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PostPosted: Wed Jun 21, 2006 2:24 pm    Post subject: new Hard drives Reply with quote

So i'm RMA'ing my old Seagates, apparently there was a bad batch...
I'm doing advance shipment so i get the drives in a few days, and have some time to copy data over to the new drives. anyone know of a special way of doing this?
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PostPosted: Wed Jun 21, 2006 9:41 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

You can backup your steam games (if you ordered them online) through steam onto CDs or DVDs or whatever. That saves a lot of time when reinstalling steam. I have a 40GB usb harddrive that I use for backups which comes in handy bigtime. If you have another computer on your network then Id use that to backup other things onto. I guess burning it all to DVDs would also work. I like to download the installers for programs like MSN or Antispyware or Firefox or Drivers and that saves a ton of time. I'm used to having to reformat cuz I always eff something up.

PS Dont forget to backup your savedgame files from your games!! I hate starting from scratch!
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PostPosted: Wed Jun 21, 2006 9:51 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I guess you could just install the new drives and then install the broken ones as secondaries and you can transfer your files between drives. I've never attempted anything like that before, though.
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PostPosted: Wed Jun 21, 2006 9:52 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

IF you want to copy them in there entirety including boot sectors and windows so you can plug in the new drive and go, you need a hard drive ghost software.

CHeck to see if segate has one for free. WD does for their drives on their website. Worst comes to worst find a free trianl of norton ghost.
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PostPosted: Wed Jun 21, 2006 9:56 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

DaKon wrote:
IF you want to copy them in there entirety including boot sectors and windows so you can plug in the new drive and go, you need a hard drive ghost software.

CHeck to see if segate has one for free. WD does for their drives on their website. Worst comes to worst find a free trianl of norton ghost.


Yes, that is exactly what I'm looking for. Thank you!
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PostPosted: Thu Jun 22, 2006 12:27 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

mUj0 wrote:
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IF you want to copy them in there entirety including boot sectors and windows so you can plug in the new drive and go, you need a hard drive ghost software.

CHeck to see if segate has one for free. WD does for their drives on their website. Worst comes to worst find a free trianl of norton ghost.


Yes, that is exactly what I'm looking for. Thank you!


wouldn't it copy the errors on the discs too?
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PostPosted: Thu Jun 22, 2006 1:15 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

It's just faulty hardware. I don't think any problems would copy. But maybe... hmmm
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PostPosted: Thu Jun 22, 2006 1:27 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Mike wrote:
mUj0 wrote:
DaKon wrote:
IF you want to copy them in there entirety including boot sectors and windows so you can plug in the new drive and go, you need a hard drive ghost software.

CHeck to see if segate has one for free. WD does for their drives on their website. Worst comes to worst find a free trianl of norton ghost.


Yes, that is exactly what I'm looking for. Thank you!


wouldn't it copy the errors on the discs too?


as far as i know, no. Seagate is pretty much claiming its a bad batch of drives. faulty hardware, like ranc said. They didnt waste any time with 'tech ssupport' with me. well, i d/l norton ghost. seagate doesnt have anything like it. and also, i think i wont need it anyways, i'm thinking of doing a RAID 0
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PostPosted: Thu Jun 22, 2006 1:46 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

mUj0 wrote:
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mUj0 wrote:
DaKon wrote:
IF you want to copy them in there entirety including boot sectors and windows so you can plug in the new drive and go, you need a hard drive ghost software.

CHeck to see if segate has one for free. WD does for their drives on their website. Worst comes to worst find a free trianl of norton ghost.


Yes, that is exactly what I'm looking for. Thank you!


wouldn't it copy the errors on the discs too?


as far as i know, no. Seagate is pretty much claiming its a bad batch of drives. faulty hardware, like ranc said. They didnt waste any time with 'tech ssupport' with me. well, i d/l norton ghost. seagate doesnt have anything like it. and also, i think i wont need it anyways, i'm thinking of doing a RAID 0


I would email thier tech support again about that. Because if the faulty hardware caused it to write an error on the disc, it'll probably copy over the error. I don't know much about this so I'm just making a guess.
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PostPosted: Thu Jun 22, 2006 4:19 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

this is the not the easiest way out, but it is the safest:

restart from scratch! atleast you'll be sure everything is back in exellent condition. it might seem like a burden now, but it will pay of afterwards.

(you know i'm right Mujo! just like i was with your drives the first time you had probs. )


once you have reinstalled xp and the drivers, then take an image with norton ghost and store it somewhere. next time you need/want to reformat you'll have a clean copy in handy.

like you said in the server yesterday: i should listen too you more, cobra.


that's your own advice .............. take it!
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PostPosted: Thu Jun 22, 2006 4:45 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

cobra wrote:
this is the not the easiest way out, but it is the safest:

restart from scratch! atleast you'll be sure everything is back in exellent condition. it might seem like a burden now, but it will pay of afterwards.

(you know i'm right Mujo! just like i was with your drives the first time you had probs. )


once you have reinstalled xp and the drivers, then take an image with norton ghost and store it somewhere. next time you need/want to reformat you'll have a clean copy in handy.

like you said in the server yesterday: i should listen too you more, cobra.


that's your own advice .............. take it!



hehe, will do

I'm definetly going with a RAID 0, so I will be starting over.
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PostPosted: Thu Jun 22, 2006 6:09 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

You can clone your hard drive to a raid 0 set up...
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PostPosted: Thu Jun 22, 2006 7:11 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

with norton ghost? I didnt know that. So you're saying i can take a JBOD setup (2 80 GB) and clone it to a RAID 0 160 GB setup?
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PostPosted: Fri Jun 23, 2006 1:20 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

seagate drives come with a driver disk that has a utility that does the copying. I've only ran into a few programs that are screwed from it. Acdsee, and quicktime to be exact. Just reinstalled them and good to go.
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PostPosted: Fri Jun 23, 2006 2:40 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

my seagate drives came with no disk
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