Replacing a hard disk

Dell sent me a new HD (Seagate ST1000DM003) under warranty and it's
marked "IMAGED" which I supposed means that it has Windows 8.1 loaded.

The original HD would sometimes not boot, so when it did. I cloned it to
a spare HD and swapped them. I have since sent the bad HD back to Dell.

Since the current HD was probably taken from a disused computer, I'm a
little leery about continuing to use it. I did clone it AND create an
image on yet another spare HD, "just in case".

Do you think I should use the new HD from Dell ASAP, or continue as I
have been doing until the current HD fails?

If you think I should use Dell's HD, what do you think of the idea of
writing the image I just made to it? This would avoid many hours of
installing s/w and restoring backups of data.

Thanks.

Alek wrote on 4/8/2015 6:44 PM:
Dell sent me a new HD (Seagate ST1000DM003) under warranty and it's
marked "IMAGED" which I supposed means that it has Windows 8.1 loaded.

The original HD would sometimes not boot, so when it did. I cloned it to
a spare HD and swapped them. I have since sent the bad HD back to Dell.

Since the current HD was probably taken from a disused computer, I'm a
little leery about continuing to use it. I did clone it AND create an
image on yet another spare HD, "just in case".

Do you think I should use the new HD from Dell ASAP, or continue as I
have been doing until the current HD fails?

If you think I should use Dell's HD, what do you think of the idea of
writing the image I just made to it? This would avoid many hours of
installing s/w and restoring backups of data.

Thanks.

Warranty! Until that runs out, I'd follow their rules.

Big_Al wrote on 4/8/2015 7:40 PM:
Alek wrote on 4/8/2015 6:44 PM:
Dell sent me a new HD (Seagate ST1000DM003) under warranty and it's
marked "IMAGED" which I supposed means that it has Windows 8.1 loaded.

The original HD would sometimes not boot, so when it did. I cloned it to
a spare HD and swapped them. I have since sent the bad HD back to Dell.

Since the current HD was probably taken from a disused computer, I'm a
little leery about continuing to use it. I did clone it AND create an
image on yet another spare HD, "just in case".

Do you think I should use the new HD from Dell ASAP, or continue as I
have been doing until the current HD fails?

If you think I should use Dell's HD, what do you think of the idea of
writing the image I just made to it? This would avoid many hours of
installing s/w and restoring backups of data.

Thanks.

Warranty! Until that runs out, I'd follow their rules.

I think you're saying you would use Dell's HD. What do you think of my
writing mine own image to that HD?

Alek wrote on 4/8/2015 7:44 PM:
Big_Al wrote on 4/8/2015 7:40 PM:
Alek wrote on 4/8/2015 6:44 PM:
Dell sent me a new HD (Seagate ST1000DM003) under warranty and it's
marked "IMAGED" which I supposed means that it has Windows 8.1 loaded.

The original HD would sometimes not boot, so when it did. I cloned it to
a spare HD and swapped them. I have since sent the bad HD back to Dell.

Since the current HD was probably taken from a disused computer, I'm a
little leery about continuing to use it. I did clone it AND create an
image on yet another spare HD, "just in case".

Do you think I should use the new HD from Dell ASAP, or continue as I
have been doing until the current HD fails?

If you think I should use Dell's HD, what do you think of the idea of
writing the image I just made to it? This would avoid many hours of
installing s/w and restoring backups of data.

Thanks.

Warranty! Until that runs out, I'd follow their rules.

I think you're saying you would use Dell's HD. What do you think of my
writing mine own image to that HD?

That might be enough to void warranty. Companies can be sticklers about that kinda stuff.

Big_Al wrote on 4/8/2015 7:46 PM:
Alek wrote on 4/8/2015 7:44 PM:
Big_Al wrote on 4/8/2015 7:40 PM:
Alek wrote on 4/8/2015 6:44 PM:
Dell sent me a new HD (Seagate ST1000DM003) under warranty and it's
marked "IMAGED" which I supposed means that it has Windows 8.1 loaded.

The original HD would sometimes not boot, so when it did. I cloned it to
a spare HD and swapped them. I have since sent the bad HD back to Dell.

Since the current HD was probably taken from a disused computer, I'm a
little leery about continuing to use it. I did clone it AND create an
image on yet another spare HD, "just in case".

Do you think I should use the new HD from Dell ASAP, or continue as I
have been doing until the current HD fails?

If you think I should use Dell's HD, what do you think of the idea of
writing the image I just made to it? This would avoid many hours of
installing s/w and restoring backups of data.

Thanks.

