Hey everyone.
I purchased a 100gb/7200rpm (Hitachi 7k100) drive to replace my existing 100gb/5400rpm bootdrive. I didn't want to reformat, my winxp installation seems to be going 'ok'. So I decided to try cloning, using Norton Ghost 9.
Bad Idea! Norton Ghost refuses to clone whole disks (partitions only) and after trying twice to clone 90gb of data, both times the disk turned out unbootable (windows xp would complain of some bad disk configuration).
After wasting a few hours with ghost
, I moved on to Acronis Trueimage. This time I could clone a whole disk including dell recovery partition etc. Excellent!
So I cloned, booted (while holding my breath), and it worked!
A full 7200rpm's of high speed goodness. Everything feels more responsive, load times are noticeably lower.
So anyone who's considering upgrading their drive to one with higher rpm's, but doesn't want to reformat, give Trueimage a go!
I purchased a 100gb/7200rpm (Hitachi 7k100) drive to replace my existing 100gb/5400rpm bootdrive. I didn't want to reformat, my winxp installation seems to be going 'ok'. So I decided to try cloning, using Norton Ghost 9.
Bad Idea! Norton Ghost refuses to clone whole disks (partitions only) and after trying twice to clone 90gb of data, both times the disk turned out unbootable (windows xp would complain of some bad disk configuration).
After wasting a few hours with ghost
, I moved on to Acronis Trueimage. This time I could clone a whole disk including dell recovery partition etc. Excellent!So I cloned, booted (while holding my breath), and it worked!
A full 7200rpm's of high speed goodness. Everything feels more responsive, load times are noticeably lower.
So anyone who's considering upgrading their drive to one with higher rpm's, but doesn't want to reformat, give Trueimage a go!
