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  • pentium
    Badcaps Legend
    • Mar 2006
    • 2778
    • Canada

    #1

    Finally!

    For a little over a year now I have been trying to piece together a new system for my parents.
    Their current one is dead slow (put lightly) and the page file is MASSIVE!

    Anyways, a new 20 gig drive came in and that finished off the checklist.
    After uing the windows settings transfer wizard to back up ereryone's profiles to the server I shut the systemm down and and put it's old drive in the new system as the slave to the 20 gig master (so you could still get files that were not transfered over). Four hours later the new system was fully up and running with little fuss although we had to call M$ because xp would not activate.
    My parents are happy. They can now run google earth (hint to how old the video card was) and boot time now takes about two minuets from power-on to logged in and idle compared to thirty minuets.
    What's my pay for this?
    I'm being driven to Vancouver tomorrow to pick up a Silicon Graphics Crimson, Onyx and Indigo2. With that much power, I should have control over the world by thursday!
    Find Nedry!


    Check the Vending machines!!

    <----Computer says I need more beer.
  • WNG
    Badcaps Veteran
    • Sep 2006
    • 354

    #2
    Re: Finally!

    30 minutes?!?!?!

    Ok, now I know who to send the bill for global warming.
    “We the willing, led by the unknowing, are doing the impossible for the ungrateful.
    We have done so much, with so little, for so long, we are now qualified to do anything, with nothing.”

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    • stevo1210
      Badcaps Legend
      • Oct 2006
      • 4156
      • Australia

      #3
      Re: Finally!

      Originally posted by pentium
      Four hours later the new system was fully up and running with little fuss although we had to call M$ because xp would not activate.
      I really hate that part...... I don't get the point of calling microsoft to reactivate my Windows copy because of a re-installation and some hardware changes....
      I think it should all be done online to save me the hassle of wasting money on a phone call.
      Don't find love, let love find you. That's why its called falling in love, because you don't force yourself to fall, you just fall. - Anonymous

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      • willawake
        Super Modulator
        • Nov 2003
        • 8457
        • Greece

        #4
        Re: Finally!

        windows settings transfer wizard
        new comp deserves new install
        since we have a half assed job you should be taken half the way to vancouver and walk the rest
        capacitor lab yachtmati techmati

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        • pentium
          Badcaps Legend
          • Mar 2006
          • 2778
          • Canada

          #5
          Re: Finally!

          I used the wizard to move stuff like email addresses, favourites and not whole programs which can just be reinstalled. I was careful about that.
          Find Nedry!


          Check the Vending machines!!

          <----Computer says I need more beer.

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          • gonzo0815
            Badcaps Legend
            • Feb 2006
            • 1600

            #6
            Re: Finally!

            I usually just replace the HDD driver, then do some image copy and give it a chance to work with the new system.
            And as long as the system was not totally fucked up with worms, trojans or other crappy stuff before, it worked for me many times.
            I think WXP and W2k are stable enough for such things.
            Sure, it will give you not this speed feeling, you will have after a fresh installation, but I prefer this than going to the hassle to install all the required programs again.

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            • pentium
              Badcaps Legend
              • Mar 2006
              • 2778
              • Canada

              #7
              Re: Finally!

              I was not reusing that hard drive.
              It was starting to fail and it felt like that it lacked any sort of cache.
              Find Nedry!


              Check the Vending machines!!

              <----Computer says I need more beer.

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              • gonzo0815
                Badcaps Legend
                • Feb 2006
                • 1600

                #8
                Re: Finally!

                I certainly do not use older HDD`s again, thus i use some partition copy tools like Acronis or even Ghost to mirror it to the new drive.
                Especially Acronis is quite nice, you can save a drive image over network by windwos network shares.
                I just omit the os reinstall.

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                • WNG
                  Badcaps Veteran
                  • Sep 2006
                  • 354

                  #9
                  Re: Finally!

                  Acronis is very good. Everyone should create a disk image after they finish a fresh install. Plus whenever new sw/hw is installed, do a backup image right before.
                  You can get a copy of Disk Image for free.
                  Go to Seagate's website and download it. It's called Disk Wizard, but it's a renamed copy of Acronis Disk Image. (which version I don't know)
                  “We the willing, led by the unknowing, are doing the impossible for the ungrateful.
                  We have done so much, with so little, for so long, we are now qualified to do anything, with nothing.”

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                  • Paul S
                    Badcaps Veteran
                    • Sep 2006
                    • 326

                    #10
                    Re: Finally!

                    I see that Disk Wizard is a Windows executable.

                    If you want a disk imager that will work on any OS, try Boot It Next Generation (aka Bing). It will install itself on a small partition, and you can copy the image to DVDs or another hard drive. It is also a boot manager, if you need one.

                    It is share ware, so after 30 days it stops automatically booting the default system. I just uninstall it until I need it again.

                    A small tip. The copied image usually is not bootable, at first. I have a generic WinXP boot floppy for the first boot. Then go to Disk Management, right click on the disk, and choose to "Mark Partition as Active".

                    http://www.terabyteunlimited.com/

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