Warranty! Until that runs out, I'd follow their rules.

I think you're saying you would use Dell's HD. What do you think of my
writing mine own image to that HD?

That might be enough to void warranty. Companies can be sticklers about that kinda stuff.

You could always contact support since you have a ticket and ask?! The hardware is the same, so what you have in your
image/clone is runnable, drivers and all. I know where you want to go, and I don't like virgin reloads either.

Alek schreef op 9/04/2015 om 0:44:
Dell sent me a new HD (Seagate ST1000DM003) under warranty and it's
marked "IMAGED" which I supposed means that it has Windows 8.1 loaded.

The original HD would sometimes not boot, so when it did. I cloned it to
a spare HD and swapped them. I have since sent the bad HD back to Dell.

Since the current HD was probably taken from a disused computer, I'm a
little leery about continuing to use it. I did clone it AND create an
image on yet another spare HD, "just in case".

Do you think I should use the new HD from Dell ASAP, or continue as I
have been doing until the current HD fails?

If you think I should use Dell's HD, what do you think of the idea of
writing the image I just made to it? This would avoid many hours of
installing s/w and restoring backups of data.

Thanks.

I would first make an image of the full NEW harddisk (on an external
disk) and then recover your old existing image onto the new disk.



--
Carpe Diem
"Make things as simple as possible,
but not simpler" (Albert Einstein).

Carpe Diem wrote on 4/9/2015 1:14 AM:
Alek schreef op 9/04/2015 om 0:44:
Dell sent me a new HD (Seagate ST1000DM003) under warranty and it's
marked "IMAGED" which I supposed means that it has Windows 8.1 loaded.

The original HD would sometimes not boot, so when it did. I cloned it to
a spare HD and swapped them. I have since sent the bad HD back to Dell.

Since the current HD was probably taken from a disused computer, I'm a
little leery about continuing to use it. I did clone it AND create an
image on yet another spare HD, "just in case".

Do you think I should use the new HD from Dell ASAP, or continue as I
have been doing until the current HD fails?

If you think I should use Dell's HD, what do you think of the idea of
writing the image I just made to it? This would avoid many hours of
installing s/w and restoring backups of data.

Thanks.

I would first make an image of the full NEW harddisk (on an external
disk) and then recover your old existing image onto the new disk.

Interesting idea. Wonder if I have another spare HD???

Carpe Diem wrote on 4/9/2015 1:14 AM:
Alek schreef op 9/04/2015 om 0:44:
Dell sent me a new HD (Seagate ST1000DM003) under warranty and it's
marked "IMAGED" which I supposed means that it has Windows 8.1 loaded.

The original HD would sometimes not boot, so when it did. I cloned it to
a spare HD and swapped them. I have since sent the bad HD back to Dell.

Since the current HD was probably taken from a disused computer, I'm a
little leery about continuing to use it. I did clone it AND create an
image on yet another spare HD, "just in case".

Do you think I should use the new HD from Dell ASAP, or continue as I
have been doing until the current HD fails?

If you think I should use Dell's HD, what do you think of the idea of
writing the image I just made to it? This would avoid many hours of
installing s/w and restoring backups of data.

Thanks.

I would first make an image of the full NEW harddisk (on an external
disk) and then recover your old existing image onto the new disk.

I should have mentioned that Dell had previously sent me two DVDs, OS
and drivers. Would they surfice in place of making an image of the
IMAGED HD?

Alek wrote:
Carpe Diem wrote on 4/9/2015 1:14 AM:
Alek schreef op 9/04/2015 om 0:44:
Dell sent me a new HD (Seagate ST1000DM003) under warranty and it's
marked "IMAGED" which I supposed means that it has Windows 8.1 loaded.

The original HD would sometimes not boot, so when it did. I cloned it to
a spare HD and swapped them. I have since sent the bad HD back to Dell.

Since the current HD was probably taken from a disused computer, I'm a
little leery about continuing to use it. I did clone it AND create an
image on yet another spare HD, "just in case".

Do you think I should use the new HD from Dell ASAP, or continue as I
have been doing until the current HD fails?

If you think I should use Dell's HD, what do you think of the idea of
writing the image I just made to it? This would avoid many hours of
installing s/w and restoring backups of data.

Thanks.

I would first make an image of the full NEW harddisk (on an external
disk) and then recover your old existing image onto the new disk.

I should have mentioned that Dell had previously sent me two DVDs, OS
and drivers. Would they surfice in place of making an image of the
IMAGED HD?

It won't take a lot of space to image that drive from Dell.

