can I clone my HD with external parallel drive

[airplayn]

I would like to use Norton Ghost 2001 OR drive image 4.0 to clone a laptop drive into an H45 Parallel external drive to transfer the system and programs to another laptop. What's the best thing to do here?

Tim

 

[airplayn]

I also have an interesting problem, as the new laptop was a dual boot and had a NTSF partition. I cannot delete the allocated space of the old NTSF partition even thopugh I have deleted the FAT 32 partitions using Partition Magic 6.0, and even after rebooting, the old NTSF allocation stays there. It doesn't say NTSF partition any more, but will not release the space for repartitioning, so I am loosing 3 GB of a 9 GB drive. Fdisk will not work either.

 

[Guest_imported]

Depending upon the image size of the drive to be cloned, I'd have thought using a parallel port could take a long time. Do you have a 100Mbps network connection on the laptop? This would be a far quicker way of transfering an image file. Or better still, if it's not too difficult, take the hard disk out of the laptop and attach it to the second IDE port on a desktop machine (you'll need an adaptor for the smaller sized drive).

ROGER - GØAOZ.

 

[airplayn]

The info on my H45 parallel hard drive say it is faster than standard IDE (I am assuming they are talking the 16 and not 33 or 66 IDE). I do have external drive bays set up on my main computer to be able to easily remove and install drives just to do what you are suggesting, but I do not want to go the the trouble of buying new HD adapters etc., by the time you get all the stuff and set it up, it could be finished with the parallel adapter. I was jsut trying to find out if the ghost software would work with a parallel port, but as it using a SCSI emulator(?) adapter I think it should just recognise it as the "next" drive on the computer.