Can I backup the Hard Drive in My Tower Duplicator?

Just wondering before I open it up (and void the warranty) if I can
pull the hard drive on my tower and put it in an external hard drive
case and back it up to my computer hard drive?

You can if the disk interface matches; either SATA or EIDE.

androidus@sympatico.ca wrote:
>
> Just wondering before I open it up (and void the warranty) if I can
> pull the hard drive on my tower and put it in an external hard drive
> case and back it up to my computer hard drive?

--
Mike Walsh

It also needs to be formatted in something his computer's OS can read.
There's no apparent reason to think the tower duplicator uses Windows
or OS X - or even Linux/Unix.

On 5/08/2008, Mike Walsh posted this:
> You can if the disk interface matches; either SATA or EIDE.
>
> androidus@sympatico.ca wrote:
>>
>> Just wondering before I open it up (and void the warranty) if I can
>> pull the hard drive on my tower and put it in an external hard drive
>> case and back it up to my computer hard drive?

--
Gene E. Bloch (Gino) letters617blochg3251
(replace the numbers by "at" and "dotcom")

On the other hand, I later recalled that there is (or at least used to
be) software available that can just do a sector-by-sector copy of a
hard drive, AKA a raw copy , without having any reliance on the
structure.

I've used such software myself - many years ago - to clone a laptop
drive (I'm not 100% why I wanted to do that - backup, maybe).

Maybe that would satisfy the OP's needs, even if my caveat below is
correct.

On 5/08/2008, Gene E. Bloch posted this:
> It also needs to be formatted in something his computer's OS can read.
> There's no apparent reason to think the tower duplicator uses Windows or OS X
> - or even Linux/Unix.
>
> On 5/08/2008, Mike Walsh posted this:
>> You can if the disk interface matches; either SATA or EIDE.
>>
>> androidus@sympatico.ca wrote:
>>>
>>> Just wondering before I open it up (and void the warranty) if I can
>>> pull the hard drive on my tower and put it in an external hard drive
>>> case and back it up to my computer hard drive?

--
Gene E. Bloch (Gino) letters617blochg3251
(replace the numbers by "at" and "dotcom")

In article <54864fe7-841b-41fd-be23-181ef0bd1d02@26g2000hsk.googlegroups.com>,
<androidus@sympatico.ca> wrote:
>Just wondering before I open it up (and void the warranty) if I can
>pull the hard drive on my tower and put it in an external hard drive
>case and back it up to my computer hard drive?

Usually nothing special about the hardware or formatting. They pretty much
all use an IDE controller for the HD and optical drives. You can usually
get more specifics from the documentation written by the manufacturer of
the duplicator controller (i.e. rather than that from the integrator that
stuffs the controller and drives into a box and sells it to you).

Which begs the question then ... what is the duplicator controller in your
tower?