One hard disk upgrade, for him or me?
During the recent upgrade of my son’s computer, I checked his aging Seagate hard disk with Seagate Seatools and Adenix SMART Explorer. I found that his hard disk was wearing out after years of use (or abuse?) So clever me had a thought and decided to plump for a Western Digital 160GB SATA hard disk [an aside here: I'm no longer using Seagate hard disks in my system or my clients; I've found that the Seagates usually wear down faster. Western Digital, on the other hand, has been pretty reliable].
I figured that I’d swap my Western Digital 80GB hard disk and put it in his system, after cloning my Vista OS. What I didn’t foresee was that my favorite imaging program Drive Image 2002 was incompatible with Vista-darn. Did some searching on the Net and came out with Drive Image XML, a free imaging program for private users. It was quite straightforward to use, until I tried the disk copy function. Since my C: drive couldn’t be locked, Drive Image cautioned that the copied partition could not be 100% stable. Uh oh, I still remember my Sunday bloody Sunday campaign not too long ago.
At this point I was thinking of Acronis (yes I was, Doris) but you know teenagers: they want their systems back ASAP. Shrugged my shoulders, used Drive Image 2002 to copy his Windows XP OS from the old Seagate to the brand new Western Digital 160GB disk. And I’m left with my existing 80GB hard disk, lol.
Never mind, hard disk prices are always falling. I’ll grab mine later in the year, if I can manage to find a good imaging program for Vista by then.
Tags: Acronis, Drive Image, hard disk, SATA, Seagate, western digital
