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Giveaway of the Day Forums » Tag: software - Recent Posts http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/tags/software Giveaway of the Day Forums » Tag: software - Recent Posts en-US Sun, 12 Feb 2012 12:58:48 +0000 http://bbpress.org/?v=1.0.2 hotdoge3 on "Your Favourite and/ or Most Useful Give Away Of The Day" http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/984/page/3#post-95234 Mon, 19 Sep 2011 05:00:33 +0000 hotdoge3 95234@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ Ashampoo a-squared Anti Malware Easy Clone Detective Paragon Process Lasso Bitsum Technologies 5.0.0.24 Visual Search Pony version 7.52 Visual Search Pony 7.52 WinUtilities 9.98 Professional Edition YL Computing, Inc I only fit the best ? BuBBy on "Your Favourite and/ or Most Useful Give Away Of The Day" http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/984/page/3#post-95047 Tue, 13 Sep 2011 02:26:08 +0000 BuBBy 95047@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ List of favorites is rather long (obviously the "most favorite" GOTD ones - I have purchased). I'm only listing the ones (I remember) that I have purchased/non-GOTD releases (many as a direct result of the GOTD promotion). Where I purchased a license when a DIFFERENT program from the same developer was on GOTD - I put the GOTD promotion title in brackets. Just goes to show when the software appears on GOTD (and it is good - I'm usually a tough judge) - it results in sales. When I see potential or I have a serious interest in the software - I may offer to help testing and reviewing new versions (my professional background is in software development). Allmynotes Organizer Deluxe Anvir Taskman Pro Atmosphere Deluxe Backup2usb (Backup4all Lite) Cacheman (Linkman Pro) Capturesaver Chameleon Startup Manager Chameleon Task Manager Defensewall Personal Firewall (Defensewall Hips) Disk Space Fan Pro Flow [now available as open source] Hippoedit Link Collector Pc Link Collector Portable (Link Collector Pc) Linkman Pro Listary Pro Maxa Cookie Manager (Security Tools) Netbalancer Pro Paragon Backup & Recovery 10.0 Home Paragon Hard Disk Manager 2010 Suite Paragon Virtualization Manager 2010 Professional Perfectclock Professional Process Lasso Recentx Smart Diary Suite Sticky Password Superlauncher True Launch Bar Usb Safely Remove Winsnap Winstep Extreme (Nexus Ultimate) Zentimo Whiterabbit-uk on "Your Favourite and/ or Most Useful Give Away Of The Day" http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/984/page/3#post-95043 Mon, 12 Sep 2011 23:58:18 +0000 Whiterabbit-uk 95043@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ I though I'd resurrect this thread. Rather than list the top three programs you've found most useful just list those that you've found useful over the last few years or since you started visiting the giveaway project, and those that you've purchased (if any) My list isn't in any order of preference. I've starred those that I've purchased (Though to be honest I can't remember all of the ones I've purchased) 1) Zoner Photo Studio 13 (loved this ever since we got version 9 and haven't bothered to install my copy of Photoshops since using it. It doesn't have most of what Photoshops has, but it does have everything I need for simple photo editing) 2) Robotask 3) Paragon Partition Manager 4) Magic score 5) Driver Magician 6) Outpost Security Suite (considering subscribing when year is up) 7) Aston 2 8) Mamutu (considering subscribing when year is up) 9) Paragon Backup & Recovery (love the rescue disc) & Paragon Rescue Kit Pro 10) Process Lasso * 11) Game Booster Premium 12) Dark Castle, Ancient Castle, Dinosaur, Nautilus, Planet Earth 3D, Planet Jupiter, Solar System - Earth 3D, Solar system 3D, The Lost Watch, Sun Village, Moon 3D, Mars 3D, and Mechanical Clock 3D Screensavers (led me to purchase a few others) 13) Multiset 14) Ay Recovery (I purchased an earlier version of this called Eaz Fix) * 15) Hippo Edit 16) Sticky Password 17) Returnil Virtual system 18) Photo Colorizer 19) InPaint 20) Tabbles 21) Daemon Tools Pro 22) Atmosphere * 23) Folder Marker Pro * 24) Easy Macro Recorder 25) Anvir Task Manager * (went on to purchase Anvir Security Suite with three years of sun=bscription to the antivirus part of the ptrrogrm. Still undecided about which is best Anvir or Process Lasso though Lasso doesn't have the AV addition) 26) Buffer Zone (not sure which I prefer Buffer Zone or Returnil intend to purchase oe of them when I can afford to) 27) All Media Grabber 28) Keriver Image (ended up purchasing Acronis after trying this one out) 29) Double Safety 30) Advanced URL Catalog 31) Bee Icons 32) Starburn