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On Mon, 19 Jan 2009 18:57:24 -0500, WaIIy wrote:
On Mon, 19 Jan 2009 11:52:40 -0600, Richie Hardwick wrote: On Mon, 19 Jan 2009 11:49:53 -0500, WaIIy wrote: Casper works best if it can clone to a second internal drive. If the clone is made on an external drive, and a restoration is required, there is a problem: one will need a bootable CD with Casper on it and that will cost an additional $10 in addition to the $50 purchase price of the program. I bought a sata/usb enclosure and put a Seagate drive in it. I am currently backing up using usb with the enclosure. http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16817173042 I can take the drive, replace my current C drive and it boots normally. Of course it will. I can even hook the enclosure sata cable to my C drive sata connector and boot from the external drive. Of course it will. In both cases, your drive then becomes an internal drive. Try doing that without installing the drive to internal connectors. Yes, but you didn't make yourself clear in what you wrote. "External" and "Internal" aren't defined by the physical location of the drive, but by the connection to the computer. Can't help it if you're not up to speed on even the simplest of technical terms. Norman -- If people concentrated on the really important things of life, there'd be a shortage of fishing poles. Doug Larson |
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"WaIIy" wrote in message ... (SNIP) I don't have an eSata connection, thanks for the suggestion, though. Wally: In your original post (I think it was your first one) re this thread you stated (in part) the following... "I then went to external sata, but was getting a missing drive error when external was shut off. Not a big deal, but I wanted things clean. Since the enclosure I bought was usb and also sata, I opted to go with the usb option so I could easily turn off the external drive." So you apparently have a SATA-USB external enclosure that has SATA-to-SATA connectivity capability, right? So I responded with the following... "Now about the problem you experienced with your external SATA HDD... It would really be worthwhile if there was some practical way to achieve SATA-to-SATA capability between the external SATA HDD and your Dell 8400. Obviously that desktop machine is not equipped (insofar as I know) with an eSATA port, so that type of connectivity wouldn't be available. But if it was possible to affix a simple eSATA adapter (they run around $10 or so) to a vacant backplane slot on the case and achieve SATA-to-SATA connectivity that way (the SATA data cable affixed to the adapter is simply connected to one of the motherboard's SATA connectors), it would be much more desirable than using a USBEHD to serve as the destination drive, i.e., the recipient of the cloned (boot) HDD. For two reasons... 1. The data transfer rate would be significantly faster, and, 2. The external SATA HDD would be potentially bootable since it would contain the cloned contents of your boot drive. Under these circumstances the system treats the external SATA HDD as an *internal* HDD. (Another possibility if you're so inclined is to simply run the SATA signal (data) cable from the SATA enclosure (I'm assuming it's a eSATA port) *directly* to a vacant SATA connector on the motherboard (I believe there are four SATA connectors on the system board, yes?). So you would need a SATA data cable with a SATA connector on one end and an eSATA connector on the other end.) (EDIT: Re my following comment...I was assuming that the problem you related was based on a SATA-to-SATA connection between your external HDD enclosure and your PC. But I have come to realize this might not have been the case. So the following may not at all be relevant to your situation)... I think the problem you have experienced with the failure of the system to detect the external SATA HDD may be a "hot-plugging" issue. If you connect and power-up the device *prior to* booting to the OS, there's no problem with the system recognizing the external SATA HDD. Is that right? However if the connection/powering up the SATA external HDD occurs *following* bootup it's then you experience the non-recognition problem, right? If this is the case, there's probably a simple solution. Access Device Manager, and right-click on "Disk drives", then click on the "Scan for hardware changes" menu item. The drive should then be detected and listed in the "Disk drives" section. Anna" And I might mention in addition to the above that many, if not most, of the SATA external enclosures now include such an adapter as I indicated above. Anyway, the point is you do not *need* an eSATA port to achieve SATA-to-SATA connectivity (although it's a most desirable feature that I wish was included on *every* desktop motherboard). I wasn't sure from your last post that you understand this. As I explained above, it's really a significant advantage for a desktop PC user to have this type of capability if at all practical for him or her. (Laptop/notebook users can also avail themselves of this feature through an eSATA ExpressCard.) Anna |
