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Instructions (online?) for transfering system to new HD
I have a very old (1998) desktop which I hardly ever use anymore.
Still, I want to transfer the system and programs from a 20 GB HD to a 160 GB HD. Can someone point me to good online instructions on how to do so? Also, instructions on finding out whether my existing hardware/software can handle the size and speed (7200)of the new HD. Thanks. WinXP 2002 SP3, Intel Celeron 334 MHz, 256 MB RAM |
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Instructions (online?) for transfering system to new HD
From: "Dudley Brooks"
I have a very old (1998) desktop which I hardly ever use anymore. Still, I want to transfer the system and programs from a 20 GB HD to a 160 GB HD. Can someone point me to good online instructions on how to do so? Also, instructions on finding out whether my existing hardware/software can handle the size and speed (7200)of the new HD. Thanks. WinXP 2002 SP3, Intel Celeron 334 MHz, 256 MB RAM Just clone the old hard disk to the new hard disk. What will matter however is if you are using XP SP3 (for 137GB) as well as thye BIOS of this 1998 desktop can work with a hard disk 137GB. But I'll tell you. The fact that it is a old Celeron with ONLY .25GB, don't waste your time on this. If you are goin to upgrade the system, go to at least 1GB and a 120GB hard disk. -- Dave Multi-AV Scanning Tool - http://multi-av.thespykiller.co.uk http://www.pctipp.ch/downloads/dl/35905.asp |
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Instructions (online?) for transfering system to new HD
Dudley Brooks wrote:
I have a very old (1998) desktop which I hardly ever use anymore. Still, I want to transfer the system and programs from a 20 GB HD to a 160 GB HD. Can someone point me to good online instructions on how to do so? Also, instructions on finding out whether my existing hardware/software can handle the size and speed (7200)of the new HD. Thanks. WinXP 2002 SP3, Intel Celeron 334 MHz, 256 MB RAM The general point at which IDE interfaces supported 137GB, was hardware from the year 2003 (or more modern). The SP3 service pack, provides the support from the OS side, but there are still hardware issues to consider. ******* So you might want to check whether your hardware supports 48 bit LBA or not first. In a limited number of cases, there is information online about whether it's true or not. (Note - do *not* pay some joker, for a 48 bit LBA checking program... Waste of money.) (Really old motherboards... 32GB limited designs, patched around.) http://web.inter.nl.net/hcc/J.Steunebrink/k6plus.htm (Some old Asus motherboards, and 32/64/128GiB limits. 128GiB = 137GB decimal "Uber 128GB" means "Up to 137GB drive, as specified by manufacturer".) http://web.archive.org/web/201005020...gb_ide_hdd.htm (The magic of the year 2003. 137GB support after that date. Selective support via BIOS update.) http://support.asus.com.tw/technical...e=en-us&NO=501 (The Seagate doc, is no longer on their site, but is available from the archive. This is good for understanding your options, including adding a PCI IDE card. I had to read this document *many times*, before it gradually began to make sense. They try to overwhelm you with info.) http://web.archive.org/web/200701210...c/tp/137gb.pdf ******* One fix for that, is to purchase an IDE controller card. Such as the (now extinct) Promise Ultra133 TX2 card. There are still PCI IDE cards for sale, but you should read the reviews to determine how easy they are to use. If they're ATA6 standard or later, then they handle 48bit LBA, and drives of 137GB capacity. A 160GB drive, is slightly larger than 137GB. **** (This is a SIL0680 based card, 133 speed implies 48 bit LBA. Some of these old cards, you play around with firmware... In fact, that's endemic to adding storage cards to computers, a right PITA.) http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16815104214 http://www.koutech.com/proddetail.asp?linenumber=105 **** (This one is VT6421a based, and has one IDE connector. It also has two SATA connectors. Usually, VIA has good "old OS" support, but figuring out what driver to use, is a challenge.) http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16815124022 The VT6421a is SATA I compliant. You can "jumper down" a SATA II drive and connect it to the SATA port. (Seagate SATA drives have a four pin jumper area. Force150 jumper is available there.) As I understand it, a SATA III hard drive, may not work with those connectors, as SATA III can only be jumpered down to SATA II (mistake), while the autodetection bug in VIA silicon won't automatically negotiate SATA I rates. In summary, while that card has SATA connectors, there are issues with them. VIA does make at least one chip with that issue fixed, and there is one other poster here, who has a table of which chips are fixed. I don't have the info. **** You can still use a 160GB drive, even on a 137GB limited system. What you'd do, is avoid creating partitions, between the 137GB and 160GB points. Effectively wasting a tiny bit of space at the end. That's cheaper than having to buy a PCI IDE card as well. ******* To use a PCI IDE card, you would: 1) Shut down, install PCI IDE card. Leave the original drive connected to the motherboard. 