v12 33) Picture Collage Maker 34) Morpheus Photo Morpher * 35) SWF & FLV toolbox 36) Total Network Monitor 37) PD Particles 38) Evernote (considerig purchasing this one) 39) Frigate 3 40) Liquid Story Binder XE 41) Wire Changer * 42) ConceptDraw VI and ConceptDraw Mindmap 43) HDDLife Pro * 44) BlindWrite mikiem2 on "Audio Software" http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/10378#post-94795 Mon, 05 Sep 2011 17:03:43 +0000 mikiem2 94795@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ <blockquote>need to convert some records to MP3</blockquote> I'm not sure how far you want to go with this, e.g. how much time, effort, & $ you want to spend... maybe you can take something from this that you can use? To play the records 1st step of course is the turntable, where more mechanical aspects [tonearm, turntable drive mechanism etc.] matter. The cartridge matters too, but you may be able to save some money if this is a one-off by not worrying about how long the cartridge will last. I'm skeptical you'd find much quality in or with the usual USB turntable affairs for converting a record collection, or all in one units for that matter, & would suggest a regular turntable for home audio or perhaps one of the DJ models. Optional but I think worth it if you had a home audio turntable, a small mixer can take the signal from the turntable, amplifying it as necessary, & provide the output signal to your PC/laptop. I think many DJ turntables might be designed to work with your PC/laptop already. Using the mixer you could make sure the signal was as high or loud as possible without overwhelming the PC/laptop audio electronics [e.g. clipping], allow you to adjust bass/treble &/or provide an equalizer, might have added filtering &/or FX, & would have a separate jack(s) for headphone monitoring of the signal going into your PC/laptop. Alternatively you can always mic your stereo speakers -- using a mic to record what comes out of the speakers has been around a long time. You'd still have to have the turntable, but maybe you'd have use for the microphones when this project was over? For the actual recording, if you wanted the least amount of noise your best bet might be an external recorder -- the electronics inside a PC add interference noise whether you're using the PC's on-board audio chipset, a sound card, or some USB audio. Otherwise look up the specs of how much noise whatever hardware will introduce & compare -- when it comes to digitizing the analog signal you probably won't find a whole lot of difference, so it's more about how much noise brand X will add vs. brand Y. You may well find that on-board chipset is as good as many add-ons, & probably better than some. When you're recording line-in [the mono or stereo signal] the recording software itself isn't going to really effect the recording quality -- all it's doing is taking the ones & zeros your audio hardware gives it & writing that to a file. Higher end stuff lets you add FX on-the-fly, maybe lets you record more than 2 channels, may play back an existing track(s) while it records & so on. If your hardware supports higher bit depth & sampling rates you may need better software to use them, but that's more an oversight on the part of any developers who've left that out, & when the final goal is MP3s, probably irrelevant anyway. You will probably want to record to .wav using your hardware's internal sampling rate [look it up but probably 48 rather than 44.1], then use a noise filter to try & get rid of most of the noise associated with vinyl records. Optionally you might want to do other processing, e.g. normalize, then convert that to MP3. If your MP3s are going to be 44.1 & you recorded at 48, look for software that can use dithering for that resample step. Audacity or Wavosaur should do what you need, but places like Musiciansfriend.com often have home versions of bigger name audio apps on sale -- if you can get the job done during the 30 trial check out Sony's Sound Forge. Idunnobutiwastold on "Audio Software" http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/10378#post-94794 Mon, 05 Sep 2011 16:43:43 +0000 Idunnobutiwastold 94794@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ Found at random, a link to generic instructions on converting audio tapes to MP3 files: <a href="http://lifehacker.com/222394/alpha-geek-how-to-digitize-cassette-tapes" rel="nofollow">http://lifehacker.com/222394/alpha-geek-how-to-digitize-cassette-tapes</a> <a href="http://www.englishstudio-net.com.ar/2011/05/dont-throw-away-those-old-tapes-turn.