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laptop with 2 hard drives?
Do any of the Dell laptops provide 2 bays for
hard drives like the desktops do? (I'm looking for an easy way to clone a laptop hard drive.) *TimDaniels* |
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"Timothy Daniels" wrote:
Do any of the Dell laptops provide 2 bays for hard drives like the desktops do? (I'm looking for an easy way to clone a laptop hard drive.) Many Dell laptops support the D-Bay hard drive. I haven't tried Ghosting my system disk to the D-Bay drive, but I'd imagine it would work. The BIOS also supports booting from the D-Bay drive, FWIW. |
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William P.N. Smith wrote:
"Timothy Daniels" wrote: Do any of the Dell laptops provide 2 bays for hard drives like the desktops do? (I'm looking for an easy way to clone a laptop hard drive.) Many Dell laptops support the D-Bay hard drive. I haven't tried Ghosting my system disk to the D-Bay drive, but I'd imagine it would work. The BIOS also supports booting from the D-Bay drive, FWIW. Sounds encouraging. Is the "D-bay" usually used by other storage devices (perhaps optical), or is it meant just for hard drives? *TimDaniels* |
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"Timothy Daniels" wrote in message ... Do any of the Dell laptops provide 2 bays for hard drives like the desktops do? (I'm looking for an easy way to clone a laptop hard drive.) Don't screw with that. The easy way to clone a laptop HD is on a desktop. Just get an adapter(or two) and connect the laptop HD to a desktop's standard EIDE cable. FLT-3120 http://www.scsicablesource.com/images/flt-3120.jpg |
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Does it support USB2? (If not, easy to add a USB2 PC Card, etc) ... I
would try Drive Image 7 with a laptop drive in an external USB2 enclosure (I use ADS Dual Links) ... that *should* create a bootable image, but I have not tried it. [I have, however, moved desktop drives in the Dual Link to an IDE channel with no problems - all partitions, data, etc, remained accessible] Timothy Daniels wrote: Do any of the Dell laptops provide 2 bays for hard drives like the desktops do? (I'm looking for an easy way to clone a laptop hard drive.) *TimDaniels* |
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"Timothy Daniels" wrote in message ...
Do any of the Dell laptops provide 2 bays for hard drives like the desktops do? (I'm looking for an easy way to clone a laptop hard drive.) *TimDaniels* A] 1)remove hard drive from laptop 2)insert laptop hard drive into desktop with special adapter (easy and cheap to find) 3)clone drive B] 1) use Norton Ghost (or similar) 2) send image to CD-RW or accross network 3) clone drive C] PROFIT!!!! |
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Three comments:
1. To clone a laptop hard drive means to clone it. If the original laptop drive is the usual 2.5" type, so is the clone. TWO desktop adapters are needed for cloning. 2. Though unlikely in this era of highly standardized BIOSes, it is possible that the drive geometry(s) supported by a desktop BIOS are different than the one used by the laptop. This could lead to one screwed up clone drive. 3. There is a MUCH easier way to clone a laptop drive. I did it last week to get all the data from a failing 60GB drive inside a 3GHz Dell laptop onto a replacement drive sent out by Dell to my client. Use a USB-IDE converter, and attach the drive to be cloned to the laptop via its USB port. (In the unlikely event that the laptop lacks a USB port, the same can be done with a PC Card-IDE converter.) The USB-IDE converter I bought came in a box marked "ALL PURPOSES SMART IDE CONVERTER." You can bet from the brilliant syntax that the kit came from Taiwan, which is what the box says. But the converter worked even more brilliantly than the syntax, perfectly in fact. I don't think I paid more than $30 for the USB-IDE converter on eBay. I also used Seagate's SEATOOLS, which will clone any standard partition type (FAT16, FAT32, or NTFS), but not oddball or hidden diagnostic partitions. .... Ben Myers On 14 Sep 2004 18:10:22 -0700, (the yeti) wrote: "Timothy Daniels" wrote in message ... Do any of the Dell laptops provide 2 bays for hard drives like the desktops do? (I'm looking for an easy way to clone a laptop hard drive.) *TimDaniels* A] 1)remove hard drive from laptop 2)insert laptop hard drive into desktop with special adapter (easy and cheap to find) 3)clone drive B] 1) use Norton Ghost (or similar) 2) send image to CD-RW or accross network 3) clone drive C] PROFIT!!!! |
