[TechAssist] Re: Computer Question
- From: "OrpheusComputing.com Repair" <techassist@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <techassist@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 26 Mar 2002 01:52:47 -0600
Gary you just need to hit 'reply' since it has the same
function as 'reply all' on this list. That *might* make a
difference maybe. :-)
Hugh, you cannot DUPLICATE COPY a HD by the drag 'n drop
method. All that will do is just copy the files, folders,
etc. It will not copy the appropriate entries in the
registry that an real INSTALLATION of each program does.
This would be fine for downloads or any doc's you created,
but not for installed programs, windows updates, etc. What
Gary suggested will work, and I recently used Adaptec's Take
Two (similar to Ghost) for copying a HD and it worked fine.
Of course by the time you may get one of those programs, 35
min. would be long gone several times. :-) Take Two is part
of Easy CD Creator (maybe only version 5) and it MIGHT come
bundled with some CDRW drives that come with Adaptec (Roxio)
burning software. I'm not sure if it's available only on
retail versions of ECDC 5 Platinum (what I have).
LAN's are much slower that direct HD to HD (as in slaving
one), so you could temp. slave the HD you want the data on to
the other PC's HD, THEN drag 'n drop. This would be a bit
faster, but again...this will only work if you just want to
copy basic files. It would not work for a "mirroring" or
exact duplicate of one HD to another. Also if it's a
bootable HD, they are not always visible in windows as
another drive letter if it is slaved.
FYI, If on a regular basis you do any file copying or sharing
from one PC to another, I believe the "file and printer
sharing" has to be on for this and that leaves you wide open
to hackers getting info off the PC's as well as putting
Trojan's on them. If what you want to do is NOT mirroring
one HD to another, and you enable file and printer sharing to
copy any files, you need to put that back to disabled when
you are through.
-Clint
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Gary McCartney" <number63@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <techassist@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Tuesday, March 26, 2002 1:22 AM
Subject: [TechAssist] Re: Computet Question
First, a note to Tech Assist Admin: I just hit Reply All when
I answered
this. I did not play with any headers or subject line or
anything. Then
I pressed SEND.
You can get a program such as Norton Ghost which will make a
perfect
backup of your hard drive. I have read other posts where
techs said they
have used Lap Link and PC Anywhere to do this as well. Ghost
would
likely back up 850 meg to another hard drive in the same
computer in a
manner of guessing 5 min. or so. Over a network to another
computer I
believe would take longer.
Gary McCartney
McCartney Electronics
7134 Fife Rd, RR 7
Guelph Ontario Canada N1H 6J4
Fax: (519)821-1530
email: number63@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
maintv wrote:
>
> Want to back up one computer Hard drive through LAN network
(in same
> shop) to another computer in case first computer HD fails
> in future. Files total about 850 mg. Tried drag-n-drop
method --said
> would take 35 min. Is there a faster way to copy the
files?
> I want to copy the complete "C" drive to back-up computer.
> TIA
> Hugh
> Main TV
>
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