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Subject: Re: Cloning a 2.5" IDE/PATA Laptop Hard drive
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On Sun, 12 Nov 2017 20:22:04 +0000, "J. P. Gilliver (John)"
 wrote:

>Ah, when you said "I need both those connectors ..." I thought you meant 
>on the board. I now see you mean on the (single) cable.
>
>Yes, I can get your inclination to use a floppy - and if that works, 
>fine. I think you can put Macrium or Acronis on bootable USB sticks, but 
>that motherboard probably won't boot from USB. (You can also get SATA 
>CD/DVD drives - in fact, I think they're commonest these days.) Or 
>temporarily connect both EIDE hard drives to another computer, and use 
>that to do the cloning.
>
>Hang on though: You say "There is only one IDE connector on the 
>motherbd. One of them goes to the CD drive." One of them? You have the 
>CD drive and the HD connected to the motherboard - are they both on the 
>same cable, going to one connector on the mobo? If they're each 
>connected to a separate connector on the mobo, you can connect up to 
>four EIDE objects - you just need cables with three connectors on them. 
>(One for the mobo, two for the drives.)
>-- 

I thought I wasclear when I said THERE IS ONLY ONE IDE CONNECTOR ON THE
MOTHERBOARD. That means I can use two devices.

Yes, this computer will boot from a USB stick. I have a few sticks with
older versions of Linux that I occasionally boot up. 

BUt I'll stick with Norton Ghost and a floppy. Easiest solution, and
Acronis is said to be very complicated. I prefer simple!!! 

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