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Running Win XP with SP3, Exelstor and Maxter hard drives. I have a 250GB and a 80GB hard drive. I use the 80GB hard drive to clone from the 250GB hard drive every month using Norton Ghost. The 250GB drive is set to boot in the BIOS list (80GB drive not selected at all). Questions: 1) Should I disable the 80GB drive in Device Manager to avoid corruption and just enable it when I want to Norton Ghost to it? 2) If I do disable it and the 250GB drive fails completely at some point how would I enable the 80GB drive? If I selected this as the new boot drive in start up BIOS would it automatically be enabled? Many thanks Andy |
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On 18/07/2012 6:37 AM, Andrew Wilson wrote:
Hello Running Win XP with SP3, Exelstor and Maxter hard drives. I have a 250GB and a 80GB hard drive. I use the 80GB hard drive to clone from the 250GB hard drive every month using Norton Ghost. The 250GB drive is set to boot in the BIOS list (80GB drive not selected at all). Questions: 1) Should I disable the 80GB drive in Device Manager to avoid corruption and just enable it when I want to Norton Ghost to it? 2) If I do disable it and the 250GB drive fails completely at some point how would I enable the 80GB drive? If I selected this as the new boot drive in start up BIOS would it automatically be enabled? Many thanks Andy I'd say it would make no difference if disable to drive in Disk Manager. Just leave it enabled. Yousuf Khan |
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From: "Yousuf Khan"
On 18/07/2012 6:37 AM, Andrew Wilson wrote: Hello Running Win XP with SP3, Exelstor and Maxter hard drives. I have a 250GB and a 80GB hard drive. I use the 80GB hard drive to clone from the 250GB hard drive every month using Norton Ghost. The 250GB drive is set to boot in the BIOS list (80GB drive not selected at all). Questions: 1) Should I disable the 80GB drive in Device Manager to avoid corruption and just enable it when I want to Norton Ghost to it? 2) If I do disable it and the 250GB drive fails completely at some point how would I enable the 80GB drive? If I selected this as the new boot drive in start up BIOS would it automatically be enabled? Many thanks Andy I'd say it would make no difference if disable to drive in Disk Manager. Just leave it enabled. I agree. -- Dave Multi-AV Scanning Tool - http://multi-av.thespykiller.co.uk http://www.pctipp.ch/downloads/dl/35905.asp |
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"David H. Lipman" wrote in message
... From: "Yousuf Khan" On 18/07/2012 6:37 AM, Andrew Wilson wrote: Hello Running Win XP with SP3, Exelstor and Maxter hard drives. I have a 250GB and a 80GB hard drive. I use the 80GB hard drive to clone from the 250GB hard drive every month using Norton Ghost. The 250GB drive is set to boot in the BIOS list (80GB drive not selected at all). Questions: 1) Should I disable the 80GB drive in Device Manager to avoid corruption and just enable it when I want to Norton Ghost to it? 2) If I do disable it and the 250GB drive fails completely at some point how would I enable the 80GB drive? If I selected this as the new boot drive in start up BIOS would it automatically be enabled? Many thanks Andy I'd say it would make no difference if disable to drive in Disk Manager. Just leave it enabled. I agree. Me too. I would make sure that System Restore is turned OFF for that drive, though. -- Glen Ventura MS MVP Oct. 2002 - Sept. 2009 CompTIA A+ |
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From: "glee"
"David H. Lipman" wrote in message ... From: "Yousuf Khan" On 18/07/2012 6:37 AM, Andrew Wilson wrote: Hello Running Win XP with SP3, Exelstor and Maxter hard drives. I have a 250GB and a 80GB hard drive. I use the 80GB hard drive to clone from the 250GB hard drive every month using Norton Ghost. The 250GB drive is set to boot in the BIOS list (80GB drive not selected at all). Questions: 1) Should I disable the 80GB drive in Device Manager to avoid corruption and just enable it when I want to Norton Ghost to it? 2) If I do disable it and the 250GB drive fails completely at some point how would I enable the 80GB drive? If I selected this as the new boot drive in start up BIOS would it automatically be enabled? Many thanks Andy I'd say it would make no difference if disable to drive in Disk Manager. Just leave it enabled. I agree. Me too. I would make sure that System Restore is turned OFF for that drive, though. I'm not sure that's neccessary. Ghost image files are data files that are not subject to be in the System Restore cache. -- Dave Multi-AV Scanning Tool - http://multi-av.thespykiller.co.uk http://www.pctipp.ch/downloads/dl/35905.asp |
