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Offline Eagler

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« on: December 06, 2001, 08:07:00 AM »
Powerquest's Disk Copy or Norton's Ghost

Just as my computer seems to be pretty stable, looks like my hard drive needs to be replaced (strange whining/spinning high pitch almost dog whistle sound along with occasional grinding). Which disk dup is best? Have used Disk Copy but not in the last couple of years, last few times it hosed both the master drive data and the new hd. Never used Ghost b4.
thanks for any suggestions/tips..
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Offline bloom25

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« Reply #1 on: December 06, 2001, 04:16:00 PM »
I use Ghost, works pretty well.  (What type of HD is it?)
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« Reply #2 on: December 07, 2001, 08:55:00 AM »
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Originally posted by bloom25:
I use Ghost, works pretty well.  (What type of HD is it?)

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It's an IBM 40gig the 7200 speed, dunno the part #. It's new but since the weekend has been putting out this high pitched whine thats drives anyone else in the room nuts and can be heard through my AH headphones. Seems to have started while trying to get a Dazzle card to work. Had a IBM 20 gig that started getting flaky less than a year ago. Thinking about going back to Western Digital..
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« Reply #3 on: December 07, 2001, 11:08:00 AM »
I use Ghost. Never had any problems. BTW, looks like it has a fool-proof against accidental copying target drive to source  ;)

Western Digital? I never buy this drives since "famous" 21000 and 31600 models, that had 50% "death ratio" in first 6 months. Maybe the drives they licensed from IBM were good, but I'm still afraid.

Today's "reliability champion" is Fujitsu. One model reached 100% "death ratio" - 11 out of 11 returned in 4 months.
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« Reply #4 on: December 07, 2001, 11:39:00 AM »
IBM Drives BITE!

With that said...I use norton's and I like it ok...I personally prefer to do a direct swap with the new HD resting on the case prior to install...it is faster, and it works well since I am already inside the guts of my PC.

Cheers!

WesternDigital 7200 anything ROCKS!

Stay away from Quantum and Maxtor...just my personal feelings as I have had IBM, Quantum and Maxtor all crash within 1 year of ownership!
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