I will try to reply more than one line but there are a lot ppl also reply in one line . The Acronis True is a nice software for who need to used it to clone and backup

Hmm, currently i'm trying Norton Ghost. well, it nearly screw me thou.

first i was able to clone the hdd, when rebooting, if conflicted with my current hdd and screw all my volume letter.

well... nevermind about it, i actually learned how to revert back. learn new stuff everyday...

But seems now i having some problem with MBR, does anyone here actually know after cloning a hdd, how to actually set your default boot to the new hdd without booting the old hdd, seems if 2 harddrive has MBR as well, it will conflict.

U just take out ur old hdd

then? only take out 1 time? and then reboot, and shutdown, attach back the hdd back and turn on?

If u may try to delete the window files on the old , it may help .

remove active from old hdd

i see, is there anyway i could do it in Disk Management? or i must do it in old school way which uses diskpart.exe in ms-dos?

because currently now, i can't find where to remove active from old hdd, i only know how to mark active. my OS is Win7 64bit ultimate.

This post has been edited by Cyclonechuah: Jun 17 2010, 10:00 PM

Disk MAnagement has the option to select a particular drive as active or not

well, sadly no. or i don't know about or i fail to find it.

but i manage to clone the entire thing sucessfully now and disable MBR on the old hdd. all things are smooth now.

Samsung Launches 3.5" Spinpoint F4 320GB Hard Drive for High-Performance Computing

http://www.samsung.com/us/business/semicon...do?news_id=1163

damn i just bought my f3

Too bad it only have 320GB .

If I understood the writing correctly, looks like these are originally either 640GB platters or 667GB platters. It would be nice to buy a three platter 2TB drive.

F4 now!! omg something newer, faster and cooler.. but sure abit more expensive so nevermind for now just get the F3 now for its cheaper price

even waiting 2tb F3 also.. very hard to get..
if straight can get F4 is better..

No wonder Samsung price drop like crazy.. Spinpoint F4 on da way..

Samsung is now the BEST HDD Manufacturer for me. LOL.

High Quality(low RMA rates), Superb Performance, Low Power Consumption & Low Heat and Freaking Cheap!

But the stock is no enough for us to buy

But it stated F4 is for performance, server usage, which I reckon could be like WD enterprise grade one, which price wise may not as competitive, after all it is 320GB one.

Yup, kinda agree on this issue.

It is very difficult to get a F3 out there. So no matter how cheap, how good the HDD is, if stock availability is not there, it is as good as none.

Can easily shop around 5-6 shops around, none of them carry F3.
Even ask about Samsung HDD only old model F1 got.

i saw alot of forummer bought samsung hdd that wd / seagate...
may i knw whats the different ? price ?