Little trick to swap a clicking hard drive.

[ghache]

Yesterday i came back from work and find out that my main hard drive was clicking.
This means its going away.

I dont have any data on it except my os and all the application i have installed including photoshop with actions, customs settings, lightroom with presets and also a bunch of customs settings that would be a pain in the ass to reconfigure.

So i went and bought a new hard 1 terabyte hard drive (the old one was 500 gig). Installed norton ghost to create a clone of the hard drive with 3-4 easy steps to follow.. After everything was done, swapped the cables and the new upgraded hard drive was running within a minute.

Just a little advice for everyone, dont wait untill the it crash to replace it

 

[480sparky67 66]

Now to backup your new hard drive.............

 

[ghache]

Now to backup your new hard drive.............

another hard drive of course.

 

[Village Idiot]

I have two 500GB HDDs in my computer for one operating system. One has the OS and one has a cloned drive incase somethign happens to the first. It's a good thing my case has 10 drive bays.

 

[Dao]

Just a little advice for everyone, dont wait untill the it crash to replace it

You are lucky.