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Copying from one hard drive to another
21-03-2013 8:40 PM
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1. do I need to worry about which version of SATA interface the new hard drive has?
2. how can I do a full copy (and I mean full) from the hard drive on my old pc to the new hard drive? I understand one way is to fit my old hard disk externally to the 775 (connected via a USB interface), with the new SATA hard disk in the 775. I can get hold of a copy of Ghost 11.5, but when I boot from Ghost, will that do the trick of then transferring the data from the old disk to the new one, and will that include making the new disk a bootable disk?
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Re: Copying from one hard drive to another
21-03-2013 9:09 PM
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21-03-2013 10:07 PM
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As far as the interface was concerned, I was worried because some hard drives are advertised as SATA-600, and I'd never heard of SATA-600. Dabs.Com advertises some SATA drives as SATA-600 and others as just SATA. Investigating what SATA-600 was led me to finding that some SATA interfaces have a speed of 150MB/s, some are 300 and some are 600, but nothing pointed to something actually called SATA-600. I was just being cautious before I went buying new drives.
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Re: Copying from one hard drive to another
22-03-2013 8:27 AM
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22-03-2013 8:50 AM
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22-03-2013 9:19 AM
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22-03-2013 9:49 AM
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23-03-2013 3:00 PM
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Regards and thanks to all
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23-03-2013 3:21 PM
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Re: Copying from one hard drive to another
01-04-2013 8:46 AM
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Have I done something wrong, or am I doing something that just wont work? Is this a driver problem?
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01-04-2013 10:28 AM
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You do realise that the windows on the old PC is locked to that and won't work on the new one
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01-04-2013 10:51 AM
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Make sure the SATA mode is set to ATA in the BIOS. If its set to AHCI then it will need the correct SATA drivers installed in order to work correctly.
http://www.waynezim.com/2009/07/install-windows-xp-on-dell-optiplex-755-760-960-without-ahci-sata-dr...
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Re: Copying from one hard drive to another
01-04-2013 12:46 PM
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I fitted a brand new hard drive in the new pc. I removed the old hard drive from the old pc and mounted it in an external chassis that has a USB interface. I then connected that on the new pc via a USB port. I fitted the Ghost CD in the new pc dvd drive, and booted up. I ran through the Ghost process copying from the old hard drive to the new. The report on the new hard drive afterwards semed to indicate that it was programmed. I removed the Ghost CD, turned off the new pc, disconnected the old hard drive, and restarted the new pc. The new pc goes into this continuos cycle of doing the initial bootup to the list where I can select Normal or Safe Mode, but after about 30 seconds (if I do nothing) goes back to the Dell display (where you hit F2 if you want to go into the BIOS). If I select Safe Mode, it goes through that high-speed display of what ever Safe Mode always does before it opens a Safe Windows Desktop, but doesn't get to the Safe Windows Desktop because it goes back to the Dell display
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01-04-2013 11:24 PM
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What you should have done is borrowed a Windows disc for whatever version of Windows is on the Optiplex 775, installed it on your blank hard drive, downloaded and installed the drivers from the Dell web site the transferred the data from your old computer.
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02-04-2013 5:16 PM
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Thanks to all for your help
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