Remover') and buff that CD out until it can be read. I have saved quite a few scratched CDs and DVDs that way.  :aok

Works on airplane canopies too.
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Offline minke

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Re: transferring data
« Reply #3 on: April 10, 2009, 09:10:55 AM »
Got it all sorted now,put in a samsung Hm160HC hard drive, very pleased with it. Game has  a sucky frame rate of 20,which is to be expected. Will try and tweak some more performance out of it.
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Offline smokey23

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Re: transferring data
« Reply #4 on: April 12, 2009, 04:47:08 PM »
Eagle Im going to do the same thing upgradeing to a 1tb harddrive from this tiney 80gig what USB drive would you suggest?. 
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Offline BaldEagl

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Re: transferring data
« Reply #5 on: April 12, 2009, 06:11:48 PM »
Quote from: smokey23 on April 12, 2009, 04:47:08 PM
Eagle Im going to do the same thing upgradeing to a 1tb harddrive from this tiney 80gig what USB drive would you suggest?. 

I've got a NexStar 3 IDE to USB:  http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817145133  It works as expected and I can't tell the difference in speed between it and an internal drive.  I've got an old 13 Gb drive in it but am about to swap in a 120.

I've also got this one http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817182143 that I use with my laptop as it's USB powered (no outlet required).  Again I can't really tell the difference in speed.  I've got a 60 Gb WD laptop IDE drive in that one (just upgraded that one this week)

Both these run cool and quiet.  You can get SATA versions if that's what you need.  Some even accomodate IDE and SATA.

Just get one that's got good user ratings and is in your price range.  There really isn't much to them.  Aluminum will cool better if you're worried about it but I run both mine continuously and they are always cool to the touch.  You don't need one with fans or anything.
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Offline smokey23

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Re: transferring data
« Reply #6 on: April 13, 2009, 10:48:57 PM »
Im transfering dats from a IDE off my old Hdrive to a new sata Hdrive
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Offline BaldEagl

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Re: transferring data
« Reply #7 on: April 13, 2009, 11:18:56 PM »
Quote from: smokey23 on April 13, 2009, 10:48:57 PM
Im transfering dats from a IDE off my old Hdrive to a new sata Hdrive

OK.  So if you did a clean OS install to the SATA drive then just buy an IDE external enclosure like the one I listed first, install your old IDE drive in it, plug it into a USB port and transfer your data.  Then you can reformat the IDE in the external enclosure and use it as a plug and play secondary drive.

If you don't want to do a clean install but rather mirror everything over, then get an IDE/SATA dual support enclosure.  Install the new SATA drive into it then mirror the old IDE drive onto it after formatting.  Pull both drives out and swap positions and the system should boot.  Then you can reformat the old IDE drive.

If you don't care  about ever using the IDE drive again then get a SATA enclosure to install the new drive into and mirror the old one over.  Then take the drive out, remove the IDE drive, put it in your machine and boot up.

Of course you don't need to buy a thing if you can plug both drives in internally.  If so then do that.  Format the new drive, mirror the old one over then shut down.  When you reboot enter the BIOS and set the new SATA drive as the first hard drive in the hard drive priority list (not the first boot device as you may want to leave floppy or CD/DVD ROM as a first boot device).
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Offline TheZohan

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Re: transferring data
« Reply #8 on: April 14, 2009, 06:48:02 AM »
Inappropriate!
« Last Edit: April 14, 2009, 03:39:59 PM by Skuzzy »
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Re: transferring data
« Reply #9 on: April 14, 2009, 12:59:00 PM »
Quote from: TheZohan on April 14, 2009, 06:48:02 AM
Inappropriate!

this is also a great way to get your PC infected. 
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Re: transferring data
« Reply #10 on: April 14, 2009, 01:35:23 PM »
Quote from: Casper1 on April 14, 2009, 12:59:00 PM
this is also a great way to get your PC infected. 

so is being on the internet but look whos there
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