500gb Network Drive

[Oditius]

I was thinking, it is possible to clone my Dual drive "Vista/XP" to the network drive? I was thinking of changing my XP hard drive (120gn 5400rpm) to a new 200gb 7200rpm drive. I must forewarn that I have Vista Ultimate and it uses the other drive for it's Bitlogger security. Not sure if that means anything, but thought I would mention it.


Rodney Ulanowicz

Dell XPS Laptop M1730
Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU T7500 @ 2.20GHz
4gb Ram
XP on a 120gb 5400rpm C:drive
Vista Ultimate(32) on a 160gb 7200rpm D:drive

[jmk94903]

-{ Quote: "I was thinking, it is possible to clone my Dual drive "Vista/XP" to the network drive? I was thinking of changing my XP hard drive (120gn 5400rpm) to a new 200gb 7200rpm drive. I must forewarn that I have Vista Ultimate and it uses the other drive for it's Bitlogger security. Not sure if that means anything, but thought I would mention it.
" }-You certainly don't want to "clone" to a net work drive. A clone is an exact copy of the original drive. Nothing else could be stored on the network drive. What a waste.

You want to make an image of your drive and store it on the network drive. Then you can restore the image to the new drive.

I'm confused about how Vista stores info on "the other drive." Isn't this a notebook computer with one hard drive? What's the other drive?

[Oditius]

You are right about cloning to the network drive, I decided to just back up data to it. As for the replacement drive, I used Acronis drive to clone the XP drive to the new 200gb drive. And to answer your other statement, I own a Dell XPS M1730 laptop. It had 2 separate drives. So I have XP on a 200gb 7200rpm drive, and Vista Ultimate on the 160gb 7200rpm drive. This is one HEAVY laptop. ;D

[jmk94903]

-{ Quote: "You are right about cloning to the network drive, I decided to just back up data to it. As for the replacement drive, I used Acronis drive to clone the XP drive to the new 200gb drive. And to answer your other statement, I own a Dell XPS M1730 laptop. It had 2 separate drives. So I have XP on a 200gb 7200rpm drive, and Vista Ultimate on the 160gb 7200rpm drive. This is one HEAVY laptop. ;D" }-Data on the network drive is a natural, but if you can see the network drive after booting from the TI Recovery CD, you can use it to store backup images also.

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