It's a 1TB drive, but if you use imaging software, it'll
cost you 15GB for the recovery partition, maybe 20GB for the
OS partition. So 35GB of storage on some other drive, to make
an "exact copy" of the shipped Dell 1TB drive. Then if you want
some day, you can restore from your image, and put back on it,
what Dell has shipped.

What you get with the Dell warranty, is perhaps slightly better
treatment than you'd get at the hands of Seagate warranty service.
I would continue to use the Dell warranty, until it runs out.

Paul

On Thu, 09 Apr 2015 02:05:22 -0400, Alek wrote:

Carpe Diem wrote on 4/9/2015 1:14 AM:
Alek schreef op 9/04/2015 om 0:44:
Dell sent me a new HD (Seagate ST1000DM003) under warranty and it's
marked "IMAGED" which I supposed means that it has Windows 8.1 loaded.

The original HD would sometimes not boot, so when it did. I cloned it to
a spare HD and swapped them. I have since sent the bad HD back to Dell.

Since the current HD was probably taken from a disused computer, I'm a
little leery about continuing to use it. I did clone it AND create an
image on yet another spare HD, "just in case".

Do you think I should use the new HD from Dell ASAP, or continue as I
have been doing until the current HD fails?

If you think I should use Dell's HD, what do you think of the idea of
writing the image I just made to it? This would avoid many hours of
installing s/w and restoring backups of data.

Thanks.

I would first make an image of the full NEW harddisk (on an external
disk) and then recover your old existing image onto the new disk.

Interesting idea. Wonder if I have another spare HD???

Are you asking one of us to check and let you know?

--

Char Jackson

Char Jackson wrote on 4/9/2015 11:22 AM:
On Thu, 09 Apr 2015 02:05:22 -0400, Alek wrote:

Carpe Diem wrote on 4/9/2015 1:14 AM:
Alek schreef op 9/04/2015 om 0:44:
Dell sent me a new HD (Seagate ST1000DM003) under warranty and it's
marked "IMAGED" which I supposed means that it has Windows 8.1 loaded.

The original HD would sometimes not boot, so when it did. I cloned it to
a spare HD and swapped them. I have since sent the bad HD back to Dell.

Since the current HD was probably taken from a disused computer, I'm a
little leery about continuing to use it. I did clone it AND create an
image on yet another spare HD, "just in case".

Do you think I should use the new HD from Dell ASAP, or continue as I
have been doing until the current HD fails?

If you think I should use Dell's HD, what do you think of the idea of
writing the image I just made to it? This would avoid many hours of
installing s/w and restoring backups of data.

Thanks.

I would first make an image of the full NEW harddisk (on an external
disk) and then recover your old existing image onto the new disk.

Interesting idea. Wonder if I have another spare HD???

Are you asking one of us to check and let you know?

:-)

Alek wrote on 4/9/2015 1:36 PM:
Char Jackson wrote on 4/9/2015 11:22 AM:
On Thu, 09 Apr 2015 02:05:22 -0400, Alek wrote:

Carpe Diem wrote on 4/9/2015 1:14 AM:
Alek schreef op 9/04/2015 om 0:44:
Dell sent me a new HD (Seagate ST1000DM003) under warranty and it's
marked "IMAGED" which I supposed means that it has Windows 8.1 loaded.

The original HD would sometimes not boot, so when it did. I cloned it to
a spare HD and swapped them. I have since sent the bad HD back to Dell.

Since the current HD was probably taken from a disused computer, I'm a
little leery about continuing to use it. I did clone it AND create an
image on yet another spare HD, "just in case".

Do you think I should use the new HD from Dell ASAP, or continue as I
have been doing until the current HD fails?

If you think I should use Dell's HD, what do you think of the idea of
writing the image I just made to it? This would avoid many hours of
installing s/w and restoring backups of data.

Thanks.

I would first make an image of the full NEW harddisk (on an external
disk) and then recover your old existing image onto the new disk.

Interesting idea. Wonder if I have another spare HD???

Are you asking one of us to check and let you know?

:-)

Are you cloning??? Why??? Just make an image. It takes less space and on a good HD you can probably put several
images. Images are just as good as a clone. Yes I know the diff. But I can restore an HD from an image too, I
just don't have to use a screwdriver to do it.

Paul wrote on 4/9/2015 3:20 AM:
Alek wrote:
Carpe Diem wrote on 4/9/2015 1:14 AM:
Alek schreef op 9/04/2015 om 0:44:
Dell sent me a new HD (Seagate ST1000DM003) under warranty and it's
marked "IMAGED" which I supposed means that it has Windows 8.1 loaded.