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.englishstudio-net.com.ar/2011/05/dont-throw-away-those-old-tapes-turn.html</a> Also review the audio card's Help instructions and check the sound settings on your PC (recording / playback levels; primary audio device; selected input on the mixer panel)... <img src="http://image.yogile.com/kxfvpawu/rnliehysbxu4dem0tfox3t.jpg"> Buzz on "Audio Software" http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/10378#post-94789 Mon, 05 Sep 2011 13:33:01 +0000 Buzz 94789@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ <a href="http://www.nch.com.au/wavepad/index.html">Wavepad (free version)</a> ChrisS on "Audio Software" http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/10378#post-94784 Mon, 05 Sep 2011 12:05:07 +0000 ChrisS 94784@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ <a href="http://audacity.sourceforge.net/">Audacity</a> JimN on "Audio Software" http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/10378#post-94780 Mon, 05 Sep 2011 08:45:07 +0000 JimN 94780@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ Have Bench radio with inbuilt cassette Audio recorder and need to convert some records to MP3. Any suggestions please. Bought one piece converter and software but unfortunately can't get it to work. There is no support available from retailer or software developer. Any suggestions please. Jim GerGn on "Hier wat komen babbelen ?" http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/9146#post-90702 Fri, 06 May 2011 04:11:03 +0000 GerGn 90702@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ Palomita, Inderdaad - door de trage goedkeuring van de aangeboden teksten op de hoofdsite van Gotd-nl - is er nauwelijks meer sprake van "babbelen". Hier kan je alleen wat invoeren als je geregistreerd bent. En kan Plankje dus achteraf altijd ingrijpen. Ik betrap me zelf erop dat ik maar uiterst zelden de forums bezoek. Vandaar dat ik nu pas reageer, drie maanden na je posting. En ik ben de eerste ... -------------------------- Misschien moeten jij en ik maar regelmatig naar deze pagina verwijzen vanaf de hoofdpagina, in de hoop lezers en schrijvers te trekken. De link is <a href="http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/9146" rel="nofollow">http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/9146</a> --------------------------- Even inhaken op wat mij zelf op dit moment bezig houdt: ik heb sinds een kleine twee weken een nieuwe laptop, op W7 ditmaal. Ik heb geen zin veel tijd te besteden aan het inrichten en zou dus het liefst van mijn favoriete programma's op mijn Vista laptop een "install" willen maken, zodat ik op de nieuwe laptop niet tijden bezig ben met finetunen van allerlei instellingen. Ik heb wat tips gekregen, onder andere van @^@ en Ootje, maar die noemen software waarmee ik hele partities kan klonen. Dat wil ik niet. Want een Vista Windows-partitie van merk X kan je niet zomaar gebruiken als W7-partitie op merk Y. Er is wel software waarmee je a raison van circa $50 per migratie ALLE software in één keer kan verhuizen van computer A naar computer B. Maar dat wil ik ook niet, want ik wil ook een toekomstige herinstallatie van W7-applicaties op de nieuwe laptop mogelijk maken en dat op applicatieniveau, niet op partitieniveau. ------------------ Een ervaringsfeit van mijn W7-laptop: die heeft twee schermprocessors. Eentje op het moederbord, de andere apart. De laptop moest regelmatig overschakelen, hetgeen tijd kost. Sinds ik Aero heb uitgeschakeld, draait de laptop als een XP/Vista-zonnetje ;). En doet Alt-tab het weer zoals het hoort. Met Aero actief werkte Alt-tab niet en moest ik Win-tab gebruiken. Je ziet dan wel mooi een driedimensionaal overzicht van alle vensters, maar het overschakelen ging klungelig. notblocklox on "Giveaway Alternatives" http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/723/page/2#post-89680 Tue, 29 Mar 2011 11:46:56 +0000 notblocklox 89680@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ An alternative to Aidfile Recovery: <a href="http://www.piriform.com/recuva">Recuva - File Recovery</a> Highly recommended. graylox goodgotd on "Giveaway Alternatives" http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/723/page/2#post-88201 Tue, 01 Feb 2011 04:22:32 +0000 goodgotd 88201@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ SnowFox Total Video Converter can easily be replaced [and bettered] for free by <a href="http://www.freemake.com/">Freemake Video Converter</a> BuBBy on "When-selling-hardware-is-software-piracy" http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/9223#post-87909 Thu, 20 Jan 2011 12:19:23 +0000 BuBBy 87909@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ There are a few points in the article that are not explained fully. Firstly (IANAL...) windows can typically be purchased in