drive swap?

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I have just ordered a large (Seagate, 160 Gb, 8Mb cache) harddisk for my DAW.

Until now I've used an old, small one (ATA66, 24 Gb, 5400 RPM) for OS and applications, this is my C drive.

and a newer Seagate, 40Gb 2Mb cache for both projects and samples, this is my D drive.

My idea was to transfer C to the D drive, then install the new drive and use the D drive as C, without having to reinstall everything from the scratch.

So my question is: how do I accomplish this? Shall I get Norton Ghost or some other cool utility that you may have knowledge of?

Also would you advice me to keep samples on the same disk as the OS, just the same partition? I don't think samples should be on the same drive I use for project files, right?

Any advice here would be highly appreciated!
 
What I would do is install your new drive and copy everything across from the 40GB drive onto it.

Now Ghost a CLONE (not an image) of your C drive onto your D drive. This will trash whatever is on the D drive, but you've already got that backed up. The D drive will now be bootable.

Now rip out your old C drive and stash it as a bootable backup. Your old D drive now becomes your C drive, and Bigboy becomes the D drive.

By samples you mean audio data? If so I see no reason why they can't go on the same drive as your project files. The main thing is to keep your audio data and OS on seperate drives
 
Hi, fella!

Thank you very much for the instructions, that's great, I'll do exactly as you suggested.

By samples I meant .....samples...LOL ;-)

Serious....those are read only audio files that I use with Halion and Kontakt. I'm not sure I got it right, but I think the point is that one shouldn't use the same disk for reading and writing files, anybody can confirm this?
 
If you want a read-only drive, put the samples on your old C drive and keep the D drive solely for you project audio
 
Bulls Hit said:
What I would do is install your new drive and copy everything across from the 40GB drive onto it.

Now Ghost a CLONE (not an image) of your C drive onto your D drive. This will trash whatever is on the D drive, but you've already got that backed up. The D drive will now be bootable.
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One more question: what's the difference between an image and a clone?

Also, would Driver Image be a better purchase then Ghost?
 
A clone is a bit by bit copy of one drive or partition to another drive or partition. If you clone your C drive, you will copy all the boot sector stuff that's required to boot the OS. The drive you clone to will look identical to your original drive.

An image is like a backup but when you want to use it, you have to use Ghost again to restore it. If you imaged your C drive to another drive, you couldn't boot off it. The benefit of an image is it can be compressed.

I've never used Driver Image, but Ghost is good
 
I really appreciate!

that was really everything I wanted to know about it!
 
Seagate drives come with a nifty utility for transfering your stuff from the old drive to the new one
 
Badger said:
Seagate drives come with a nifty utility for transfering your stuff from the old drive to the new one
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sounds nice....
 
I just went through this process. Had a slow-ass 5400rpm 40GB drive and replaced it with a 7200 rpm 120GB drive. I used Norton Ghost to copy everything and it all worked.

Both drives will operate at the speed of the slower one if you keep the old C drive as a D drive. If you're counting on a performance boost, don't connect the old drive.
 
Hi Eddy Ray

all right, it sounds like Ghost will do the trick for me.

I'm not sure I got you right but: my current C drive, which is an ATA66 is going out of my music-pc forever, hence I'll stick with two drives. I think I'll place my current 40 Gb D drive as master on the primary IDE controller, with the cd-rw drive as a slave, and the new big music drive alone as master on the secundary IDE controller. Or is it a bad idea.

Also, although I'm not sure I'm willing to play the russian roulette with my data, I may eventually get something else then Ghost. I don't care much for Symantec anymore: for example, why the heck had they to buy Powerquest? It's like, if you can't beat them, buy them, eh?

I found this one:

http://www.acronis.com/products/trueimage/

Looks like Ghost+Drive Image in one, just much cheaper.
Dunno, just wanted to share the link, maybe someone knows Acronis?
 
Or again, since you've ordered a seagate drive, you could just use the util that comes with the drive. It works really well. And its free.

I own ghost, but when I install seagates I just thier software.
 
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