The original HD would sometimes not boot, so when it did. I cloned it to
a spare HD and swapped them. I have since sent the bad HD back to Dell.

Since the current HD was probably taken from a disused computer, I'm a
little leery about continuing to use it. I did clone it AND create an
image on yet another spare HD, "just in case".

Do you think I should use the new HD from Dell ASAP, or continue as I
have been doing until the current HD fails?

If you think I should use Dell's HD, what do you think of the idea of
writing the image I just made to it? This would avoid many hours of
installing s/w and restoring backups of data.

Thanks.

I would first make an image of the full NEW harddisk (on an external
disk) and then recover your old existing image onto the new disk.

I should have mentioned that Dell had previously sent me two DVDs, OS
and drivers. Would they suffice in place of making an image of the
IMAGED HD?

It won't take a lot of space to image that drive from Dell.

It's a 1TB drive, but if you use imaging software, it'll
cost you 15GB for the recovery partition, maybe 20GB for the
OS partition. So 35GB of storage on some other drive, to make
an "exact copy" of the shipped Dell 1TB drive. Then if you want
some day, you can restore from your image, and put back on it,
what Dell has shipped.

It has four partitions:

1) 500 MB EFI System Partition
2) 40 MB OEM Partition
3) 750 MB Recovery Partition
4) 930.13 GB NTFS OS (E Primary Partition -- 18 GB Used

Do I need to image each one separately????

Do I need 18 GB + .75 GB + .50 GB + .04 GB ~ 20 GB total????

Thanks.

Big_Al wrote on 4/9/2015 1:43 PM:
Alek wrote on 4/9/2015 1:36 PM:
Char Jackson wrote on 4/9/2015 11:22 AM:
On Thu, 09 Apr 2015 02:05:22 -0400, Alek wrote:

Carpe Diem wrote on 4/9/2015 1:14 AM:
Alek schreef op 9/04/2015 om 0:44:
Dell sent me a new HD (Seagate ST1000DM003) under warranty and it's
marked "IMAGED" which I supposed means that it has Windows 8.1 loaded.

The original HD would sometimes not boot, so when it did. I cloned it to
a spare HD and swapped them. I have since sent the bad HD back to Dell.

Since the current HD was probably taken from a disused computer, I'm a
little leery about continuing to use it. I did clone it AND create an
image on yet another spare HD, "just in case".

Do you think I should use the new HD from Dell ASAP, or continue as I
have been doing until the current HD fails?

If you think I should use Dell's HD, what do you think of the idea of
writing the image I just made to it? This would avoid many hours of
installing s/w and restoring backups of data.

Thanks.

I would first make an image of the full NEW harddisk (on an external
disk) and then recover your old existing image onto the new disk.

Interesting idea. Wonder if I have another spare HD???

Are you asking one of us to check and let you know?

:-)

Are you cloning??? Why??? Just make an image. It takes less space and on a good HD you can probably put several
images. Images are just as good as a clone. Yes I know the diff. But I can restore an HD from an image too, I
just don't have to use a screwdriver to do it.

If I have an HD that is a clone, all I need to do is physically replace
the bad drive with the clone.

If I use an image, I have to replace the bad drive with a spare, boot to
some rescue CD, connect the drive that contains the image, and "restore"
the image to the spare drive. Seems like a lot of extra work.

On Thu, 09 Apr 2015 13:51:38 -0400, Alek wrote:

Big_Al wrote on 4/9/2015 1:43 PM:
Alek wrote on 4/9/2015 1:36 PM:
Char Jackson wrote on 4/9/2015 11:22 AM:
On Thu, 09 Apr 2015 02:05:22 -0400, Alek wrote:

Carpe Diem wrote on 4/9/2015 1:14 AM:
Alek schreef op 9/04/2015 om 0:44:

[...]

Are you cloning??? Why??? Just make an image. It takes less space and on a good HD you can probably put several
images. Images are just as good as a clone. Yes I know the diff. But I can restore an HD from an image too, I
just don't have to use a screwdriver to do it.

If I have an HD that is a clone, all I need to do is physically replace
the bad drive with the clone.

If I use an image, I have to replace the bad drive with a spare, boot to
some rescue CD, connect the drive that contains the image, and "restore"
the image to the spare drive. Seems like a lot of extra work.

It is, but how often do you do that extra work?

There are advantages to imaging. If you prefer it for those advantages,
it'll still save your butt if the need arises.

It's pretty much up to each individual to do what he or she prefers.

--
Gene E. Bloch (Stumbling Bloch)