two flavours - an OEM (Original Equipment Manufacturer) license or a Retail License. There are others that typically affect businesses - like Volume licenses where the company negotiates to purchase a large quantity of copies of Windows (or Office etc etc) Computer builders usually include an OEM license for the main reason of price. OEM licenses are quite a bit cheaper than retail licenses - which allows the builder to either sell the computer cheaper - or make more profit. Users who wander into a retail outlet will usually see on the shelf, fancy boxed copies of windows - these are the retail copies. The difference between the two - OEM licenses once installed are then associated with that one PC forever. You are not allowed to uninstall an OEM license from one computer and install it on another (newer?) PC. The OEM license is not transferable to another computer. Retail Licenses you may remove from one PC and install on another PC (but only one at a time). The second point that Microsoft started to bundle "diskless" copies of Windows with new PCs that are shipping so Microsoft could make more money - I doubt. If they wanted to make more money they could just drop the OEM license altogether and require every license to be the more expensive Retail license. The reason the OEM license exists, is because many PC Builders include other programs (many that are unwanted by the user), custom drivers, wallpapers and other files to customise the OOBE (Out Of Box Experience). Allowing PC Builders to configure a custom version of Windows to show the new PC in the best light possible to its new owner/purchaser. They also typically include utilities to create recovery/setup disks so you can return the PC back to it's original setup (if things go really wrong). So shipping PCs with a custom copy of windows on the hard disk is less about saving Microsoft money, and more about making life easier (and more flexible) for the PC Builders. Conversely - life as a result isn't always "easier" and "more flexible" for the owner of the PC. As for what is legal/illegal when selling a PC with software. If you include the Retail license on the PC you are selling - you cannot keep it for yourself. You cannot use the OEM license of Windows if you sell the PC (even if you remove OEM windows from the PC you are selling). Some software licenses include a legal clause along the lines that the software is licensed to you and you are not allowed to sell/rent/giveaway the software to anyone else (even if you were to give up the license/possession of the software). I'm doubtful such a clause would stand up if tested in court (for some countries). Some license agreements can be pretty outrageous - but nobody reads them, other than as a cure for insomnia. notblocklox on "When-selling-hardware-is-software-piracy" http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/9223#post-87905 Thu, 20 Jan 2011 09:38:40 +0000 notblocklox 87905@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ That's quite obvious. Isn't it? And no news at all. hotdoge3 on "When-selling-hardware-is-software-piracy" http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/9223#post-87904 Thu, 20 Jan 2011 09:27:03 +0000 hotdoge3 87904@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ <a href="http://www.stuff.co.nz/technology/digital-living/4552166/When-selling-hardware-is-software-piracy" rel="nofollow">http://www.stuff.co.nz/technology/digital-living/4552166/When-selling-hardware-is-software-piracy</a> I want to sell my old computer, but a friend said it was illegal to sell it with Windows and other programs still installed. Is that true? Paul L In certain circumstances, yes. When selling a computer with an operating system installed, it is illegal to do so without also supplying the licence for it, as well as any other licensed software installed. Shareware programs are typically licensed to the buyer, which means if you sell your old machine with the programs installed, you cannot install them on your new machine using the same licence because this would be considered software piracy. Microsoft soon worked out it could maximise profits and reduce piracy further by distributing new machines without Windows disks at all, instead including the required files in a separate folder or special partition on the hard drive. This was all very well until the drive died, whereupon customers were left without an easy means of reinstalling Windows. If you are buying a second- hand machine, ensure you get all relevant licenses with it. If the seller doesn't supply a valid key and you use the computer, you are technically a software pirate. palomita on "Hier wat komen babbelen ?" http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/9146#post-87421 Thu, 06 Jan 2011 10:07:46 +0000 palomita 87421@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ Het zou leuk zijn als hier wat nederlandssprekende mensen zouden komen praten .De laatste tijd vind ik het niet meer zo gezellig op Gotd ,en vroeger was het alle dagen leuk en spannend om op de site te komen kijken .groetjes Dark Raven on "Giveaway Alternatives" http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/723/page/2#post-86532 Wed, 15 Dec 2010 18:01:12 +0000 Dark Raven 86532@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ A very good alternative to 1AVCapture is BB FlashBack Express – at least if it's as good (or better) than version 2.0.2 build 455 (which is the one I've got). To view info and download, go to <a href="http://www.bbsoftware.co.uk/BBFlashBack_FreePlayer.aspx" rel="nofollow">http://www.bbsoftware.co.uk/BBFlashBack_FreePlayer.aspx</a> I believe the program has no spyware. hotdoge3 on "Software Freedom Day" http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/8053#post-82926 Thu, 16 Sep 2010 04:23:53 +0000 hotdoge3 82926@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software_Freedom_Day" rel="nofollow">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software_Freedom_Day</a> Software Freedom Day <a href="http://softwarefreedomday.org/sfi" rel="nofollow">http://softwarefreedomday.org/sfi</a> 18 September 2010. yes Free CD's & may be DVD's and in New Zealand (a collection of Free software for Windows similar to The OpenDisc). We will also have some Ubuntu cds and some WLUG brochures. We may possibly have an Internet connection, but don't count on it. info from <a href="http://wlug.org.nz/" rel="nofollow">http://wlug.org.nz/</a> <a href="http://www.softwarefreedomday.org.nz/" rel="nofollow">http://www.softwarefreedomday.org.nz/</a> hotdoge3 on "Cloning Hard Drive to 2TB Drive and Moving to a New Computer" http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/7946#post-82566 Tue, 07 Sep 2010 03:52:29 +0000 hotdoge3 82566@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ <a href="http://lifehacker.com/5629218/starting-from-scratch-a-step+by+step-guide-to-reinstalling-your-os?skyline=true&s=i" rel="nofollow">http://lifehacker.com/5629218/starting-from-scratch-a-step+by+step-guide-to-reinstalling-your-os?skyline=true&s=i</a> <a href="http://www.easeus.com/disk-copy/" rel="nofollow">http://www.easeus.com/disk-copy/</a> (freeware) goodgotd on "Cloning Hard Drive to 2TB Drive and Moving to a New Computer" http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/7946#post-82516 Mon, 06 Sep 2010 02:04:15 +0000 goodgotd 82516@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ one login, at least, but just a quickie. Lathrop, Califoria. got the mail, left it home. goodgotd on "Cloning Hard Drive to 2TB Drive and Moving to a New Computer" http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/7946#post-82334 Fri, 03 Sep 2010 07:25:47 +0000 goodgotd 82334@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ Not good, I'm afraid. I'll try and log in if I get the chance, but it'll have to be from down there. I'm blowing out of the state asap. copmom on "Cloning Hard Drive to 2TB Drive and Moving to a New Computer" http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/7946#post-82298 Thu, 02 Sep 2010 12:18:20 +0000 copmom 82298@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ Goody.. it's snail mail, sent yesterday, not email, when are you leaving? Oh my!! So very sorry to hear about your sister.. prayers are most certainly going out for her!! What state is she in? Keep us posted!! Hammertime, wonder if today's offer might be the solution for you? It says: Copy Wizard to copy partition or migrate entire hard disk to another without Windows system reinstallation goodgotd on "Cloning Hard Drive to 2TB Drive and Moving to a New Computer" http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/7946#post-82282 Thu, 02 Sep 2010 06:52:21 +0000 goodgotd 82282@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ Haven't found the mail yet, copmom- HammertimeAZ- The seagate 500gig has 4 pins, and I have the jumper installed- I figured with the PCI bus bottlenecking throughput, the original low speed SATA was adequate. the old disk *is* the boot, but it's got enough hours it's gonna die one of these days, so I keep trying. The hitachi's have but 2 pins, but they are matched to 3gb/s SATA ports anyway. As far as I know they are still 512 byte sectors, not the 'enhanced' 4096 byte ones that are gonna give XP a hard time, but bust the 2TB barrier. all is getting dumped into a holding pattern as it looks like I'm going to be leaving the state- my