No lie, it was only a few years ago when I heard that my mother-in-law, who is a software developer, had just purchased a 1Gb hard drive. I thought the concept was ludicrous. I actually said at the time, "What on earth would anyone ever need a gigabyte of storage for?"
Fast forward to now. As it turns out, my mother-in-law just happened to be very forward-thinking back then, but by today's standards that 1Gb drive wouldn't go very far. Today, I regularly extract video and other media to my hard drive that takes up anywhere from 2Gb to 4Gb per file. PC game installations tip the scales at 4Gb or more, and that's before you factor in any expansion packs.
Storage is pretty cheap now compared to back in the day. As a result, folks are happily filling up their disks knowing that they can always buy a bigger drive when they run out of room.
But here's the problem - if you want to migrate your operating system and applications to a larger drive, you can just go willy nilly copying files from one drive to the other. It just don't work that way!
Sure, it'll look like everything is there, but when you try to turn on your computer, it's just not going to boot. No boot partition. Plus, there's no guarantee that your applications will run correctly.
You have two options. You can copy the boot partition and then dig around in your closet and get every single installation disk for every single one of your applications and spend a nice weekend or two reinstalling everything. Or, you can get yourself a copy of EzMigration Drive Migration Software and get 'er done in minutes.
EzMigration moves the contents of your old hard drive as an image, and creates an exact clone of your drive on the new, larger disk. The app migrates all of your applications and preferences, and, most importantly, your boot partition - so your new drive will boot exactly as your old one did. As the icing on the cake, EzMigration helps you to resize your active partition, ensuring that every bit of your new drive space is available to you.
Life's too short to waste your time manually moving files, reinstalling applications, and resizing partitions. EzMigration gets you up and running with your new drive quickly and easily.
I checked out the screen shots and the information on the Data Protection solutions website. This software appears to be VERY easy to use. My favorite kind. I was wondering about the difference(s) between EzMigration and EzBackup, which, as I understand it, also creates an image copy of a drive.
The EzBackup as well as the EzMigration create an image copy of your drive and that is the only feature they have in common. The EzBackup uses the image copy as the first step for backing up your drive on a daily bases. You can then schedule to backup any changes mad on the drive since your last image copy. The EzMigration, on the other hand, uses the image as part of a two step process in which it first migrates (creates a copy) of your drive (usually small) and then gives read moreyou the tools to manage the space (partitions) of your destination drive to take advantage of its entire space.
Can I copy from a larger to a smaller hard drive? From a 160 gig to an 80 gig and have everything work fine, the 160 gig only has 40 gig of files on it.
I got this the last time it was offered and it works great. I had an issue migrating a laptop hard drive to a larger drive, the tech support rep worked with me and helped me resolve the problem in no time. I cannot imagine how much time it would have taken me to do a complete load from cold on the larger drive without ExMigration. I give it a big thumbs up, 5 stars!
Hi John, Thank you for posting your comment. We do not support a "Copy from a large drive to a smaller size drive", unless the partition size on the large drive is smaller than the target drive. The reason is in majority, customers want to do the opposite, i.e. copy from small drive to a larger drive. This is what our product is made for. Hard drives are really not expensive these days. That is a major fact that makes the EzMigration software a perfect solution to do it yourself.
Is there a common-sense limit to the size of a MyInfo database? At what point will a 'big' database begin to slow things down? If a MyInfo database should get corrupted, is it always a total loss, or have you been able to recover the data?
Sorry - I realize (too late) that I posted my questions about MyInfo in the wrong place!
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