Cloning a 2.5" IDE/PATA Laptop Hard drive

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On Tue, 7 Nov 2017 12:46:05 +0000, "J. P. Gilliver (John)"
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Thanks for that. Incidentally, xpinfo doesn't work with OEM (or VLK).
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By the way, this is where you can get Ghost 2003:

http://www.dslreports.com/r0/downloa...a3653cce1c3f14
7b3d4/GHOST_BOOTx.zip
Thanks for that too. I've downloaded both.


It looks like you are saying that you downloaded the Ghost zipfile. Is
that correct?
It is refusing to download for me. It starts downloading and fails after
about 10 seconds, saying "source could not be read".

Maybe this has something to do with my slow dialup internet, but it dont
even try. I have tried to DL this thing at least 10 times, used
different browsers too.
Another browser said:
"Does not appear to be a valid archive"

The file is 1.3mb. It will take a half hour on my dialup, but I can
usually DL files of that size without problems.

This does look to be thge best way to clone these drives. I dont even
want to attempt to do it with a CD, because I've been thru trying to
configure CD drives and Hard drives on the same cable, and it naver
worked. Not to mention I only have connectors for TWO IDEs and would
need THREE. On top of that, I will do anything to avoid burning CDs.
Thats generally another nightmare, especially if they need to be
bootable.

I'll have to drive to town and see if I can download it at a WIFI, but
it sure seems like the file is borked, and I'm not willing to drive 10
miles for nothing.



Do you have a copy of "wget.exe" ?

wget http://www.domain.com/file.zip

That puts "file.zip" in your current working directory
plus it give you a progress bar to watch the download.

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The one in here is fairly small. If I get the gnuwin32 one,
that has bigger files for some reason.

2,265,402 bytes (this is the WinXP windows update fetcher package)

https://web.archive.org/web/20140605...offline921.zip

Inside the ZIP file, in wsusoffline\bin\ you will find
wget.exe 233984 bytes.

You can then try that on the annoying NGINX server
at dslreports.

Paul