sister has an 'anomalous mass' in the limbic area of the brain, and the 9th she looks to be going in for a biopsy that's 50/50 to survive. And it's inoperable. and if it isn't cancer, radiation is useless. copmom on "Cloning Hard Drive to 2TB Drive and Moving to a New Computer" http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/7946#post-82174 Mon, 30 Aug 2010 21:46:08 +0000 copmom 82174@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ Goody.. watch for the mail! Ask and ye shall receive! HammertimeAZ on "Cloning Hard Drive to 2TB Drive and Moving to a New Computer" http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/7946#post-82165 Mon, 30 Aug 2010 18:40:01 +0000 HammertimeAZ 82165@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ GoodGOTD... Sounds like you already tried the BIOS thing so try this... You may have to change the jumpers on your SATA? I guess there are OS and size limitations that Refer us to Microsoft docs "Q303013" for XP and "Q305098" for Media Ctr. Is the SATA a 3.0Gb/sec attached to a 1.5Gb/sec card or host controllers VIA, VT8237, VT 8237R, VT6420, VT6421L, SIS760 ND SIS964? B/c they do not support auto speed negotiation with 3.0 Gb drives. These systems with the above chip-sets will hang, lock up, or fail to detect the drive during boot...this may be your problem? The recommendation is to: "Apply a jumper to the out-most pins" (closet to the edge of the drive {Back of Drive = [pins 1234...SATA Interface...SATA Power]} - apply to pins 1& 2 of the jumper block (which will force the drive into 1.5Gb/sec transfer mode) allowing it to function with the above mentioned chipsets. For Single Drive Installs…(which it sounds like you are trying?) Windows 2000 and XP require embedded SATA host drivers for embedded motherboards and add-in SATA host cards to be loaded from a Floppy (YUCK!) drive. The SATA driers are usually contained on the CD that came with your MB or host adapter card. You have to extract these prior to installation, however, VISTA will allow them to be installed from a CD. 1. Boot to Windows CD 2. When Prompted by Windows to install 3rd party SCSI or RAID drivers press the F6key then the “S” key when prompted to specify additional devices 3. Insert the SATA driver diskette or CD and press enter 4. Follow the onscreen instructions to finish installing Windows Lastly, if all else fails…use your old disc as your boot and ad the SATA disk as a folder through Disc Manager in the System Management section or set it up as an additional drive(s). Hope some of this info helped? HammermtimeAZ Just another option that sounds like it may be the answer to your troubles??? Good luck and thanks again for the advice! HammertimeAZ goodgotd on "Cloning Hard Drive to 2TB Drive and Moving to a New Computer" http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/7946#post-82096 Sat, 28 Aug 2010 20:39:51 +0000 goodgotd 82096@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ @GMMan- Tried both mirror and (mostly) image programs. including Paragon. First. Drive image XML couldn't see the sata drive. Fat32, NTFS didn't seem to make a difference. Pretty much as I said above, the replies I got back suggested geometry issues. heck, I don't know how to find out the internal geometry- but it can't be near the CHS values and probably the LBA numbers aren't more than translations. I haven't looked up what notation it uses, but I betcha it isn't a match for the actual platters. (I think paragon said drive geometry, driveimage xml said something like if it didn't think it could it wouldn't let you try... like I said, when I come up with a way to try acronis true image I wanna give it a shot- seems more people have gotten happy outcomes with it than others. Maybe they know more about mapping than I. they'd have to.) The raid1 array in the other box I went so far as to slipstream the drivers into a copy of the install disc. Still tossed a brick in my teeth. The drivers are there, it sees the array (I think the thing shows yet another CHS geometry for the array once formed just to tick people off), goes ahead and clean installs right up to the shift to the hdd to complete installation but won't boot to do it. @Robert- I've had LBA access on as far as I can all along. unfortunately, the *PCI card* does the SATA detection on the triple-drive dunce, it AFAIK doesn't have a setting for that- and as is too usual these days the choice is LBA auto or LBA off in the system BIOS. LBA has been an automatic check for on since (or before) I got past 20 gig drives and started dropping in the 80 gigs as the best price per gig. (western digital caviar SE's for the warranty and extra features) At the moment, ticked as I am, I'm