Heart(disk) transplant*
My laptop hard disk was running out of
space and also starting making funny noises. So it was time for a new one.
First I though to reinstall everything from scratch. This would take some
days time (actually hours squeezed into spare time over a few days) which
I can't afford right now. So I started to look for an easy way out. I found
TruImage from Acronis.
It allowed me to clone my hard disk partition to the new drive that I had
attached temporarily through USB. It also allowed to resize the partition
in that process. Since my laptop has only USB1 copying the partition took
a few hours (unattended). At the end TruImage shut down the PC, I flipped
hard disks and now I'm a happy camper. Acronis provides a 14 day trial,
so for a one off exercise it is free. TruImage does backup too, so I consider
buying it.
* The pun does only work when spoken, not written.
* The pun does only work when spoken, not written.
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Posted by Erik Bruchez At 22:04:07 On 10/04/2005 | - Website - |
The only big annoyance with v8.0 is the inability to specific exceptions to prevent a particular backup schedule from running. e.g. 1st day of the month perform Full backup, rest of the month (daily) do so Incrementally except for day 1 - that cannot be done.
v9.0 is out but i haven't upgraded to find out if it includes this functionality now.
Posted by Aaron Seet (icelava) At 09:32:24 On 10/06/2005 | - Website - |