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Subject: Re: Cloning a 2.5" IDE/PATA Laptop Hard drive
Date: Mon, 13 Nov 2017 14:02:09 -0700
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james@nospam.com wrote:
> 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!!!

I found Acronis (at least the older editions) to be the easiest solution, 
and had some problems with Norton, so I guess our mileage varies.   YMMV. 
:-) 

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