still glad the machine with the sata ports only let me switch a drive to IDE compatible mode. At least it boots. so I can test the *rest* of the machine with real-world ops, anyway. And start working around what isn't there. Like the game port- now I have a USB floppy to work with, I noticed it was missing too. And my MAME control panel plugs into one. Thanks for the advice, keep it coming- you may yet spot what I've been missing on these silly SATAs. (I do think I ought to try a better adapter card, but the house taxes have got us playing Ohio-class submarine on the budget. Run silent, Run deep, pray we have enough to make it to the 3rd.) Robert on "Cloning Hard Drive to 2TB Drive and Moving to a New Computer" http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/7946#post-82083 Sat, 28 Aug 2010 16:43:28 +0000 Robert 82083@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ Quite an interesting experience Goodgotd. Try altering HD access mode in the BIOS from "autodetect" to "Large(LBA)" before formatting and putting your image on the new SATA-2 drive. GMMan, A+, Game Modder on "Cloning Hard Drive to 2TB Drive and Moving to a New Computer" http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/7946#post-82072 Sat, 28 Aug 2010 14:20:46 +0000 GMMan, A+, Game Modder 82072@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ Instead of doing a exact mirror, just image the filesystem. Paragon should be able to do that. Of course, if the filesystem is mapped to the CHS (and I'm no expert on filesystems), you may have problems. goodgotd on "Cloning Hard Drive to 2TB Drive and Moving to a New Computer" http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/7946#post-82042 Sat, 28 Aug 2010 00:10:22 +0000 goodgotd 82042@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ I'd sure like to try Acronis True Image- guess I'll try Macrium- but the killer here is the different box- and the 2TB drive, if the old one is Parallel ATA and the new one is SATA. As far as my experience has gone- the different box with the same PATA drive is doable- done it several times, it just takes an obscenely long process of changing drivers. Even one slightly larger (in today's terms- like upping from a 20 to 80 gig drive) is not that big a deal. However, I have yet to get a PATA installation (partition on an 80, 30 gigs in size) copied onto a 500gb SATA drive and gotten it to boot. Ghost, all the Paragon stuff, XML Drive image, other bits and fragments.... And that is *with* the SATA/RAID drivers installed already, and so on. I've gotten all kinds of excuses from companies or developers (some of this stuff won't even admit the SATA drive is even there) but the most common is that what causes the problem is the drive geometry (cylinders, sectors, heads) makes the partition not end on a cylinder boundary. Or some other 'well, it's not the same' excuse. See, all ATA (IDE is more descriptive) drives lie to the operating system about it's CHS data. And have since the itty-bitty ones first came out. what they really are constructed like inside the tin can does not match what's on the label, or very VERY likely not even close. As an example, this 500gb hitachi I have in my hand says 16383 cylinders 16 heads, and 63 sectors. Since it has at most 5 platters, there's no way it can have over 10 heads. and you don't get that data density with 63 sectors. by Large Block Addressing it's 973, 773 and 168 sectors. By the label. I haven't found a data sheet on it from hitachi to even find out how many platters it has. If somebody pulls this trick off, please let me know how the frack you pulled it off, I wanna get the pair of ready-to-fail PATA drives out of my 2800 system and boot off the Seagate 500gb SATA-2 drive by itself! (the SATA drive and PCI interface card cost less than a 320 gig PATA drive- and the PATA drives were obviously being phased out- kinda made it a no-brainer until I tried to move over to it by itself...) copmom on "Cloning Hard Drive to 2TB Drive and Moving to a New Computer" http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/7946#post-82021 Fri, 27 Aug 2010 12:50:26 +0000 copmom 82021@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ I use Acronis True Image to create a total image on the larger hard drive Inas on "Cloning Hard Drive to 2TB Drive and Moving to a New Computer" http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/topic/7946#post-82012 Fri, 27 Aug 2010 00:05:20 +0000 Inas 82012@http://www.giveawayoftheday.com/forums/ Two excellent freeware options include: <a href="http://www.macrium.com/reflectfree.asp">Macrium Reflect - Free Edition</a> <a href="http://www.paragon-software.com/home/db-express/">Paragon DB Express</a>