John Colby
jwcolby at ColbyConsulting.com
Sun Mar 5 20:39:46 CST 2006
I agree with Jon. The slowest device will determine the speed of disk access. John W. Colby www.ColbyConsulting.com -----Original Message----- From: dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com [mailto:dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Jon Tydda Sent: Sunday, March 05, 2006 7:09 AM To: 'Discussion of Hardware and Software issues' Subject: Re: [dba-Tech] Ghosting an old HD to a New HD The other guy was wrong - the drives only go as "fast" as the slowest thing on the cable. So put your hard drives on one cable and your cd/dvd drives on the other. Jon -----Original Message----- From: dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com [mailto:dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Arthur Fuller Sent: 05 March 2006 03:34 To: 'Discussion of Hardware and Software issues' Subject: Re: [dba-Tech] Ghosting an old HD to a New HD Thanks for the detailed explanation and recipe! Your last comment struck me particularly, since I was told precisely the opposite by somebody. Not to say you or he is right, but what he said was, "The best way to lay it out is both HDs as masters, and your CD-burner and DVD-burner as slaves. That way, you can enter the BIOS at bootup and choose which master to boot." I know so little about this stuff that I am not even sure your position differs from his. -----Original Message----- From: dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com [mailto:dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of DJK(John) Robinson Sent: March 4, 2006 8:07 PM To: 'Discussion of Hardware and Software issues' Subject: Re: [dba-Tech] Ghosting an old HD to a New HD Hi Arthur I'm not an expert in this area, but I have done similar things. I used Drive Image 7 (not its sibling Partition Magic). Before you start copying stuff, you might want to partition the new disc into partitions that will in due course become C:\ and D:\ But don't give them drive letters yet: it's too easy to get snarled up. Under Win XP, use Control Panel \ Administrative Tools \ Computer Management \ Disk Management. But hey, I'm sure you knew that. :-) I think your strategy is sound. OK, so D:\ will be out of action temporarily, but when you've imaged the old C:\ onto the new potential C:\ you can try switching over to it. If it fails, go back to old C:\ while you figure out why; if it works, go on to stage 2. I'd get on to Stage 2 right away, while you're on a roll! Use Disk Management to mess with the drive letters: give the new potential D:\ some temporary letter, say T:\. Physically swap the old drives over, so you can copy the D:\ contents onto T:\. OK? Then change the old D:\'s drive letter to X:\, and change T:\ to D:\ You should now have a fully working system with C: and D: drives both on your new disk, and all the pointers happy and unchanged: no complexity. (BUT you still have both old disks, just in case ..) _______________________________________________ dba-Tech mailing list dba-Tech at databaseadvisors.com http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/dba-tech Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com -- This email has been verified as Virus free Virus Protection and more available at http://www.plus.net _______________________________________________ dba-Tech mailing list dba-Tech at databaseadvisors.com http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/dba-tech Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com