I decided to chance it and plugged the new harddrive into the laptop and all has been well for over an hour (I’m posting this on the laptop). Maybe this is why MaxBlast had such problems before? Worryingly it reported 17 read errors off the source disk but no write errors to the new disk. This time, I clicked a few “nexts” and off it went. I burned the bootable image to CD and started up the old desktop again. I mailed the support address and got a reply at midnight their time (Germany)! The mail with the code would automatically follow later. I paid via paypal but was confused as to how I got my hands on the software. Not much more than the bottle of wine I was drinking.
I went on to the site and realised it was only €19.90 for the Basic Version.
But when I asked it to clone, it returned with a message saying that the free version only supports copying to a bigger disk, it would not handle same-sized disks and I would need to upgrade to HDClone Basic. All looked well and both disks were visible. Last night I assembled a desktop from spare parts, put the two laptop hard drives in it, burned the HDClone Free Edition to CD and booted it up. Recently I saw mention of HDClone on Lifehacker and they recommended it as a free solution to cloning hard drives. I have always used Maxtor MaxBlast to do this in the past but this time it had serious problems with the source disk and I never managed to do the cloning. Not being a complete idiot, I also purchased two 2.5" to 3.5" disk cable adapters so I could plug both the old and new drives into a spare desktop and clone one to the other. Ages ago I bought a replacement 5400 rpm drive of the same capacity (80GB) from. It really slowed down an otherwise speedy machine. But one thing which has always annoyed me is the 4800 rpm Hard Drive. My Acer 2026 laptop has very few features I don’t like.
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