Darren New wrote:
> Tim Nikias wrote:
>> Anybody have a clue if that's going to work? I'd rather not reinstall 
>> my entire PC.
> 
> The way I moved to a larger disk was to use DriveXML (a free 
> backup/restore/mirror program) to copy the small drive onto the larger 
> drive, then swapped out the small drive for the second big drive and 
> mirrored it back again.
> 
> If you're doing RAID, you'd use the RAID for that second step, of course.

Well, if I'd just exchange one HD with the bigger one, my Raid 
controller would exclaim that the Raid broke and would offer me to 
mirror the functional (small) HD onto the new, bigger and empty one. 
That's what Raid 1 is supposed to do.
Then, I exchange the functional small HD, in effect letting the 
controller believe that, yet again, one HD failed, and mirrors the first 
HD onto the second.
Voila! 250GB worth of Data mirrored onto 500GB.
Final step: Just partition the remaining, unused 250GB. The controller 
is a hardware one and acts as if only one HD is attached to the PC, so 
in theory, that should work.
But I'll look into that tomorrow, I guess. :-)

>> My ideal would be something he'd install on any computer he'd need, 
>> and then just plug the external HD in, it'll synchronise the computer 
>> with the HD, and when he leaves the PC, he'll just synchronise again 
>> and take the HD along. 
> 
> Assuming you're talking Windows again...
> 
> Google for "synctoy powertools."  Alternately, that's what the 
> "briefcase" icon is supposed to do for you, but I never got it to work 
> right. Maybe I just didn't understand it. The "briefcase" would be your HD.
> 
> http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/magazine/cc162483.aspx
>
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=C26EFA36-98E0-4EE9-A7C5-98D0592D8C52&displaylang=en

> 
> 
> 
> Alternately, google for jungledisk. This lets you put your encrypted 
> files up on Amazon's servers, and keeps them synchronized automatically 
> in the background. You could edit them right in that virtual drive, and 
> when you save it, it pushes them up in the background.  I'm pretty sure 
> it works to map the same files to multiple machines, but you'd want to 
> double-check that first. Then you're not even lugging around a HD.
> 
> Have you considered what happens to your data if you lose the HD? Is 
> there anything on there of enough value that you're screwed if it gets 
> stolen?  A NOC list, perhaps?

I'll look into that tomorrow as well, got to get to work now. But a 
server-side thingy is out of the question, my dad doesn't want to need 
the internet for that.
Theft is a thing I should keep in mind, thanks for pointing that out.

Regards,
Tim

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