firmware on the drive? Is that a
> costly operation? I do have a small electronics lab here and might be
> able to attempt that. I don't think my friend can afford the services of
> Kroll or Ontrack.
>
> Thanks
>
> Bob
>
>
> Andre Tertling wrote:
>> Did
Did you check the master/slave jumpers? WD drives have three different
settings, one for single drive, one for master with slave present and
one for slave drive. The wrong ID string leads me to the assumption that
the part of the firmware that's being loaded from the platter during
startup is b
Hi David,
> It happened to me with a 20 GB and 250 GB drive.
I'd like to have more details about this :)
> But hey, if you say it doesn't matter, then it doesn' matter.
Sorry, but that's just ridiculous :)
> Why spending time adding 4 lines to the FAQ, when you can add 200 to the
> mail list
Hi David,
> Second issue:
> Clone a windows disk to another.
> With _different_ geometry (that is sector and head count).
You'll have a hard time finding a HD that does report a different head
count than 16 (if you don't force it to report e.g. 15 for stone-age
compatibility)...
Once again, so
Thijs Boonstra wrote:
> At first everything seems to work fine, the download starts but freezes
> around ~300MB every time (give or take a megabyte). The FTP server
> itself doesn't show any weird behaviour. No errors in FTP logs. After
> g4u freezes I can't ctrl-c out, the client completely locks
Robert,
as fas as I know, there is no such feature (yet?). Except for the gzip
compression which at least reduces the amount of plain text that could
be snooped on a network with hubs instead of switches.
Best regards,
Andre
> Can g4u encrypt a hard drive image before transmitting it over the
Robert,
despite the comfort that the ftp transfer offers, I find a local cloning
operation to be much faster. Assuming fast ethernet results in a
theoretical maximum data rate of 12.5 megabytes per second, in reality
often enough much less. Cloning runs at almost the max speed of the
drives th
Hi Robert,
> Thank you, and I downloaded the gparted_livecd-beta-0.8.5.1 beta (that
> looks like the latest?) as a result. I'll play with it over this week so
> I can get some experience with it. You don't need to apologize about
> forgetting the tips. You pointed me to a valuable tool for my t
Hi Robert,
thanks for the feedback. I apologize for forgetting vital time-saving
tips :( You know, when you do something often enough, details become
routine and thus unimportant. But in the end you managed to fix things
and you learnt a lot from doing so - all's well that ends well ;)
In the
*I'm sorry, I forgot to add the mailing list to the recipient list :(
Here is my initial answer to Robert :)
===SNIP===
Hi Robert,
> I would like to copy a Windows 2000 Professional (Service Pack 4) hard
> disk with this partition arrangement (as listed by diskmgmt.msc):
>
> Drive letter C: is
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