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"WaIIy" wrote in message . .. (SNIP) I don't have an eSata connection, thanks for the suggestion, though. Wally: "Now about the problem you experienced with your external SATA HDD... It would really be worthwhile if there was some practical way to achieve SATA-to-SATA capability between the external SATA HDD and your Dell 8400. Obviously that desktop machine is not equipped (insofar as I know) with an eSATA port, so that type of connectivity wouldn't be available. But if it was possible to affix a simple eSATA adapter (they run around $10 or so) to a vacant backplane slot on the case and achieve SATA-to-SATA connectivity that way (the SATA data cable affixed to the adapter is simply connected to one of the motherboard's SATA connectors), it would be much more desirable than using a USBEHD to serve as the destination drive, i.e., the recipient of the cloned (boot) HDD. For two reasons... 1. The data transfer rate would be significantly faster, and, 2. The external SATA HDD would be potentially bootable since it would contain the cloned contents of your boot drive. Under these circumstances the system treats the external SATA HDD as an *internal* HDD. Wally responds... I can do that. If I connect my enclosure to the external connector I put on the back of my computer, I can boot and run off the external. I switched the external sata cable inside my computer to the original C drive plug. Haven't tried any other way. On Mon, 19 Jan 2009 22:43:59 -0500, "Anna" wrote: (Another possibility if you're so inclined is to simply run the SATA signal (data) cable from the SATA enclosure (I'm assuming it's a eSATA port) *directly* to a vacant SATA connector on the motherboard (I believe there are four SATA connectors on the system board, yes?). So you would need a SATA data cable with a SATA connector on one end and an eSATA connector on the other end.) (EDIT: Re my following comment...I was assuming that the problem you related was based on a SATA-to-SATA connection between your external HDD enclosure and your PC. But I have come to realize this might not have been the case. So the following may not at all be relevant to your situation)... I think the problem you have experienced with the failure of the system to detect the external SATA HDD may be a "hot-plugging" issue. If you connect and power-up the device *prior to* booting to the OS, there's no problem with the system recognizing the external SATA HDD. Is that right? However if the connection/powering up the SATA external HDD occurs *following* bootup it's then you experience the non-recognition problem, right? If this is the case, there's probably a simple solution. Access Device Manager, and right-click on "Disk drives", then click on the "Scan for hardware changes" menu item. The drive should then be detected and listed in the "Disk drives" section. Anna" And I might mention in addition to the above that many, if not most, of the SATA external enclosures now include such an adapter as I indicated above. Anyway, the point is you do not *need* an eSATA port to achieve SATA-to- SATA connectivity (although it's a most desirable feature that I wish was included on *every* desktop motherboard). I wasn't sure from your last post that you understand this. As I explained above, it's really a significant advantage for a desktop PC user to have this type of capability if at all practical for him or her. (Laptop/notebook users can also avail themselves of this feature through an eSATA ExpressCard.) Anna "WaIIy" wrote in message ... The usb takes about the same time as a direct sata connection. I don't know why. The problem is the bios error on boot with the external sata drive turned off. It's looking for something on the port and it stops the computer and asks me to push F-1 to proceed or F-2 to go to the bios. I have to turn off the external port in the bios to not get the error. Odd, though. My bios tells me the default setting is to have them all enabled. Wally: As far as the USB & SATA-to-SATA connections result in roughly the same data transfer rate in your experience could be due to the amount of data being copied/transferred. If it's not a very substantial amount of data that's involved then it's reasonable to assume there won't be too great of a difference between the two types of devices re data transfer rates. And sometimes it's simply due to the construction of the enclosure that has both capabilities. But generally speaking a SATA-to-SATA data transfer rate is faster than a USB transfer. At least based on our experience. Your "bios error" may be due to the fact that you've connected the external SATA HDD to your first SATA connector (either labeled SATA0 or SATA1 depending upon the system board). Your day-to-day internal SATA boot drive should ordinarily be connected to the first SATA connector on the system board. I don't know if that's the cause of the problem you're experiencing but I thought I'd mention it as a possibility. Anyway, check your boot priority order in the BIOS to determine that the settings seem correct there. Anna |
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WaIIy wrote:
On Mon, 19 Jan 2009 19:25:09 -0500, "Anna" wrote: WaIIy wrote: (SNIP) I don't think you can make a bootable clone to a partition on the destination disk. I admit I could be wrong about that. For one thing, the partiton has to be active to be bootable and you can only have one active partition on a disk AFAIK. "Bill in Co." wrote in message ... Well, maybe Anna can weigh in on this. I assume Casper has some way of keeping the destination drive partition marked active and yet its not being a problem, IF that drive is being used as the destination drive. Wally: Bill is absolutely correct. There's no problem using the Casper 5 program to clone the contents of one's booting HDD (the "source" HDD) to a *partition* on the destination HDD, i.e., the recipient of the clone. Taking the example where a user's destination HDD is a USB external HDD... snip Well, after reading this more times, I comprehend what you're saying. I'm surprised I can clone my C drive that has three partitions to one of three partitions on a second drive. Live and learn - Thanks for taking the time to explain all this. Wally I think you meant above that you can clone A partition on your C drive over to a (cloned) partition on the second drive. |
