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How to clone a Hard Drive to a slightly smaller Hard Drive? Hi, I have a hard drive which is 153 GB with 116 GB free space. I would like to clone this drive to a hard drive which is a 149 GB big (this is the largest hard drive I have... It would be typical that my largest drive is only 4 GB to small... :)). Is... Started by Kryten on Sunday, December 27, 2009, 4 posts by 4 people.   Read the full thread at superuser Discuss this with your friends on Facebook Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at superuser): EASEUS ToDo Backup is a free to a few GB below your destination drive.... Symantec Ghost v11 will do that, you can clone the source drive to any destination as long as the used data do not exceed the disk space available on the target drive.

Hard drives... hard drives... hard drives... I still haven't decided on a good hard drive for my rig. With the prices as high as they are at the moment, it isn't easy to make a definite decision, so I was wondering if anyone has any suggestions? I am looking for a simple, 1TB, 7200 RPM hard drive... Started by Eirreann on Monday, January 16, 2012, 14 posts by 9 people.   Read the full thread at alienwarearena Discuss this with your friends on Facebook Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at alienwarearena): Well as the review is getting.... Hard drive just stuck it out longer. MrPhantom said: DreyraJar said drives were still the main source for data storage. Hard drive just stuck it out longer. The main source for data storage.

Are USB hard drive sizes limited by motherboard hard drive controller? I'm looking to put an expansion EIDE controller in my dad's desktop so it can handle a new 500 GB drive (evidently the motherboard EIDE controller has the 137 GB limit). He got a 500 GB USB hard drive for it, too, and I was wondering if that would work... Started by Nathaniel on Sunday, October 25, 2009, 3 posts by 3 people.   Read the full thread at superuser Discuss this with your friends on Facebook Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at superuser): Are USB hard drive sizes limited by motherboard controller? Which controller do you mean? If you're talking about the motherboard's hard drive controller (IDE/SATA the drive.... With the install media that you're using.

Using an ATA-100 Hard Drive with a Thermaltake BlacX External Hard Drive Dock Is it possible for a Thermaltake BlacX HDD Dock to connect to and recognize an ATA-100 Hard Drive? I know that the specifications for the BlacX say that it only supports SATA & SATAII, but I was hoping for one of three things: 1) for it to still work ... Started by Joe on Saturday, December 26, 2009, 3 posts by 3 people.   Read the full thread at superuser Discuss this with your friends on Facebook Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at superuser): 3) for there to be another part of some sort . Be to get a dock that worked with and ATA (IDE) drive.

Upgrade internal 2.5" hard drive vs external usb hard drive for an old laptop? I got a dell inspiron 1501 laptop with a 80Gb sata drive what is the best solution to add data storage space for someone that love to have multiples operating systems at hand ... Note: I use mostly linux so I won't need to change my laptop for many years... Started by zillion on Monday, January 25, 2010, 3 posts by 3 people.   Read the full thread at superuser Discuss this with your friends on Facebook Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at superuser): Also, do you use virtual machines or do you have a multiple OS boot systemHighly recommended that you buy an upgraded internal drive unless you need more than 1 tb which is the biggest 2.5 drive out there.... On hard drive sizes.

How to detect if any specific drive is a hard drive? In C# how do you detect is a specific drive is a Hard Drive, Network Drive, CDRom, or floppy? Started by StubbornMule on Monday, September 29, 2008, 5 posts by 5 people.   Read the full thread at stackoverflow Discuss this with your friends on Facebook Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at stackoverflow): Removable, // The drive.... NoRootDirectory, // The drive does not have a root directory. DriveInfo d in allDrives) { Console.WriteLine("Drive {0}", d.Name); Console.WriteLine(" File type: {0, // The type of drive is unknown.

How do you copy a physical hard drive to a Vmware virtual hard disk? Is there any way to copy a physical hard drive to a virtual drive for use in Vmware Workstation? Started by Nick Berardi on Wednesday, October 22, 2008, 8 posts by 8 people.   Read the full thread at stackoverflow Discuss this with your friends on Facebook Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at stackoverflow): For instance: Use ".... There are far easier ways. If you as the drive it's a copy of, so you'll want to do this on another drive. You can just 'dd' your /dev/hda or /dev/hda1 to a file . Of the source hard drive, though.

How does a hard drive compare to Flash memory working as a hard drive in terms of speed? Some experiment I did with hard drive read/write speed was 10MB/s write and 40MB/s read, and with a USB Flash drive, it can be 5MB/s write and 10MB/s read. Also, if I put a virtual hard drive .vhd file in a hard drive or in a USB Flash drive and try a... Started by Jian Lin on Tuesday, November 03, 2009, 3 posts by 3 people.   Read the full thread at superuser Discuss this with your friends on Facebook Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at superuser): So even if your flash memory was the same speed in both cases, the drive would have a higher, but 1.0 is very slow) and USB-port.... One big difference is that the flash drive is using the USB bus, while the drive is using the SATA bus.

Laptop crash, and now my external hard drive is saying "Drive is not formatted. Format now?" Hi, My external hard drive is now saying "Drive not formatted. Format now?". Can you recommend some hard drive rescue and repair utilities? I know the data is still there, as there is nothing wrong with the hard drive. Here's what happened: I have a laptop... Started by Gravitas on Monday, November 02, 2009, 4 posts by 4 people.   Read the full thread at superuser Discuss this with your friends on Facebook Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at superuser): Ubuntu or Backtrack ), Linux. Chkdsk e: /r assuming your drive is e: Try a Linux LiveCD (e.g.

If a computer has 3 hard drives, can you set it up to boot to XP, Vista, and Win 7 on each hard drive? Possible Duplicate: How to install Ubuntu, Windows XP and Windows 7 from scratch as triple-boot system One of my HP computers has 3 hard drives: 2 of 250GB and a removable Media hard drive that is 300GB. Can I keep the Vista on first hard drive and easily... Started by Jian Lin on Thursday, October 22, 2009, 5 posts by 5 people.   Read the full thread at superuser Discuss this with your friends on Facebook Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at superuser): Also, What sort of removable Media hard drive have you.... On the other hand, will relegate you to either using the bios to choose which hard drive to boot or editing on a primary partition, but will install on a logical one.