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Subject: Re: Cloning a 2.5" IDE/PATA Laptop Hard drive
Date: Fri, 10 Nov 2017 05:01:00 -0600
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On Fri, 10 Nov 2017 03:18:09 -0500, Paul  wrote:


>> 
>> The file is 1.3mb. It will take a half hour on my dialup, but I can
>> usually DL files of that size without problems.
>> 
>> This does look to be thge best way to clone these drives. I dont even
>> want to attempt to do it with a CD, because I've been thru trying to
>> configure CD drives and Hard drives on the same cable, and it naver
>> worked. Not to mention I only have connectors for TWO IDEs and would
>> need THREE. On top of that, I will do anything to avoid burning CDs.
>> Thats generally another nightmare, especially if they need to be
>> bootable. 
>> 
>> I'll have to drive to town and see if I can download it at a WIFI, but
>> it sure seems like the file is borked, and I'm not willing to drive 10
>> miles for nothing. 
>> 
>> 
>
>Do you have a copy of "wget.exe" ?
>
>    wget http://www.domain.com/file.zip
>
This got 404 Error
The page you requested no longer exists or is temporarily unavailable.

>That puts "file.zip" in your current working directory
>plus it give you a progress bar to watch the download.
>
>*******
>
>The one in here is fairly small. If I get the gnuwin32 one,
>that has bigger files for some reason.
>
>2,265,402 bytes (this is the WinXP windows update fetcher package)
>
>https://web.archive.org/web/20140605101941/http://download.wsusoffline.net/wsu
soffline921.zip
>
And this thing quit early too, and left me with a useless 300K file.

>Inside the ZIP file, in wsusoffline\bin\ you will find
>wget.exe 233984 bytes.
>
>You can then try that on the annoying NGINX server
>at dslreports.
>
>    Paul
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