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"Andrew Wilson" wrote in message ... Hello Running Win XP with SP3, Exelstor and Maxter hard drives. I have a 250GB and a 80GB hard drive. I use the 80GB hard drive to clone from the 250GB hard drive every month using Norton Ghost. The 250GB drive is set to boot in the BIOS list (80GB drive not selected at all). Questions: 1) Should I disable the 80GB drive in Device Manager to avoid corruption and just enable it when I want to Norton Ghost to it? 2) If I do disable it and the 250GB drive fails completely at some point how would I enable the 80GB drive? If I selected this as the new boot drive in start up BIOS would it automatically be enabled? Many thanks Andy I'm going to play devil's advocate here and disagree with the gist of what the others have suggested :-) By leaving the drive connected to the rest of the computer, you are taking the chance of having it infected along with your system drive if you happen to pick up some sort of nasty somewhere. Another thing to consider is, if there's a lightning strike or power surge anywhere in your area that affects your PC, it could take out both of your drives, and then you'd have nothing to fall back on. My suggestion would be to buy an external USB/Firewire/eSATA device (depending on what ports you have installed on your PC), and either use the drive you have or a new one to create your images on. The only time it should be connected to your PC is when your are creating or restoring an image; other than that, it should be powered down and unplugged from the wall and the PC. Of course, that's just my opinion and the method I use, and others will have differing opinions, but that's OK. I've never lost an image yet, and can rely on it if I need it. If I was REALLY OC/AR, I'd have copies off-site like I did when I was working :-) -- SC Tom |
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"SC Tom" wrote in message ... "Andrew Wilson" wrote in message ... Hello Running Win XP with SP3, Exelstor and Maxter hard drives. I have a 250GB and a 80GB hard drive. I use the 80GB hard drive to clone from the 250GB hard drive every month using Norton Ghost. The 250GB drive is set to boot in the BIOS list (80GB drive not selected at all). Questions: 1) Should I disable the 80GB drive in Device Manager to avoid corruption and just enable it when I want to Norton Ghost to it? 2) If I do disable it and the 250GB drive fails completely at some point how would I enable the 80GB drive? If I selected this as the new boot drive in start up BIOS would it automatically be enabled? Many thanks Andy I'm going to play devil's advocate here and disagree with the gist of what the others have suggested :-) By leaving the drive connected to the rest of the computer, you are taking the chance of having it infected along with your system drive if you happen to pick up some sort of nasty somewhere. Another thing to consider is, if there's a lightning strike or power surge anywhere in your area that affects your PC, it could take out both of your drives, and then you'd have nothing to fall back on. My suggestion would be to buy an external USB/Firewire/eSATA device (depending on what ports you have installed on your PC), and either use the drive you have or a new one to create your images on. The only time it should be connected to your PC is when your are creating or restoring an image; other than that, it should be powered down and unplugged from the wall and the PC. Of course, that's just my opinion and the method I use, and others will have differing opinions, but that's OK. I've never lost an image yet, and can rely on it if I need it. If I was REALLY OC/AR, I'd have copies off-site like I did when I was working :-) -- SC Tom Thanks everyone for your comments. Tom That's why I posed the question because I didn't know what to do for the best. I didn't say this at the time but I also have a smaller USB hard drive which I clone using Norton Ghost from time to time. This is disconnected and stored when the ghost is complete. Still don't know what to do for the best with the 80GB drive though..... Thanks Andy |