2) Boot up, insert the CD that comes with the PCI IDE card. Install a driver. Open device manager (start:run: devmgmt.msc) and verify there are no yellow marks, and everything is happy. Now, the OS you're about to clone, has a driver which allows usage of the new IDE card. 3) Shut down, connect new drive to PCI IDE card connector. Set drive to Master (or Cable Select). Connect drive to the end connector of the cable. Boot up. Check disk management (start:run: diskmgmt.msc) and see if a new, blank disk is present. It may have a partition on it already, from the factory. Delete the partition on the new disk, if you're going to clone. 4) Now, you could try Macrium Reflect Free, as I think it supports cloning. It should be able to do that "live", while WinXP is running. http://www.macrium.com/reflectfree.aspx Alternately, go to the Seagate or WDC sites and get a copy of Acronis software they provide for free. Use the software, to clone the old disk, to the new disk. 5) Important. At this point (cloning complete), you have the old low capacity disk connected to the motherboard. And the new high capacity disk, connected to the PCI IDE card. With the power off, *unplug* the old IDE drive from its motherboard connector. Now, when the computer next boots, only the new disk is connected. Enter the BIOS, and set the boot option. As long as the BIOS is set for INT 0x13 capture or INT 19 capture, and has an option like "boot from SCSI", or you can see evidence the new card and drive are seen, set the new drive as the boot option. Boot the new disk successfully (see the WinXP desktop) at least *once*. After this step is complete, you have freedom to connect the old drive again and do whatever you want with it. You don't want the new drive, to "see" the old drive, on the first bootup only. On later bootups, it is OK for the new drive to see the old drive. Without a new PCI IDE controller, you'd do steps 4 and 5, with the new disk connected to an existing IDE interface. And perhaps limit yourself to using 137GB, for safety. If you know the hardware has no problems and can do 137GB, then do steps 4 and 5 and don't worry about it. HTH, Paul |
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Instructions (online?) for transfering system to new HD
Paul --
Thank you very, very, very, very, very much for your extremely and unusually detailed instructions -- and for your easy-to-read formatting! I look forward to it with both eagerness and trepidation. -- Dudley On 9/8/12 4:14 AM, Paul wrote: Dudley Brooks wrote: I have a very old (1998) desktop which I hardly ever use anymore. Still, I want to transfer the system and programs from a 20 GB HD to a 160 GB HD. Can someone point me to good online instructions on how to do so? Also, instructions on finding out whether my existing hardware/software can handle the size and speed (7200)of the new HD. Thanks. WinXP 2002 SP3, Intel Celeron 334 MHz, 256 MB RAM The general point at which IDE interfaces supported 137GB, was hardware from the year 2003 (or more modern). The SP3 service pack, provides the support from the OS side, but there are still hardware issues to consider. ******* So you might want to check whether your hardware supports 48 bit LBA or not first. In a limited number of cases, there is information online about whether it's true or not. (Note - do *not* pay some joker, for a 48 bit LBA checking program... Waste of money.) (Really old motherboards... 32GB limited designs, patched around.) http://web.inter.nl.net/hcc/J.Steunebrink/k6plus.htm (Some old Asus motherboards, and 32/64/128GiB limits. 128GiB = 137GB decimal "Uber 128GB" means "Up to 137GB drive, as specified by manufacturer".) http://web.archive.org/web/201005020...gb_ide_hdd.htm (The magic of the year 2003. 137GB support after that date. Selective support via BIOS update.) http://support.asus.com.tw/technical...e=en-us&NO=501 (The Seagate doc, is no longer on their site, but is available from the archive. This is good for understanding your options, including adding a PCI IDE card. I had to read this document *many times*, before it gradually began to make sense. They try to overwhelm you with info.) http://web.archive.org/web/200701210...c/tp/137gb.pdf ******* One fix for that, is to purchase an IDE controller card. Such as the (now extinct) Promise Ultra133 TX2 card. There are still PCI IDE cards for sale, but you should read the reviews to determine how easy they are to use. If they're ATA6 standard or later, then they handle 48bit LBA, and drives of 137GB capacity. A 160GB drive, is slightly larger than 137GB. **** (This is a SIL0680 based card, 133 speed implies 48 bit LBA. Some of these old cards, you play around with firmware... In fact, that's endemic to adding storage cards to computers, a right PITA.) http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16815104214 http://www.koutech.com/proddetail.asp?linenumber=105 **** (This one is VT6421a based, and has one IDE connector. It also has two SATA connectors. Usually, VIA has good "old OS" support, but figuring out what driver to use, is a challenge.) http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16815124022 The VT6421a is SATA I compliant. You can "jumper down" a SATA II drive and connect it to the SATA port. (Seagate SATA drives have a four pin jumper area. Force150 jumper is available there.) As I understand it, a SATA III hard drive, may not work with those connectors, as SATA III can only be jumpered down to SATA II (mistake), while the autodetection bug in VIA silicon won't automatically negotiate SATA I rates. In summary, while that card has SATA connectors, there are issues with them. VIA does make at least one chip with that issue fixed, and there is one other poster here, who has a table of which chips are fixed. I don't have the info. **** You can still use a 160GB drive, even on a 137GB limited system. What you'd do, is avoid creating partitions, between the 137GB and 160GB points. Effectively wasting a tiny bit of space at the end. That's cheaper than having to buy a PCI IDE card as well. ******* To use a PCI IDE card, you would: 1) Shut down, install PCI IDE card. Leave the original drive connected to the motherboard. 