SATA HDD Cloner

[rabidgnome229]

I'm looking to move my OS and data from my small SATA drive to my big one. All of the free HDD Clone apps I can find only work with IDE drives (except HDClone which doesn't recognize my PC as having and drives :(). I don't want to spend a bunch on $ on Ghost since I'll probably only use it once, so does anybody know where I can find a free SATA HDD cloning app, or how to get this one (http://www.miray.de/products/sat.hdclone.html) to recognize my drives? Help is much appreciated.

[Know Nuttin]

:welcome: to the forums.

have you tried the tools from the hard drive manufacturers themselves?

[rabidgnome229]

I'm transfering from WD to Maxxtor, so both apps hate me :(. MaxBlast4 seems to clone it, but upon boot I get an error, and certain functions (like Run->msconfig) do not work.

[Randyman...]

http://www.tekdealers.com/?pg=product_details&productID=89

Ghost 2003 download $4.99. Works like a charm! Works on Firewire, USB, and Networks, too. I don't really like Norton, so I install it on my OS before I am about to do a fresh OS install. I Create the Bootable Floppy from Ghost, and then do my fresh install - so the Norton Crap never actually lives on my system for long at all. Then, when I need Ghost, I simply use the Bootable Floppy.

I doubt I would try any other software from these guys - but my copy of Ghost works perfectly...

:cool:

[rabidgnome229]

wow - 5 bux. i heard norton and kinda figured 999.99 to buy and an impossible to cancel billion dollar/month subscription. ty - downloading now

[Randyman...]

You are welcome. Good Luck!

:cool:

[Quailane]

Seagate's disk wizard is free and does exactly what you need. It has worked for me on any drive that windows can write to.