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ben_myers_spam_me_not @ charter.net (Ben Myers) wrote in message ... Three comments: 1. To clone a laptop hard drive means to clone it. If the original laptop drive is the usual 2.5" type, so is the clone. TWO desktop adapters are needed for cloning. Right, just like I said possibly two. But that's the harder way. Make an image file of the laptop drive on the desktop HD and then restore that image file to another laptop drive inserted into the same adapter. 2. Though unlikely in this era of highly standardized BIOSes, it is possible that the drive geometry(s) supported by a desktop BIOS are different than the one used by the laptop. This could lead to one screwed up clone drive. VERY unlikely today. 3. There is a MUCH easier way to clone a laptop drive. I did it last week to get all the data from a failing 60GB drive inside a 3GHz Dell laptop onto a replacement drive sent out by Dell to my client. Use a USB-IDE converter, and attach the drive to be cloned to the laptop via its USB port. (In the unlikely event that the laptop lacks a USB port, the same can be done with a PC Card-IDE converter.) Although workable this technique is more likely to have some potholes than the other. The USB-IDE converter I bought came in a box marked "ALL PURPOSES SMART IDE CONVERTER." You can bet from the brilliant syntax that the kit came from Taiwan, which is what the box says. But the converter worked even more brilliantly than the syntax, perfectly in fact. I don't think I paid more than $30 for the USB-IDE converter on eBay. I also used Seagate's SEATOOLS, which will clone any standard partition type (FAT16, FAT32, or NTFS), but not oddball or hidden diagnostic partitions. ... Ben Myers On 14 Sep 2004 18:10:22 -0700, (the yeti) wrote: "Timothy Daniels" wrote in message ... Do any of the Dell laptops provide 2 bays for hard drives like the desktops do? (I'm looking for an easy way to clone a laptop hard drive.) *TimDaniels* A] 1)remove hard drive from laptop 2)insert laptop hard drive into desktop with special adapter (easy and cheap to find) 3)clone drive B] 1) use Norton Ghost (or similar) 2) send image to CD-RW or accross network 3) clone drive C] PROFIT!!!! |
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"Timothy Daniels" wrote:
William P.N. Smith wrote: "Timothy Daniels" wrote: Do any of the Dell laptops provide 2 bays for hard drives like the desktops do? (I'm looking for an easy way to clone a laptop hard drive.) Many Dell laptops support the D-Bay hard drive. I haven't tried Ghosting my system disk to the D-Bay drive, but I'd imagine it would work. The BIOS also supports booting from the D-Bay drive, FWIW. Sounds encouraging. Is the "D-bay" usually used by other storage devices (perhaps optical), or is it meant just for hard drives? We've got nearly the full set of D-Bay peripherals, floppy, hard drive, CD writer, DVD writer, and extended battery. I think they also make a Zip drive and LS-120, but I don' t have much use for either of those. 8*) Yeah, if all you want is to clone a particular drive once, there are easier ways, but if you want to be able to back up your system, the D-Bay hard drive is wonderful. Since the latest versions of Ghost can write image files to NTFS partitions, you can have multiple hard drive images on your D-Bay drive and still store extra files and such. Just make a (DOS) bootable partition, put Ghost on it, and you are ready for complete destruction of your internal hard drive! 8*) The housing (4P124) is about $30, it requires five screws (7M490) at 50 cents each. There are four optional screws (5X488) to hold the hard drive in place, but they are $5 (yow!) each, and the compression fit of the drive in the bay is pretty good. Add any 9.5mm laptop hard drive and you are all set. You can buy the whole thing assembled with a 40G drive for $104 from Dell's Small Business sales, but a 40G drive isn't nearly big enough for what we needed. I put a spare 60G in my wife's and a spare 80G in mine, and I'm anxiously awaiting the 100s and 120s! |
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