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I'm upgrading a hard drive on a Win2K machine. From what I gather doing a little googling, you can't clone a drive with XCOPY32 for this operating system (as I used to for Win98). Is there some way using available system tools to do it, or do I have to buy something like Norton Ghost?
Posted by Rand Simberg at January 12, 2007 11:27 AM
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I suppose you could go into disk management and mirror the drives. Once the mirror is complete, break it, and you'd then have two copies.
Seems a bit of a kludged up way of going about, there are no doubt more elegant methods, it but should work.
Posted by Fuloydo at January 12, 2007 11:36 AM
I don't have the URL at work, but google for (name deleted because it looks like spam) (Ghost 4 Unix) and look at that. It does drive-image transfers, not file-level, so you'll have to play 'grow the partition' games afterwards, or just use the portion of the new drive that exceeds the size of the old drive as a separate partition and therefore separate drive letter.
Posted by Glenn at January 12, 2007 12:23 PM
As much as I am a fan of Open source software, I have to say Norton Ghost 10 does a nice job at it, and is fairly uncomplicated, and will allow you allocate the extra space for the new drive.
Posted by Ian Ralph at January 12, 2007 12:57 PM
You can get a 15 day trial copy of Norton Ghost.
http://www.symantec.com/home_homeoffice/downloads/index.jsp
Posted by Joe Schmoe at January 12, 2007 01:01 PM
I've used System Rescue CD with great success. It includes PartImage, which is very Ghost-like.
http://www.sysresccd.org/Main_Page
Posted by Andrew Ward at January 12, 2007 02:30 PM
You can get a 15 day trial copy of Norton Ghost.
The trialware version is great. For a couple weeks. Unless you want to clone a drive. :-(
For that, you have to lay out the dinero, even from Day One...
Posted by Rand Simberg at January 12, 2007 03:32 PM
You need someone with a high IQ to help you on this:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/femail/article.html?in_article_id=426320&in_page_id=1879
Posted by at January 12, 2007 03:57 PM
this might do the job for you
http://gparted.sourceforge.net/livecd.php
Posted by at January 12, 2007 06:58 PM
Depending on the drive manufacturer, many of them include a utility in the box that will let you duplicate an old drive onto a new one, complete with the boot record, NTFS, and all, and adjust the partition size to fit the new drive. Just did a Western Digital 250 SATA last week. The software from WD did a better job than Ghost (the old drive had a few bad sectors that stymied Ghost). I know Maxtor typically includes their MaxBlast software, too.
Posted by Dave G at January 13, 2007 07:13 PM
There are several drive cloning tools in the
'Ultimate boot CD' freeware:
available from ubcd.sourceforge.net
HDClone (Free Edition) 2.0
PC INSPECTOR clone maxx 0.95 Build 769
XXCOPY 2.92.6
Everyone who installs or maintains PCs should have a copy of this.
Posted by Charlie at January 14, 2007 02:01 AM
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