Ultrabay T60 and sata hard drive for clone

[AuroraGuy]

1. I purchased the ultrabay for the T60
2. I purchased the Hibachi 60gb hard drive (identical to whats inside the T60)

Now...what I am after is the following:

1. I want to simply CLONE the drive thats inside the T60 to the Hibachi in the Ultrabay. In the past on my R40, I used a USB floppy with Ghost on it (via DOS) and it worked perfect. Ghost only 'sees' one drive no matter whether I use compatible or not.

I therefore found a demo of Acronis and installed that. I then thought I made a bootable USB flash drive. Well when I try to boot off of the USB flash drive, it just sits. The monitor shows me a blinking cursor and nothing else.


What is the very basic I need to do to make my idea work?
Its only for disaster recovery (virus or failed drive for example)...and not for use within XP for extra storage or anything like that.

The solution must not involve XP or windows ideally.

Help!

-JD

[darrenf]

FWIW, I did exactly what you tried except I used the PATA drive adapter and a PATA drive. It worked great. The new drive was even a different capacity. I copied the boot sector, pre-boot and main partition. I could boot off the cloned drive and later I cloned the image back to a different SATA drive.

I was using Ghost 2k2 off of a floppy disk and it saw both drives. I believe I used sector-copy mode but I can't be sure. I turned on compatiblity mode and disabled hiding the pre-boot partition.

Perhaps there is a problem with the drive or adapter -- can you see the drive from within Windows?

-darren

[AuroraGuy]

XP can see the drive just fine.

For now, I was able to download the demo of Acronis 9 and used that. It did work....but I was looking for something that didnt involve windows

Also, acronis has programs that run and ironically it slows the machine down. So after I mirrored the drives, I deleted Acronis.

I am working on locating a copy of Ghost 10 at work to see how that compares.

I am not sure there is a way to do what I seek (ALL SATA) from outside windows.

-JD

[darrenf]

What's odd is that the SATA drive in the Ultrabay Slim adapter is being adapted to PATA. I wonder what is unique about that configuration that is different from mounting a native PATA drive.

-darren

[tselling]

Have you tried: http://www.bootitng.com/bootitng.html ?
I have used BootItNG for years to clone drives.