Guest sharontango Posted September 28, 2007 Posted September 28, 2007 My win98 hdd basically crashed or have clicking sounds when I boot up and I am having difficult in installing a win98se into another hdd. The kb and mouse does not work after 'setup' and basically cannot click "continue' My question is can I install say ACRONIS into my win xp computerand do an image of my win98 hdd into a new hdd. If so, is there any precautioons I need to take since I have never use Acronis before. Thank you.
Guest Tom [Pepper] Willett Posted September 28, 2007 Posted September 28, 2007 Re: Imange this hdd? Acronis Forums: http://www.wilderssecurity.com/forumdisplay.php?f=65 "sharontango" <sharontango@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:AE278A16-A8A2-4C0D-B5FE-576D2DBB0912@microsoft.com... | My win98 hdd basically crashed or have clicking sounds when I boot up and I | am having difficult in installing a win98se into another hdd. The kb and | mouse does not work after 'setup' and basically cannot click "continue' | My question is can I install say ACRONIS into my win xp computerand do an | image of my win98 hdd into a new hdd. If so, is there any precautioons I need | to take since I have never use Acronis before. Thank you.
Guest Patrick Keenan Posted September 28, 2007 Posted September 28, 2007 Re: Imange this hdd? "sharontango" <sharontango@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:AE278A16-A8A2-4C0D-B5FE-576D2DBB0912@microsoft.com... > My win98 hdd basically crashed or have clicking sounds when I boot up and > I > am having difficult in installing a win98se into another hdd. The kb and > mouse does not work after 'setup' and basically cannot click "continue' > My question is can I install say ACRONIS into my win xp computerand do an > image of my win98 hdd into a new hdd. If so, is there any precautioons I > need > to take since I have never use Acronis before. Thank you. The short answer is yes... maybe. The "maybe" depends on the damage to the drive. If it has failed electrically so that it can't mount, your options have diminished greatly. In those cases, there's apparently some data recovery software that will work on electrically functioning but non-mounting drives. But if the electronics have well and truly failed, you need the services of professionals to get the data, and this isn't inexpensive. I usually saw bills starting around CDN$1000. They can dismantle the drive and mount the platters on custom electronics - this is something that you cannot do yourself, and the gear and the facility isn't cheap. Also, if the damage is to the filesystem, copying damaged files won't help. But it's very easy and cheap to try, and TrueImage can be quick. In fact it's probably the fastest way to back up a system. And, once you have made an image of the drive, you have a backup of the data. Download and install the free TrueImage Home trial, about 100 meg, from http://www.acronis.com to your XP system. Reboot. Attach your old drive to the XP PC, perhaps via USB2 case (these can be had for around $20 and are a big help for this). Get the jumpers right! If you don't the drive won't be recognised properly and the system may hang at bootup. Now, run the TrueImage trial, tell it to back up the drive, and create an image of the old drive. You can also directly attempt to clone the drive to a new one, but I would suggest that you create an image first and use that to create a clone later. I suggest this because if your existing drive is failing, it has limited and unknown life time left. You need to make best use of that time, and cloning takes longer. As well, creating the image gives you a backup copy of the drive's contents so that if you find that the clone didn't work (for example, because of file corruption on the original) you can start fresh with the drive and copy the data later. However, if you choose to clone, choose Manual mode, not Automatic, as Manual lets you adjust target partition size - this means that if the newer drive is larger, that space will be used. You'll have 14 days or so to complete the task, but you may find that TrueImage is not expensive and worth purchasing. HTH -pk
Guest WaIIy Posted September 28, 2007 Posted September 28, 2007 Re: Imange this hdd? On Fri, 28 Sep 2007 14:14:00 -0700, sharontango <sharontango@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote: >My win98 hdd basically crashed or have clicking sounds when I boot up and I >am having difficult in installing a win98se into another hdd. The kb and >mouse does not work after 'setup' and basically cannot click "continue' >My question is can I install say ACRONIS into my win xp computerand do an >image of my win98 hdd into a new hdd. If so, is there any precautioons I need >to take since I have never use Acronis before. Thank you. The new hard drive should have a utility that comes with it to do what you want.
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