Need help from Tech people, Hard drive recovery questions

[DarkoStoj]

I have a Xerox printer and the hard drive on the back of the unit is starting to get real noisy and I wanted to replace it before it fails

The part has Xerox software on it and is almost $1,000 from the company for a replacement.

I found the exact same unit for $30 and bought it.

I bought the USB connector to hook up to a SATA ii hard drive and wanted to copy all the files from the failing unit and transfer them to the new unit I purchased.

It wasn't as simple as plugging it in and using it like an external hard drive like I thought it would be.

Any thoughts? The last thing I want to do is corrupt the data and have the printer be completely down.

 

[The Man]

we have one of these here at work, and use it to replace failing hard drives for voicemail servers...if both drives are identical, it might work for you.

http://www.amazon.com/StarTech-com-SATA-Hard-Drive-Duplicator/dp/B003WV5DLA

 

[DarkoStoj]

Wow, that is exactly what I need.

I just ordered it, any tips on using it?

 

[Tin]

The Xerox hard drive most likely has a non-Windows filesystem on it. I'd venture to guess it's a Linux filesystem, most likely ext3 or ext4 depending on how old it is. Grab yourself a copy of GParted Live or Clonezilla, write it to a USB thumb drive, boot from the thumb drive, plug in the Xerox HD, then you should be able clone the faulty HD to the new one. Both are free.

http://www.pendrivelinux.com/install-gparted-on-usb-flash-drive-using-windows/

http://clonezilla.org/liveusb.php

 

[The Man]

the dock does all the work for you. If your duplicating drives, you dont even need a pc connected.

Wow, that is exactly what I need.

I just ordered it, any tips on using it?

 

[Tin]

the dock does all the work for you. If your duplicating drives, you dont even need a pc connected.

That's pretty kick ass. Might have to grab one for myself.

 

[GTPprix]

That's pretty kick ass. Might have to grab one for myself.

No shit, if its just a straight block by block copy shouldn't matter the file system thats on it; I might have to pick one up!

 

[DarkoStoj]

we have one of these here at work, and use it to replace failing hard drives for voicemail servers...if both drives are identical, it might work for you.

http://www.amazon.com/StarTech-com-SATA-Hard-Drive-Duplicator/dp/B003WV5DLA

Worked perfect! I was really worried about doing this, but it saved a lot of money and we are back up and running.

The only weird thing was, after I changed the hard drive I had to manually change the printer ports for it to communicate again, but it seems to be working fine...whew it would have not been fun starting tomorrow with no printer.

 

[The Man]

Badass....

It's even nice to be able to use it as an external dock to grab files from a drive....

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