Disk Copying SCSI drive question

[Zepher]

I've got some 18gig Seagate Barracudas as my system drives on 2 of my machines and I just recently bought a 160 and a 250gig drive so now I freed up all the space on my 2 36gig Cheetahs and would like to make those the new system drives for the 2 machines. I bought a program called EZ-Drive (I bought the retail version so it would work with any IDE drive) a couple of years ago but it doesn't work with SCSI.

What would be the easiest and best method without having to reinstall XP Pro?

thanks

 

[Ice Czar]

well...
possibly the manufacturer of the new HDDs will have a clone utility (generally bundled with the dianostic suite available free for download)
that will do it

Ghost will do it
and thats a pretty good guide, (the Symantec version, which is the enterprise version, while the Norton Version is the consumer) is probably the most powerful program going with all sorts of switches to deal with almost any situation but is considered advanced

in the freeware arena the is g4u and HDD Clone, both are on the Ultimate Boot CD (Freeware ISO)

Powerquest DriveImage got bought by Symantec
Acronis has True Image
Im not sure if they deal with SCSI though youd need to read up

Id say work with the freeware first
g4u has a learning curve but will do it
HDD Clone freeware version is rudimentary and may not
the Manufacturers utilities might
Ghost will and if I was paying money it would be my top choice


both Drive Image and True Image has good user interfaces, but then so does Norton Ghost, and the Symantec version is far more powerful, but you might never need that

 

[ambit]

If you have an Adaptec 2940UW/U2W card laying around,
Go to http://www.bootdisk.com/ and create a Win ME boot disk. ME comes with Adaptec ASPI drivers in it.
Boot from that and land at the A:\> prompt.
I then used Ghost 7.5 from another floppy to do SCSI disk to disk.

 

[Zepher]

Thanks for the replies.
Both machines use a 2940UW card (too cheap to get a better one).