Not old, I'm still running PATA! I just got a package in this week, Geeks had 120G refurb Seagate PATAs for 17.99. My newest mobo has SATA but it's only 1.5 and I've tried several times to get one stable, but can't get one to run longer than five minutes before blue screening. I fought drivers, power supply, I'll blame it on the mobo.
A bought Acronis True Image, but a friend of mine bought Acronis True Image Plus. THAT is the one to get. It somehow removes the drivers so you can load your image or clone a drive to a different set of hardware.
Now that you mentioned it, I remembered one time about sectors, but it occurred during the backup process. The source drive was flaky. It never would finish, it would stop and tell me forget it. I searched around, chkdsk /r resolved it.
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Watch Newegg, Amazon, and others, they'll put it on sale or with a rebate. Of course older versions are available on ebay dirt cheap, and with PATA, that's all we'll ever need.
Then again, I like the price of Seagate's Acronis... |
