{"id":118,"date":"2005-12-13T21:03:08","date_gmt":"2005-12-14T03:03:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ourada.org\/blog\/archives\/118"},"modified":"2005-12-13T21:03:08","modified_gmt":"2005-12-14T03:03:08","slug":"hd-upgrades-are-easy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ourada.org\/blog\/archives\/118","title":{"rendered":"HD upgrades are easy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Being a veteran of a number of hard drive replacement-upgrades (probably 15&#8230; not a huge number, but not a little one), I&#8217;m accustomed to a good deal of annoyance in the process, <em>especially<\/em> with laptops. But the technology has settled down somewhat and I&#8217;m happy to report that my recent HD upgrade in my laptop was a relief relative to my other experiences.<\/p>\n<p>I used <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hitachigst.com\/portal\/site\/en\/menuitem.6e185ca3ee5b04d2fce80bd5eac4f0a0\/\">Hitachi&#8217;s Notebook PC Upgrade kit<\/a>. It was only $20 more than the competing product that didn&#8217;t include an outboard enclosure, and I can always use another enclosure if I&#8217;m going to be orphaning a hard drive anyway.<\/p>\n<p>The enclosure and software came from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.apricorn.com\/product_details.php?ID=220\">Apricorn<\/a>, a company I hadn&#8217;t heard of but am now suitably impressed with. The software was miles better than any other bundled drive migration software I&#8217;ve used before. This product isn&#8217;t the only positive factor in my success today (for example, OSs are better at dealing with changed hardware and connectors and compartments are more standardized), but I&#8217;m still impressed.<\/p>\n<p>Here are some of the pains I <em>didn&#8217;t<\/em> have to deal with in this upgrade that I&#8217;ve had to live with in the past:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>having Windows get confused and fail to boot because the drive letter changed<\/li>\n<li>having to clone my Windows and Linux partitions with completely different processes<\/li>\n<li>having to boot off a rescue CD and restore the boot loader to get dual-boot back<\/li>\n<li>dealing with file-in-use problems<\/li>\n<li>waiting 3 hours for the clone to finish<\/li>\n<li>cursing myself for having trusted the bundled software and restarting the entire process<\/li>\n<li>having a drive hanging out the side of the machine attached by an IDE connector (I assume those things aren&#8217;t made to bear a load&#8230;)<\/li>\n<li>having to image the drive to a network drive and then back because there was nowhere else to plug in the new drive<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Ahhh.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Being a veteran of a number of hard drive replacement-upgrades (probably 15&#8230; not a huge number, but not a little one), I&#8217;m accustomed to a good deal of annoyance in the process, especially with laptops. But the technology has settled down somewhat and I&#8217;m happy to report that my recent HD upgrade in my laptop [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[25,51],"class_list":["post-118","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-hardware","tag-software","author-admin"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ourada.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ourada.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ourada.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ourada.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ourada.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=118"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ourada.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ourada.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=118"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ourada.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=118"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ourada.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=118"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}