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WaIIy wrote:
On Mon, 19 Jan 2009 19:25:09 -0500, "Anna" wrote: WaIIy wrote: (SNIP) I don't think you can make a bootable clone to a partition on the destination disk. I admit I could be wrong about that. For one thing, the partiton has to be active to be bootable and you can only have one active partition on a disk AFAIK. "Bill in Co." wrote in message ... Well, maybe Anna can weigh in on this. I assume Casper has some way of keeping the destination drive partition marked active and yet its not being a problem, IF that drive is being used as the destination drive. Wally: Bill is absolutely correct. There's no problem using the Casper 5 program to clone the contents of one's booting HDD (the "source" HDD) to a *partition* on the destination HDD, i.e., the recipient of the clone. Taking the example where a user's destination HDD is a USB external HDD... Let's say the user (for one reason or another) divides his/her USBEHD into five partitions. He or she could then clone the contents of their "source" HDD to *any* partition on that USBEHD that the user desired. (This naturally assumes the partition is sufficient in size to hold the cloned contents). There would be *no* need to "mark active" the destination partition in any way. When I go to clone C to H (my external), Casper tells me all the data on the drive will be erased. Also, Casper (not me) marks my drive "Active". The drive was not marked Active before I did the clone. My C drive is marked "Healthy (System)" and H is "Healthy (Active)" Again, I did not have my H drive active, Casper did it. Should the user clone the contents of *any* partition on that USBEHD containing a bootable clone to their internal source HDD for restoration purposes, i.e., the source HDD had failed or the user's OS became corrupted & dysfunctional, that HDD would become bootable & functional without any further ado. It's as simple as that. If, on the other hand the user is interested in maintaining "generational" copies of his or her system at particular points in time this can also be accomplished using the Casper program. One can multi-partition their USBEHD into as many partitions as they think they will need to hold the contents of their source HDD at various points-in-time. Obviously the size of the destination drive and the estimated amount of the cloned contents throughout the period of time would be decisive factors in determining how may partitions can the user create on that destination drive. So *any* of the partitions on the USBEHD could be simply cloned to an internal HDD for restoration purposes. The scenario is slightly different should the destination HDD be another *internal* HDD or a *external* SATA HDD having SATA-to-SATA capability (as I explained in my previous post to Wally) and the user has *multi-partitioned* that drive. As we know, the system treats that latter HDD as an *internal* HDD. The ordinary scenario, of course, is simply where the user clones the contents of his or her source HDD (it's immaterial whether the source HDD contains a single partition or is multi-partitioned) to their internal HDD. Since the destination HDD will thus be a precise copy of the source HDD, it will be immediately bootable & functional in exactly the same manner as the user's source HDD. No "restore" or "recovery" process is necessary. But let's take another example in which the user also multi-partitions his or her *internal* destination HDD. Because that destination HDD is a potentially *bootable* device, the user can clone the contents of his/her source HDD to *any* of the partitions on the destination drive and any primary partition can be selected as the "active" partition and thus be selected as the boot drive. Continuing the example, say that the user is interested in maintaining "generational" copies of his or her system at particular points in time. So he or she multi-partitions their destination HDD (again we're talking about either another internal HDD or a SATA-to-SATA connected *external* HDD) into 10 partitions. Thereafter the user clones their source disk to each partition at different points-in-time. (Obviously the size of the destination drive and the estimated amount of cloned contents would be a factor in determining how may partitions can the user create on that destination drive). So we'll say that on 1/15 the cloned contents of the source system resides on partition #1. On 1/20 the clone "goes" to partition #2. On 1/25 partition #3, and so on... Should the user subsequently need to restore his/her system with any of the primary partitions (the first three partitions on the disk) he or she can do so by marking the particular partition as the "active" partition. This would be done either through Disk Management or should DM was inaccessible, then by the bootable Casper "Startup Disk" (CD). Naturally, if the cloned contents resided on a Logical Drive (within an extended partition) one could not designate that partition as active. In that situation