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I currently have a 850Mb hard drive inside my A1200 Tower and want to upgrade to a bigger one, possibly 5-6Gb (maybe even bigger). I want to copy the contents of my existing hard drive onto the new one. I have no backup device to copy to and was wondering if there is a way to connect the 2 hard drives into the tower to enable me to copy from one to the other. If there is a better way of doing things please let me know that.

Answer


Just get a cable with 2 connectors on it (if you don't have already) and connect the second IDE drive up as a SLAVE, your 850Mb would already be a MASTER..
Set it up & partition it with HDToolbox, change the boot pri of your existing 850Mb drive to "1" & set the new drive as bootable with a bootpri of "0", this is so you can still auto boot from your old drive until you remove it from the system.
Format the drive & then, from a shell, type: (without the quotes) & insert the volume name of the drive partition instead of my substitute name: (No spaces in the drive names please)
"Copy 850Mb: NewBigDrive: ALL CLONE"

When everything is copied across, power down, remove your old drive, change the links on the new drive as MASTER & power up...
Voila !!!

*PS: Don't forget to set the MaxTransfer on all partitions on the new drive to: 0x1FE00 (0x0001FE00) first... (Before the format & copy)
Back to Tutorial menu, Hardware menu, or THE CRYPT menu.