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Recovery CDs vs disk mirroring Andrew 06-01-2006
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Posted by Andrew on June 1, 2006, 8:42 am
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I have my main hard drive going bad (I assume this is the problem - system
slow, chkdsk gives unscannable errors). So I purchased a new hard drive, and
some disk mirroring software. I have attempted to backup everything to a
second hard drive. Now my question is that if there is a problem with the
hard drive that has the system software and I mirror it to the new hard drive
won't I still have system software problems when I install the new drive as
the system drive? I don't have recovery cd's but I can create them. Would
that be the better solution to use? Just install the new hard drive and use
recovery cd's to reinstall the system software?

Thanks for any insight you can give.

Andrew H.


Posted by Michael J. Mahon on June 1, 2006, 2:40 pm
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Andrew wrote:
> I have my main hard drive going bad (I assume this is the problem - system
> slow, chkdsk gives unscannable errors). So I purchased a new hard drive, and
> some disk mirroring software. I have attempted to backup everything to a
> second hard drive. Now my question is that if there is a problem with the
> hard drive that has the system software and I mirror it to the new hard drive
> won't I still have system software problems when I install the new drive as
> the system drive? I don't have recovery cd's but I can create them. Would
> that be the better solution to use? Just install the new hard drive and use
> recovery cd's to reinstall the system software?
>
> Thanks for any insight you can give.

Yes, you will be mirroring your problems... ;-(

-michael

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