the contents of a Logical Drive would need to be cloned to a Primary Partition and then made active. But note that if the contents of the Logical Drive were cloned to *another* (internal) HDD, those contents, i.e., that partition, would automatically be designated active and the internal HDD would be completely bootable & functional. Again, no special "restore" or "recovery" process need be undertaken other than a simple partition-to-disk-cloning operation. Generally speaking, we believe that where a user's prime interest is in maintaining "generational" copies of his or her system it's probably more practical to use a disk-imaging program such as Acronis True Image, Symantec's Ghost, or others. Although it is entirely possible to use the Casper 5 program for this purpose as explained above. Anna I'm very confused. I think you are saying I can clone my C drive to a partition on another drive. I didn't think I could do that. Let's say my C drive has three partitions. I don't think you can clone that to one partition on another drive. Doesn't make sense to me. My understanding is a CLONE wipes out the destination drive. I guess I need to understand when you mean COPY and when you mean CLONE in your descriptions above. or, I'm just confused Think of partition cloning as making an exact copy of the source drive's partition on the destination drive. Like if your source drive has C and D partitions, and you clone just the C partition, that one, and that one alone, will be copied to the destination drive. OR If you clone the entire drive, ALL partitions on the source drive are copied over to the second drive, and in that case (unless I'm mistaken here), you're right - the destination drive will have whatever was previously stored on it, wiped out. |
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Anna wrote:
"WaIIy" wrote in message ... (SNIP) I don't have an eSata connection, thanks for the suggestion, though. Wally: "Now about the problem you experienced with your external SATA HDD... It would really be worthwhile if there was some practical way to achieve SATA-to-SATA capability between the external SATA HDD and your Dell 8400. Obviously that desktop machine is not equipped (insofar as I know) with an eSATA port, so that type of connectivity wouldn't be available. But if it was possible to affix a simple eSATA adapter (they run around $10 or so) to a vacant backplane slot on the case and achieve SATA-to-SATA connectivity that way (the SATA data cable affixed to the adapter is simply connected to one of the motherboard's SATA connectors), it would be much more desirable than using a USBEHD to serve as the destination drive, i.e., the recipient of the cloned (boot) HDD. For two reasons... 1. The data transfer rate would be significantly faster, and, 2. The external SATA HDD would be potentially bootable since it would contain the cloned contents of your boot drive. Under these circumstances the system treats the external SATA HDD as an *internal* HDD. Wally responds... I can do that. If I connect my enclosure to the external connector I put on the back of my computer, I can boot and run off the external. I switched the external sata cable inside my computer to the original C drive plug. Haven't tried any other way. On Mon, 19 Jan 2009 22:43:59 -0500, "Anna" wrote: (Another possibility if you're so inclined is to simply run the SATA signal (data) cable from the SATA enclosure (I'm assuming it's a eSATA port) *directly* to a vacant SATA connector on the motherboard (I believe there are four SATA connectors on the system board, yes?). So you would need a SATA data cable with a SATA connector on one end and an eSATA connector on the other end.) (EDIT: Re my following comment...I was assuming that the problem you related was based on a SATA-to-SATA connection between your external HDD enclosure and your PC. But I have come to realize this might not have been the case. So the following may not at all be relevant to your situation)... I think the problem you have experienced with the failure of the system to detect the external SATA HDD may be a "hot-plugging" issue. If you connect and power-up the device *prior to* booting to the OS, there's no problem with the system recognizing the external SATA HDD. Is that right? However if the connection/powering up the SATA external HDD occurs *following* bootup it's then you experience the non-recognition problem, right? If this is the case, there's probably a simple solution. Access Device Manager, and right-click on "Disk drives", then click on the "Scan for hardware changes" menu item. The drive should then be detected and listed in the "Disk drives" section. Anna" And I might mention in addition to the above that many, if not most, of the SATA external enclosures now include such an adapter as I indicated above. Anyway, the point is you do not *need* an eSATA port to achieve SATA-to- SATA connectivity (although it's a most desirable feature that I wish was included on *every* desktop motherboard). I wasn't sure from your last post that you understand this. As I explained above, it's really a significant advantage for a desktop PC user to have this type of capability if at all practical for him or her. (Laptop/notebook users can also avail themselves of this feature through an eSATA ExpressCard.) Anna "WaIIy" wrote in message ... The usb takes about the same time as a direct sata connection. I don't know why. The problem is the bios error on boot with the external sata drive turned off. It's looking for