2) Boot up, insert the CD that comes with the PCI IDE card. Install a driver. Open device manager (start:run: devmgmt.msc) and verify there are no yellow marks, and everything is happy. Now, the OS you're about to clone, has a driver which allows usage of the new IDE card. 3) Shut down, connect new drive to PCI IDE card connector. Set drive to Master (or Cable Select). Connect drive to the end connector of the cable. Boot up. Check disk management (start:run: diskmgmt.msc) and see if a new, blank disk is present. It may have a partition on it already, from the factory. Delete the partition on the new disk, if you're going to clone. 4) Now, you could try Macrium Reflect Free, as I think it supports cloning. It should be able to do that "live", while WinXP is running. http://www.macrium.com/reflectfree.aspx Alternately, go to the Seagate or WDC sites and get a copy of Acronis software they provide for free. Use the software, to clone the old disk, to the new disk. 5) Important. At this point (cloning complete), you have the old low capacity disk connected to the motherboard. And the new high capacity disk, connected to the PCI IDE card. With the power off, *unplug* the old IDE drive from its motherboard connector. Now, when the computer next boots, only the new disk is connected. Enter the BIOS, and set the boot option. As long as the BIOS is set for INT 0x13 capture or INT 19 capture, and has an option like "boot from SCSI", or you can see evidence the new card and drive are seen, set the new drive as the boot option. Boot the new disk successfully (see the WinXP desktop) at least *once*. After this step is complete, you have freedom to connect the old drive again and do whatever you want with it. You don't want the new drive, to "see" the old drive, on the first bootup only. On later bootups, it is OK for the new drive to see the old drive. Without a new PCI IDE controller, you'd do steps 4 and 5, with the new disk connected to an existing IDE interface. And perhaps limit yourself to using 137GB, for safety. If you know the hardware has no problems and can do 137GB, then do steps 4 and 5 and don't worry about it. HTH, Paul |
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Instructions (online?) for transfering system to new HD
On 9/7/12 5:59 PM, David H. Lipman wrote:
From: "Dudley Brooks" I have a very old (1998) desktop which I hardly ever use anymore. Still, I want to transfer the system and programs from a 20 GB HD to a 160 GB HD. Can someone point me to good online instructions on how to do so? Also, instructions on finding out whether my existing hardware/software can handle the size and speed (7200)of the new HD. Thanks. WinXP 2002 SP3, Intel Celeron 334 MHz, 256 MB RAM Just clone the old hard disk to the new hard disk. What will matter however is if you are using XP SP3 (for 137GB) as well as thye BIOS of this 1998 desktop can work with a hard disk 137GB. But I'll tell you. The fact that it is a old Celeron with ONLY .25GB, don't waste your time on this. If you are goin to upgrade the system, go to at least 1GB and a 120GB hard disk. Thanks. There are still a few programs I use on my old WinXP machine. But I have a much newer MacBook, so it's not worth spending much money to upgrade the old system (I was given the bigger HD -- didn't have to pay for it). And the MacBook's drive is already too full for dual booting. I'm going to try Paul's very detailed instructions. |
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Instructions (online?) for transfering system to new HD
As for this question, you just need to migrate or clone your system partition to the your 160gb HD throguh partition assistant.Its home edition is free and can help to migrate os without reinstalling. Here is step-by-step tutorial for you http://www.extend-partition.com/help...em-wizard.html
hope this reference can help you solve your problem. |
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Instructions (online?) for transfering system to new HD
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As for this question, you just need to migrate or clone your system partition to the your 160gb HD throguh partition assistant.Its home edition is free and can help to migrate os without reinstalling. Here is step-by-step tutorial for you snip hope this reference can help you solve your problem. This person can use the Free CloneZilla on Sourceforge. However no software for cloning addresses the fact that it is a 14 year old system, does NOT have sufficient RAM and the BIOS most likely will NOT handle a drive greater than 137GB. This is nothing but spam for AOMEI Technologies. -- Dave Multi-AV Scanning Tool - http://multi-av.thespykiller.co.uk http://www.pctipp.ch/downloads/dl/35905.asp |
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