Bought a new PC, oh how I forgot thine pleasures my dear....

[GoVegan]

FOR THE LOVE OF ALL THAT IS HOLY... please someone help me with this ridiculous issue I am having.

I bought a Seagate Barracuda 3TB 7200RPM HDD and I got it all installed okay, but what I am trying to do is make a clone of my existing 1.5 TB drive onto my new one os that I can use my new HDD as the boot/master that will host my OS and all my programs.

In other words, I had a 5400 RPM 1.5TB hard drive and I want to move everything to the new 3TB 7200 RPM HDD. The problem is that in their stupid disc utility tool used to clone the drives it only shows as having 745.6 GB available for some reason so it won't clone the drive. I then got a copy of Norton Ghost 15 and that won't make a clone of my existing disc either...


I have spent nearly 12 consecutive hours on this. Does anyone know how to make a copy of one hard drive and move it onto another, so that I can then use my newer faster hard drive as my main hard drive? I've read everything on the entire internet I swear and nothing is working.

Geek Squad.

http://www.bestbuy.com/site/Geek+Squ...&skuId=8835503

[lxskllr]

Try Clonezilla. It has a user hostile interface, but it should do what you want.

http://clonezilla.org/

[GoVegan]

I am not joking about the Geek Squad thing. I remember just transferring my songs was a pain the last time I bought a computer. I spent hours on the net trying to figure it out and even tried it using my ipod and a flash drive. For $49.99, let them worry about it.

[lxskllr]

I wouldn't let Geek Squad change my wallpaper. They'd probably screw it up. If you really want someone to do it for you, checkout Craigslist. The work will be tax free, and you'd be supporting small business. That should be a quick and easy job unless the new drive is defective.

[Roo]

FOR THE LOVE OF ALL THAT IS HOLY... please someone help me with this ridiculous issue I am having.

I bought a Seagate Barracuda 3TB 7200RPM HDD and I got it all installed okay, but what I am trying to do is make a clone of my existing 1.5 TB drive onto my new one os that I can use my new HDD as the boot/master that will host my OS and all my programs.

In other words, I had a 5400 RPM 1.5TB hard drive and I want to move everything to the new 3TB 7200 RPM HDD. The problem is that in their stupid disc utility tool used to clone the drives it only shows as having 745.6 GB available for some reason so it won't clone the drive. I then got a copy of Norton Ghost 15 and that won't make a clone of my existing disc either...


I have spent nearly 12 consecutive hours on this. Does anyone know how to make a copy of one hard drive and move it onto another, so that I can then use my newer faster hard drive as my main hard drive? I've read everything on the entire internet I swear and nothing is working.

Huh? Sucker.

[shikitohno]

Geek Squad.

http://www.bestbuy.com/site/Geek+Squ...&skuId=8835503

Okay, GoVegan is officially banned from giving computer advice.

sgreger, to save yourself from future hassles, I'd recommend making yourself an OS partition and a data partition in the future. Say you want to install a few games, give your OS partition 100GB, and make the rest a data partition. This way, in the future if you find yourself in a situation like this, you have an easy out. Pop in your install disk, recreate the OS/data partitions, and install to the OS partition. Then you can just copy over the data on the data partition in a normal file transfer if you wanted to. The real question here though, is why are you making your 3TB HDD your OS/Program drive?

Unless your 1.5TB HDD is bottleneck on your machine, it seems like you're doing things backwards. Why not just leave the 1.5TB HDD as your OS drive and make the new one your data drive? If you have some games or other programs where read/write speeds are important, install them to the 3TB drive, and otherwise just leave your programs on the 1.5TB one. Seems like you're making an issue for yourself where there should be none.

[sgreger1]

Okay, GoVegan is officially banned from giving computer advice.

sgreger, to save yourself from future hassles, I'd recommend making yourself an OS partition and a data partition in the future. Say you want to install a few games, give your OS partition 100GB, and make the rest a data partition. This way, in the future if you find yourself in a situation like this, you have an easy out. Pop in your install disk, recreate the OS/data partitions, and install to the OS partition. Then you can just copy over the data on the data partition in a normal file transfer if you wanted to. The real question here though, is why are you making your 3TB HDD your OS/Program drive?

Unless your 1.5TB HDD is bottleneck on your machine, it seems like you're doing things backwards. Why not just leave the 1.5TB HDD as your OS drive and make the new one your data drive? If you have some games or other programs where read/write speeds are important, install them to the 3TB drive, and otherwise just leave your programs on the 1.5TB one. Seems like you're making an issue for yourself where there should be none.

Okay so I finally got it to work, but now I am rethinking things for the exact reasons you mentioned.

Here's why I did it seemingly backwards: My old hard drive was 5400 rpm, I was thinking that by moving everything to the new faster 7200rpm one that it would increase my read/write speeds. Frankly it has not as far as I can tell.

I am now thinking of going back and just keeping the 1.5 TB as the primary drive and just moving all of my media over to the 3TB one like you suggested. Right now I only have the new one plugged in as the master and was planning on hooking the 1.5tb one as the slave, but I think I am just going to go back to the orriginal setup and make the 3.5 TB one the data storage drive. I was hoping to get improved speeds but am not seeing any noticeable gains on the 7200rpm one so the whole project was a waste of a day.

The only programs I need on the 7200rpm one is my adobe master collection cs 5.5, everything else seems to be working smoothly on the orriginal hard drive.

EDIT: Re: OS Partition. My computer didn't come with an OS disc as far as I can tell, just came loaded with win 7 premium. It has a "system" partition" but that doesn't appear to house the OS. Not sure how to make an OS partition without the disk.