something on the port and it stops the computer and asks me to push F-1 to proceed or F-2 to go to the bios. I have to turn off the external port in the bios to not get the error. Odd, though. My bios tells me the default setting is to have them all enabled. Wally: As far as the USB & SATA-to-SATA connections result in roughly the same data transfer rate in your experience could be due to the amount of data being copied/transferred. If it's not a very substantial amount of data that's involved then it's reasonable to assume there won't be too great of a difference between the two types of devices re data transfer rates. And sometimes it's simply due to the construction of the enclosure that has both capabilities. But generally speaking a SATA-to-SATA data transfer rate is faster than a USB transfer. At least based on our experience. And roughly twice as fast, as I recall?? I guess the USB2 vs SATA specs could give some idea; however that assumes the hardware is operating at the spec limits. I *do* know that using my internal SATA to SATA transfer is a LOT faster than when I was using the USBEXT drive. ike around twice as fast, as I recall. I probably should recall better, since I've done several such transfers, but it's been awhile since I was using the USBEXT hard drive enclosure, due to the HUGE difference in speed - and convenience. |
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"WaIIy" wrote in message ... I'm very confused. I think you are saying I can clone my C drive to a partition on another drive. I didn't think I could do that. Let's say my C drive has three partitions. I don't think you can clone that to one partition on another drive. Doesn't make sense to me. My understanding is a CLONE wipes out the destination drive. I guess I need to understand when you mean COPY and when you mean CLONE in your descriptions above. or, I'm just confused Wally: Yes, as I've tried to explain, Casper 5 does have the capability of doing exactly that. You can set up as many partitions as you desire on your destination drive - say a USB external HDD - and clone those three partitions (presumably encompassing the entire source disk, yes?) to *any* partition that you set up on your destination HDD. The *only* requirement is that the destination partition is, of course, sufficient in size to hold the contents of your source HDD, i.e., the three partitions. In other words you're cloning the disk containing the three partitions to a single partition on the destination drive if that's what you want. The remaining partitions on the destination drive can then be used for *any* purpose you want. On the other hand, if you wanted to clone *individual* partitions on the source disk to a particular partition on the destination drive you could also do that. It would simply be a partition-to-partition clone. Hope I've made this clear. Anna |
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Anna wrote:
"WaIIy" wrote in message ... I'm very confused. I think you are saying I can clone my C drive to a partition on another drive. I didn't think I could do that. Let's say my C drive has three partitions. I don't think you can clone that to one partition on another drive. Doesn't make sense to me. My understanding is a CLONE wipes out the destination drive. I guess I need to understand when you mean COPY and when you mean CLONE in your descriptions above. or, I'm just confused Wally: Yes, as I've tried to explain, Casper 5 does have the capability of doing exactly that. You can set up as many partitions as you desire on your destination drive - say a USB external HDD - and clone those three partitions (presumably encompassing the entire source disk, yes?) to *any* partition that you set up on your destination HDD. The *only* requirement is that the destination partition is, of course, sufficient in size to hold the contents of your source HDD, i.e., the three partitions. In other words you're cloning the disk containing the three partitions to a single partition on the destination drive if that's what you want. The remaining partitions on the destination drive can then be used for *any* purpose you want. On the other hand, if you wanted to clone *individual* partitions on the source disk to a particular partition on the destination drive you could also do that. It would simply be a partition-to-partition clone. Hope I've made this clear. Anna Well then it appears I didn't understand it fully. I was under the impression you could EITHER do a partition-by-partition cloning operation, OR clone the entire HD with or without several partitions over the destination disk. And NOT that you could clone, for example 5 individual source drive partitions over to a SINGLE partition on the destination drive, UNLESS that one is just a big logical one that incorporates the five partitions - but it's still really 5 partitions on the destination drive that were effectively cloned, and not just one, and each would presumably have a different drive letter assoicated with it. Or maybe it depends on how you look at it. |