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"Andrew Wilson" wrote in message ... "SC Tom" wrote in message ... "Andrew Wilson" wrote in message ... Hello Running Win XP with SP3, Exelstor and Maxter hard drives. I have a 250GB and a 80GB hard drive. I use the 80GB hard drive to clone from the 250GB hard drive every month using Norton Ghost. The 250GB drive is set to boot in the BIOS list (80GB drive not selected at all). Questions: 1) Should I disable the 80GB drive in Device Manager to avoid corruption and just enable it when I want to Norton Ghost to it? 2) If I do disable it and the 250GB drive fails completely at some point how would I enable the 80GB drive? If I selected this as the new boot drive in start up BIOS would it automatically be enabled? Many thanks Andy I'm going to play devil's advocate here and disagree with the gist of what the others have suggested :-) By leaving the drive connected to the rest of the computer, you are taking the chance of having it infected along with your system drive if you happen to pick up some sort of nasty somewhere. Another thing to consider is, if there's a lightning strike or power surge anywhere in your area that affects your PC, it could take out both of your drives, and then you'd have nothing to fall back on. My suggestion would be to buy an external USB/Firewire/eSATA device (depending on what ports you have installed on your PC), and either use the drive you have or a new one to create your images on. The only time it should be connected to your PC is when your are creating or restoring an image; other than that, it should be powered down and unplugged from the wall and the PC. Of course, that's just my opinion and the method I use, and others will have differing opinions, but that's OK. I've never lost an image yet, and can rely on it if I need it. If I was REALLY OC/AR, I'd have copies off-site like I did when I was working :-) -- SC Tom Thanks everyone for your comments. Tom That's why I posed the question because I didn't know what to do for the best. I didn't say this at the time but I also have a smaller USB hard drive which I clone using Norton Ghost from time to time. This is disconnected and stored when the ghost is complete. Still don't know what to do for the best with the 80GB drive though..... Thanks Andy As long as you have a separate backup device, then it really doesn't matter what you do with the 80GB drive. As the others said, just leave it as is :-) -- SC Tom |
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From: "Andrew Wilson"
"SC Tom" wrote in message ... "Andrew Wilson" wrote in message ... Hello Running Win XP with SP3, Exelstor and Maxter hard drives. I have a 250GB and a 80GB hard drive. I use the 80GB hard drive to clone from the 250GB hard drive every month using Norton Ghost. The 250GB drive is set to boot in the BIOS list (80GB drive not selected at all). Questions: 1) Should I disable the 80GB drive in Device Manager to avoid corruption and just enable it when I want to Norton Ghost to it? 2) If I do disable it and the 250GB drive fails completely at some point how would I enable the 80GB drive? If I selected this as the new boot drive in start up BIOS would it automatically be enabled? Many thanks Andy I'm going to play devil's advocate here and disagree with the gist of what the others have suggested :-) By leaving the drive connected to the rest of the computer, you are taking the chance of having it infected along with your system drive if you happen to pick up some sort of nasty somewhere. Another thing to consider is, if there's a lightning strike or power surge anywhere in your area that affects your PC, it could take out both of your drives, and then you'd have nothing to fall back on. My suggestion would be to buy an external USB/Firewire/eSATA device (depending on what ports you have installed on your PC), and either use the drive you have or a new one to create your images on. The only time it should be connected to your PC is when your are creating or restoring an image; other than that, it should be powered down and unplugged from the wall and the PC. Of course, that's just my opinion and the method I use, and others will have differing opinions, but that's OK. I've never lost an image yet, and can rely on it if I need it. If I was REALLY OC/AR, I'd have copies off-site like I did when I was working :-) -- SC Tom Thanks everyone for your comments. Tom That's why I posed the question because I didn't know what to do for the best. I didn't say this at the time but I also have a smaller USB hard drive which I clone using Norton Ghost from time to time. This is disconnected and stored when the ghost is complete. Still don't know what to do for the best with the 80GB drive though..... Thanks Andy Stick it in a USB enclosure. -- Dave Multi-AV Scanning Tool - http://multi-av.thespykiller.co.uk http://www.pctipp.ch/downloads/dl/35905.asp |
