How to clone an IDE drive (OT)

From: Joe <rigdonj_at_intellistar.net>
Date: Thu Jan 18 12:45:24 2001

FWIW:

   Last weekend, Staples had an ad in the local paper for a 20Gb drive for
$99 and they'd give you a free 32 Mb SIMM with it. I bought one of the
drives (a Maxtor 32047) and just finished installing it in my daughter's
Pentium II box that's running WinBlows 98. The software that came with the
drive copied everything (about 17 Gb of files) from the old drive to the
new one with no difficulties in about an hour. The only problem that I had
was that the copy program wouldn't work with both drives on the primary
disk controller channel. I had to put one on the secondary channel and one
of the primary. After it finished copying, I removed the old drive and
installed the new one in it's place, reconnected the two CD drives to the
secondary channel and rebooted the machine with NO changes or problems.

    Joe
Received on Thu Jan 18 2001 - 12:45:24 GMT