Tandy 1000 RL
Posted on 02/03/2011 6:46:01 PM PST by free_life
I want to copy my 250 Gig Hard Drive to another 250 Hard Drive. I have been doing this for years with Drive Image using the 'drive copy' function in DI7. Now I get an error message "the service did not start due to a logon failure" and the drives do not show up in DI's GUI interface.
I have not been able to figure how to correct this problem.
I like to copy my whole HD not just make an image, that way if my drive ever fails I just pop the other drive in and I am up and running. I use removable IDE hard drive cages. I am running XP Pro SP2. I have a C: a D: and a E: partitions.
I have been looking around online at other possible drive or partition copy software and finding it kind of daunting.
Any help would be appreciated. Excuse the vanity but where else is an Freeper going to go for good advise?
First I used was a Heathkit with cassette tape, a friends.
I am considering a laptop with windows 7, my 5 year old P4 Acer’s TFT died. But I like having a desktop too and yep it is maybe time to build myself a new one. This PC with Asus MB that I built myself has been a good machine since 2005 (i think, maybe older) no crashes, no re-installs of XP Pro, no hardware failures, all malware has been caught and crushed (I think & hope), but time marches on.
Well, OK, you got me beat. But did you own it? If that's not a consideration my "first" computer was an Amdahl 7000 with punch cards. :-)
Nice. Those homebuilts can be awesome. Well done.
I think you’ll find Win 7 to be among the better products that the Lazy-M ranch has produced. XP sp3 was pretty rock solid, but IMHO, 7 is better.
Ok, it says “Logon failure: unknown user name or bad password.”
I have not changed password for years. The XP admin password, yes?
User name has not changed either.
LOL!
I’m 35 and my first PC was an 8086 with 512K of RAM but that was after we upgraded it. Tandy 1000RL.
MS-DOS Lives!
I started with DOS 3. I was an XCOPY badass and could do all kinds of fornicated things with QBasic.
The good ole’ days!
Yea you could be right.
I store the clone at a friends and have all data backed up onto another here at home. Both are in removeable HD cages.
I would use a new program like CP/M the command is PIP B:=C:\*.*
Acronis is the best.
You can get the Western Digital version from Western Digital or the Seagate Version (they call it something else but it’s the same Acronis software) from Seagate.
Either can be installed directly and used or they allow you to create a bootable thumb drive also.
Then it’s just source drive, destination drive, enter and done.
256GB will take only 20 or 30 minutes.
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I think WindowsXP already comes with it’s own software for doing this, but in addition to an external high capacity drive, you will also need a floppy drive to make a bootable disc for the time when you may need to install the back up.
That’s nice... but that’s an early 80’s Tandy. My heathkit was at least five years, probably more, early than that. Hell... that’s a color screen and has a 3.5in drive. That’s late 80’s even.
The Heathkit I learned on was monochrome green-screen, with a panasonic cassette tape player as the storage device. I don’t recall an exact date... but it must have been about the mid to late 70’s.
Ok thanks Sledge I will check it out and see if there is something out of whack.
Acronis will do a complete clone also. It is often used to copy a smaller boot drive to a larger replacement.
I have been using it for both back ups and cloning.
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