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On 19/07/2012 00:10, Andrew Wilson wrote:
Still don't know what to do for the best with the 80GB drive though..... Personally I would get rid of it and buy an external USB Hard disk. External HDs are getting cheaper day by day and you will do yourself justice by getting one. Alternatively, get hold of a 64GB flash drive but the but the relative price ratio to GB won't make sense to get one for the job you want to do. -- Good Guy Website: http://mytaxsite.co.uk Website: http://html-css.co.uk Forums: http://mytaxsite.boardhost.com Email: http://mytaxsite.co.uk/contact-us |
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On Thu, 19 Jul 2012 01:00:07 +0100, Good Guy
wrote: On 19/07/2012 00:10, Andrew Wilson wrote: Still don't know what to do for the best with the 80GB drive though..... Personally I would get rid of it and buy an external USB Hard disk. External HDs are getting cheaper day by day and you will do yourself justice by getting one. I'd be happy if hard drive prices would just get back to where they were before the floods. |
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From: "Char Jackson"
On Thu, 19 Jul 2012 01:00:07 +0100, Good Guy wrote: On 19/07/2012 00:10, Andrew Wilson wrote: Still don't know what to do for the best with the 80GB drive though..... Personally I would get rid of it and buy an external USB Hard disk. External HDs are getting cheaper day by day and you will do yourself justice by getting one. I'd be happy if hard drive prices would just get back to where they were before the floods. It has given a lift in the position and sale of SSD so it's not all bad. -- Dave Multi-AV Scanning Tool - http://multi-av.thespykiller.co.uk http://www.pctipp.ch/downloads/dl/35905.asp |
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On Wed, 18 Jul 2012 22:13:09 -0400, "David H. Lipman"
wrote: From: "Char Jackson" On Thu, 19 Jul 2012 01:00:07 +0100, Good Guy wrote: On 19/07/2012 00:10, Andrew Wilson wrote: Still don't know what to do for the best with the 80GB drive though..... Personally I would get rid of it and buy an external USB Hard disk. External HDs are getting cheaper day by day and you will do yourself justice by getting one. I'd be happy if hard drive prices would just get back to where they were before the floods. It has given a lift in the position and sale of SSD so it's not all bad. Every dark cloud has a silver lining. :-) |
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"David H. Lipman" wrote in message
... From: "glee" "David H. Lipman" wrote in message ... From: "Yousuf Khan" On 18/07/2012 6:37 AM, Andrew Wilson wrote: Hello Running Win XP with SP3, Exelstor and Maxter hard drives. I have a 250GB and a 80GB hard drive. I use the 80GB hard drive to clone from the 250GB hard drive every month using Norton Ghost. The 250GB drive is set to boot in the BIOS list (80GB drive not selected at all). Questions: 1) Should I disable the 80GB drive in Device Manager to avoid corruption and just enable it when I want to Norton Ghost to it? 2) If I do disable it and the 250GB drive fails completely at some point how would I enable the 80GB drive? If I selected this as the new boot drive in start up BIOS would it automatically be enabled? Many thanks Andy I'd say it would make no difference if disable to drive in Disk Manager. Just leave it enabled. I agree. Me too. I would make sure that System Restore is turned OFF for that drive, though. I'm not sure that's neccessary. Ghost image files are data files that are not subject to be in the System Restore cache. System Restore will still be writing to the drive regardless, if monitoring is on. On an old drive like this (80GB), I'd want as few unnecessary writes as possible. -- Glen Ventura MS MVP Oct. 2002 - Sept. 2009 CompTIA A+ |
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"Char Jackson" wrote in message
... On Wed, 18 Jul 2012 22:13:09 -0400, "David H. Lipman" wrote: From: "Char Jackson" On Thu, 19 Jul 2012 01:00:07 +0100, Good Guy wrote: On 19/07/2012 00:10, Andrew Wilson wrote: Still don't know what to do for the best with the 80GB drive though..... Personally I would get rid of it and buy an external USB Hard disk. External HDs are getting cheaper day by day and you will do yourself justice by getting one. I'd be happy if hard drive prices would just get back to where they were before the floods. It has given a lift in the position and sale of SSD so it's not all bad. Every dark cloud has a silver lining. :-) ...and vice versa! ;-) |
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