GOT MY OLD HARD DRIVE CLONED

Already had a WD external hard drive and a "SPOTMAU" as you can see above and didn't realize it had a cloning device. I have been using Spotmau to keep my laptop tuned up. The cloning went effortlessly in 2.5 hours. I used the "disk to disk" as shown above. My new Hitachi 500GB 7200 RPM will be in tomorrow [Thursday] and the big question now how do I get the clone onto the new hard drive. Spotmau came with a boot-up disk. Do i start with it? Any suggestions from you computer gurus will be appreciated. Thanks for the help

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Rich DeRuiter

the big question now how do I get the clone onto the new hard drive. Spotmau came with a boot-up disk. Do i start with it? Any suggestions from you computer gurus will be appreciated. Thanks for the help

That would be a question for a Spotmau or WD forum, or tech support.

The wiki has a section on non-supported moving of L4 from one computer to another, and you could try one of those methods. But if you can truly clone your old HD (not just copy the data, but the entire disk, operating system, registry and all), that should not be necessary.

Bohuslav Wojnar

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/151789#Comment_151789

Sam, I made cloning of the hard disk a few times recently since I had 2 HD break downs [:(]

I used Norton Ghost and it offered option to make a resque disk with the Ghost on it and I booted from that disk and asked Ghost to restore HD from the image on the external disk. It worked perfect. I did it also with the Windows Backup utility in the Vista Business OS. I don't remember the way exactly. One thing I can tell you is that if you have a bit copy of your HD (image of the disk) it really makes your disk working (bootable etc.) exactly as your original HD.

Look at your program and find out how the restore from the image should function. Now I see you have a bootable disk with the program. It should make the trick. Look at it.

EDITED: I would use the option in your program "Disk to Image" and than "Image to Disk". I am not sure if Disk to Disk method is actually a bit copy of the disk or just copy of all data from the previous HD.

Mark Smith

Looks like what you need is right there:

Do read the help file, however.

Sam West

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/151803#Comment_151803

Looks like what you need is right there:

But Mark will I be able to see that with the new Hard Drive? i am working with the New Hard Drive with nothing on it. Is this where the Boot-up disk comes in? so help me i have read all the instructions with in Spotmau and it says nothing about transferring the data

thanks mark

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Do read the help file, however.

Bohuslav Wojnar

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/151818#Comment_151818

But Mark will I be able to see that with the new Hard Drive? i am working with the New Hard Drive with nothing on it. Is this where the Boot-up disk comes in? so help me i have read all the instructions with in Spotmau and it says nothing about transferring the data

thanks mark

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Do read the help file, however.

Sam, did you try to boot from your bootable CD? If you do that, does it give you any interface to work with? If yes, it should be restore from the image option there.

The other way is to have a special case to be able to put the new HD into it and connect with your notebook via USB cable. (You can buy such case for a couple of dollars). Than you do cloning to that disk and it should work. (You can use that case with your old HD as an external HD later).

I would use bootable CD as option #1

Dave Hooton

Already had a WD external hard drive and a "SPOTMAU" as you can see above and didn't realize it had a cloning device. I have been using Spotmau to keep my laptop tuned up. The cloning went effortlessly in 2.5 hours. I used the "disk to disk" as shown above.

Ok. You have cloned the current drive to WD external.

You need to know if the computer will automatically boot from the Spotmau CD or if you have to tell it to do that! So put the Spotmau CD in the drive and boot the computer whilst observing what keyboard menu options are listed at the bottom of the screen. If it doesn't boot from the CD you will have to use the Boot Menu option (F12 key usually) and select CD/DVD as the device. Worst case you will have to go into the Setup menu (Del or F1) and make some changes there.

When you get the new drive:-

replace current drive with new drive in computer [might not be so easy if you have a laptop]
boot computer from Spotmau CD
choose Disk to Disk & copy from external WD to new drive
remove CD and boot the computer (it should run from the new HD!)

If you are unsure about anything then choose the default Spotmau option. At worst you can go back to using the current drive!

Sam West

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/152043#Comment_152043

Thanks a lot Dave. I printed all your instructions off and have a copy in case my boot up doesn't work. Well my new HB should be here at any time and we will see what happens

Dave Hooton

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/152137#Comment_152137

Well my new HB should be here at any time and we will see what happens

Whilst waiting, check whether the CD will boot and that it will recognise your WD external drive & main drive (the CD version of one of my programs picked up the external drive but didn't recognise the main hard drive!).