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Anna writes... Wally: Bill is absolutely correct. There's no problem using the Casper 5 program to clone the contents of one's booting HDD (the "source" HDD) to a *partition* on the destination HDD, i.e., the recipient of the clone. Taking the example where a user's destination HDD is a USB external HDD... WaIIy wrote: Well, after reading this more times, I comprehend what you're saying. I'm surprised I can clone my C drive that has three partitions to one of three partitions on a second drive. Live and learn - Thanks for taking the time to explain all this. Wally "Bill in Co." wrote in message ... I think you meant above that you can clone A partition on your C drive over to a (cloned) partition on the second drive. "Bill in Co." wrote in message ... Think of partition cloning as making an exact copy of the source drive's partition on the destination drive. Like if your source drive has C and D partitions, and you clone just the C partition, that one, and that one alone, will be copied to the destination drive. OR If you clone the entire drive, ALL partitions on the source drive are copied over to the second drive, and in that case (unless I'm mistaken here), you're right - the destination drive will have whatever was previously stored on it, wiped out. Bill: Just to slightly amend your last paragraph which may be a bit misleading to some... Let's say the user has multi-partitioned his or her destination drive - say, for example with five partitions. Using Casper 5 the user could clone the contents of his or her source HDD (whether a single partition or more than one partition) to *any* particular partition on the destination HDD he or she desires. ONLY if *that* destination partition contained previous contents would those contents be "wiped out". NONE of the other partitions on the destination HDD would be affected in *any* way. The same basic scenario would hold true should the user desire to clone only a single partition on his multi-partitioned source HDD. The user could clone that partition to *any* partition on the destination HDD on *only* that destination partition would be affected by the clone, i.e., prior contents would be deleted. Again, the other partitions on that multi-partitioned destination would *not* be affected in any way. I think you're aware of all this but I wanted to make it clear to others. Anna |
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Good thought, I double checked that. My C Drive is on connection 1, internal on connection 2 and my external SATA was on connection 3 (They show up as Disks 0-1-2 in Windows). Your "external SATA" can only be truly "external" if it's connected to an external port. It's not. So it's not external. |
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On Tue, 20 Jan 2009 17:47:47 -0500, WaIIy wrote:
On Tue, 20 Jan 2009 16:40:33 -0600, Frank Holman wrote: WaIIy wrote: Good thought, I double checked that. My C Drive is on connection 1, internal on connection 2 and my external SATA was on connection 3 (They show up as Disks 0-1-2 in Windows). Your "external SATA" can only be truly "external" if it's connected to an external port. It's not. So it's not external. I guess I'll just shove in into my case somewhere then. (I can't pass this up) If it won't fit, I can suggest an alternative place where you can shove it ;- Richie Hardwick |
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On Tue, 20 Jan 2009 18:37:18 -0500, WaIIy wrote:
On Tue, 20 Jan 2009 17:06:22 -0600, Richie Hardwick wrote: On Tue, 20 Jan 2009 17:47:47 -0500, WaIIy wrote: On Tue, 20 Jan 2009 16:40:33 -0600, Frank Holman wrote: WaIIy wrote: Good thought, I double checked that. My C Drive is on connection 1, internal on connection 2 and my external SATA was on connection 3 (They show up as Disks 0-1-2 in Windows). Your "external SATA" can only be truly "external" if it's connected to an external port. It's not. So it's not external. I guess I'll just shove in into my case somewhere then. (I can't pass this up) If it won't fit, I can suggest an alternative place where you can shove it ;- Richie Hardwick Good one, I have to be more careful Fo' sho'! |
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"Frank Holman" wrote in message ... WaIIy wrote: Good thought, I double checked that. My C Drive is on connection 1, internal on connection 2 and my external SATA was on connection 3 (They show up as Disks 0-1-2 in Windows). Your "external SATA" can only be truly "external" if it's connected to an external port. It's not. So it's not external. Frank: That is simply not so. As I explained in a previous post, the signal (data) cable of the external SATA HDD can be connected *directly* to one of the motherboard's SATA connectors. It doesn't have to be an "external" port. We do this all the time. Presumably the external SATA HDD will be powered by an auxiliary PSU. But even here we can use the PC's power supply if necessary through an appropriate adapter. This hardware configuration is very simple to install. Naturally this SATA-to-SATA connectivity is facilitated should the motherboard have an eSATA port, or the desktop's case contain a SATA or eSATA port, or a SATA adapter can be affixed to the backplane of the desktop PC case. Naturally we're talking desktop PCs here. In the case of a laptop/notebook an ExpressCard with eSATA capability can be used to make the SATA-to-SATA connection. Anna |
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How to use Acronis to backup o/s ?
Richie Hardwick wrote:
On Tue, 20 Jan 2009 15:11:29 -0700, "Bill in Co." wrote: Well then it appears I didn't understand it fully. In this world nothing is certain but death, taxes and Bill's inability to ever fully understand Casper. Richie Hardwick Haven't used it. But I *have* used Partition Magic, Boot It NG, and Acronis True Image, unlike some here, which gives me a different perspective. |
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