07-28-13 12:22 BOB KLAHN wrote to PAUL QUINN about Backup software

 BK> {at}MSGID: 
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 BK>  I just replaced my stepson's hard drive with a larger one. I
 BK>  used Norton ghost to do it, the 32 bit version that runs in
 BK>  windows. It's the enterprise edition.

 BK>  Normally I use my old version that runs only in dos, but his
 BK>  computer only has a provision for 1 HD, and that version is
 BK> not
 BK>  real good with USB. If he had a cable with two plugs, or I
 BK> could
 BK>  find my spare, I could have done it easily. I was in a hurry
 BK> so
 BK>  I took three times as long to do it than if I had just waited
 BK> to
 BK>  find the right cable. Dang!

 BK>  However, with Ghost, made an image, then wrote it to the new
 BK>  drive. And he got the new drive running immediatly, and the
 BK>  image is stored on a second partition.

Bob,

I finally got a Tripp Lite U238-000-1 USB 2.0 to SATA/IDE Adapter
that I have been drooling over for several months.

I got it from PROVANTAGE, they let me write a personal check,
and after a few business days they shipped the Adapter to me.

It may be some sorta thing like that Adapter would had been of
some help to You, but You got it don't anyway with Ghost.

... Let's start out assuming I'm Right and You're Wrong.
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