Clone and Swap with Larger HD

[scar97]

Most of the people I know here use acronis. Hell I just bought a larger drive for my office laptop today. It was an IDE (not sata like in the studio pcs). Hooked up to usb, attached the IDE cable, initialized the disk, did a quick format and the fired up acronis...bingo new larger drive and stored the old one for backup. It was only an 80 gig but it took about 20 minutes. I could care less what happens to it now.

I would be willing to bet that most of us have at least 5-10 spare sata drives with different clones on them.

If you are in the middle of a session and the drive crashes (not a matter of if but when) you unplug, plug the backup in, reboot...rock and roll.

Best insurance on the market for system restore.

[Keybeeetsss]

Scarrrrrrrrrz

[mykhal c]

Originally Posted by Shan

This needs to be standard procedure for any PT rig without question.

Shane

ANY rig...IMHO

[spkguitar]

Originally Posted by mykhal c

ANY rig...IMHO

+10,000

Anyone who uses a computer... period... should be taking these precautions.

[albee1952]

AMEN!!!. I have cloned system drives for most of my computers, several for my PT machine, and drive images of everything I own.

[scar97]

Originally Posted by Keybeeetsss

Scarrrrrrrrrz

Key KB. How ya doin oneim? Sorry I have been quiet for a while. Been working with Radar and Sadie latley. Still doing some mixing with protools but waiting to build a new I7 and let 8.04 settle down. You think it is time to make the jump? If so tell me the baddest I7 build you know of. I got cases, drives etc. I just want to know what to expect. I am about to move to a 64 bit system and want to know if it is really worth it and what problems I may encounter. The I7 build thread would take me a week to read and I need to do it right the first time.

Good to see all you guys. I will try to be more interactive. I got pissed at avidesign for a while I am over it.