Migrate from 160gb drive to smaller drive

bendit · Post by **bendit** » Wed Mar 30, 2005 9:26 pm

Hello, is it possible to clone a 160gb Seagate SATA with one large partition
and one small partion, to an 80gb Samsung IDE? I am thinking of getting Ghost 2003 to do this. I would prefer to use the free Seagate utility Discwizard starter edition. Which is the best way to do it? Thanks.

Regards,

Mike

m0002a · Post by **m0002a** » Wed Mar 30, 2005 9:35 pm

You can use Ghost to do this. The current version is 9.0, but the 2003 version can do it.

Sooty · Post by **Sooty** » Wed Mar 30, 2005 9:38 pm

They are very small drives!

madman2003 · Post by **madman2003** » Thu Mar 31, 2005 2:01 am

do you realise your talking about mb and not gb which is probably the size of the hard drive. A 486 we bought in 1994(not in use anymore ofcource) had a 202 mb hard drive, that was over 10 years ago.

bendit · Post by **bendit** » Thu Mar 31, 2005 5:41 am

thanks...

PaleMelanesian · Post by **PaleMelanesian** » Thu Mar 31, 2005 6:17 am

I've used Seagate Diskwizard for years, and never had anything but success. I've used it on Seagate and on other brand drives, it'll complain, but work. I use the "copy files" function, and it works just fine.

bendit · Post by **bendit** » Thu Mar 31, 2005 6:29 am

Pale, will it work with different brands drive sizes and partitions?
thanks...

Mike

PaleMelanesian · Post by **PaleMelanesian** » Thu Mar 31, 2005 2:25 pm

It gives options to partition drives, format them, etc. The only thing you can't do is format/delete the partition windows is running on.

For example, you can:
install new drive
partition it how you like (100% called D, 50/50 called D and E, lots and lots of little ones called DEFGHI...

)
copy from C to D
shut down
remove C
start the computer, it should boot from D, which is now C

I've used it on Seagate, WD, and Quantum drives. You can only use the "setup new drive" part with seagate drives, but the list above is from the "maintenance" section, so it works anywhere, anytime, anybrand...

I use it for a backup, too. Install extra drive, copy files, uninstall, put it in a safe place.

gilmanw · Post by **gilmanw** » Mon Apr 04, 2005 12:26 pm

I was looking into doing something like this as well for my wife's machine. She has a horribly noisy HP Pavilion that I've been slowly upgrading. Swapped out the PSU for a Seasonic Super Versatile 200, swapped out noisy fans and heat sink, etc.

Now all that is left is to get rid of the really noisy HD. It's a 80GB Western Digital and I want to swap it to a larger Samsung. Surfing around, it looks like Casper XP (http://www.fssdev.com/products/casperxp/) will do exactly what I want: clone the system drive to another drive, which then because the new system drive. The old drive can be used as a slave (or tossed out since it's now by far the noisiest thing within 20 feet of the machine).

Anyone have any experience with Casper XP?

PaleMelanesian · Post by **PaleMelanesian** » Mon Apr 04, 2005 1:38 pm

Diskwizard is free...