[lxskllr]

Do you have money for a SSD? If so, that would give you blazing performance on your boot drive, and you could use the big ones for data.

[sgreger1]

Do you have money for a SSD? If so, that would give you blazing performance on your boot drive, and you could use the big ones for data.

Well I had some money, but it was either an SSD or larger storage capacity. The need for more capacity won out in the long run. I have 400GB of programs, so an SSD to house all of that would be very expensive. I guess I could get a smaller one and just house the OS and my adobe suite but then I have the problem still of not having enough space to save my media on.

I take a lot of photos and video and keep multiple copies of each (the original RAW file, one large edited one for print, one small version for the web), so every time I use my camera I am eating up like 10GB of space. My 1.5TB hard drive is half full after only a month of use (though most of that is programs or ripped blue-ray movies). Right now I have 5.5 Terrabytes of data in my house, 1.5 on my original drive, 3TB on the second internal drive, and 1TB on my external NAS server that I use as a cloud storage for my family to back up their stuf/share files with (also lets me access them when away from my computer which is convenient).

These are mainly pics and videos of my kid/family so the idea is several levels of redunancy. Right now I am going to house everything on the 1.5tb drive and then auto-back it up to the larger drive, whith the most important folders also backed up on my external NAS server. Then, to top it all off, for $5 a month I have backblaze store all of it in the cloud as well. So in theory this should stop my shit from getting ruined even if any of my 3 drives fail. Because if they do than my entire families "photo album" of sorts is gone forever since I don't retain printed copies for most of it.


I was honestly expecting a significant boost in performance between the 5400RPM drive and the 7200RPM drive since that is what I had heard, but apparently that is not the case for me. In the end though the upgrade was more about extra storage space and less about speeds. When SSD's come down in price i'll definately pick one up, but it's still like $300 for a 150gig SSD which is way too expensive.

[lxskllr]

5400-7200 is a bit faster, but it's subtle. It's not a mind blowing increase as you've seen. Do you really use 400gb of programs, or are you just hording stuff you don't really need? I could easily fit the programs I /use/ in 120gb. There's games and stuff I have installed, but it's not like I'm playing them. They're just sitting there cause I have the space, and I might want to play them one day. I'd prefer the speed over convenience, but that's an individual call.

[Snusdog]

FOR THE LOVE OF ALL THAT IS HOLY... please someone help me with this ridiculous issue I am having.

I bought a Seagate Barracuda 3TB 7200RPM HDD and I got it all installed okay, but what I am trying to do is make a clone of my existing 1.5 TB drive onto my new one os that I can use my new HDD as the boot/master that will host my OS and all my programs.

In other words, I had a 5400 RPM 1.5TB hard drive and I want to move everything to the new 3TB 7200 RPM HDD. The problem is that in their stupid disc utility tool used to clone the drives it only shows as having 745.6 GB available for some reason so it won't clone the drive. I then got a copy of Norton Ghost 15 and that won't make a clone of my existing disc either...


I have spent nearly 12 consecutive hours on this. Does anyone know how to make a copy of one hard drive and move it onto another, so that I can then use my newer faster hard drive as my main hard drive? I've read everything on the entire internet I swear and nothing is working.

All I can say is ...........crap like this never happened during the Regan administration

[sgreger1]

All I can say is ...........crap like this never happened during the Regan administration

Exactly. Why blame the hard drive manufacturer for what is clearly President Obama's fault? WAk3 uP She3PLE!

[resnor]

Wow that all sounds really awesome. I wish I had a cool profession like that

I am trying to get into photography myself lately, I bought a Canon Rebel T3i for my wife for Christmas since she wanted one but ever since I got it I have been really into photography and have hijacked it, spending most of my days reading everything I can about it and shooting as much as possible to try and get better at it. Any tips for someone who is just getting into using DSLR photography? Right now I am trying to figure out how to get lighting right indoors. I bought 2 500 watt shop lamps and a 250 wat lamp and use those for the green screen room that I turned one of my spare bedrooms into, and those do well to keep the lighting even on the green screen, but the light is way too harsh for taking pics of my wife for example or anything else (like my attempts to take pics of our xmas tree last night lol). I am looking into getting some umbrella fixtures and a remote flash to bring some softer light into the picture for when I take portraits. But my real passion is photographing nature, I love going on hikes and just taking pics as I go. Right now all I have is a tripod, the stock kit lens, and a polarizing filte, but that's all I really need right now. If I get rich someday I will buy a better lens but they are so damn expensive that it's kind of out of the question.


Do you ever do any video editing, like after effects or premier or anything? Or is it all mainly 2d mediums that you work with?

I just got a Canon T3 for Christmas, and am learning about it now, too. I second the idea about lenses...so damn expensive. I'm gonna have to make do with the kit lense for quite awhile. I did find out from a friend about site where you can "rent" lenses for a couple days. If you like the lense, you have the option to buy it.

[resnor]

http://www.borrowlenses.com/

This is the website. Seems pretty reasonable. Most lenses only require a deposit on the rental, so a $30 3-day rental will cause a $30 hold on your account, they don't put a hold for the cost of the lense. Worth checking out.

[sgreger1]

I just got a Canon T3 for Christmas, and am learning about it now, too. I second the idea about lenses...so damn expensive. I'm gonna have to make do with the kit lense for quite awhile. I did find out from a friend about site where you can "rent" lenses for a couple days. If you like the lense, you have the option to buy it.

That's awesome that you can rent them! I would totally do that before buying on of these expensive ass lenses. Right now I am making up for it by altering the depth of field in photoshop using plugins like OnOne Software's one that can recreat the look of almost any lens. Does a pretty good job and is free to me so that and the kit lens is all I have to work with right now lol.