best hard disk copy software

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What is the best and FASTEST hard disk copy software? I need to replace my
little 80 gig primary boot disk with a 250 gig monster! I have tried
partition magic 8.0 and some others but they are soooooooo slooooooow.
What about Acronis? I hear good things about them....
I just need to replace my boot drive with a bigger one, sounds easy to me,
done it many times, but I am having major problems this time. I have my
optical disks hooked to all my primary (onboard) controller and the Hard
disks are hooked up to a pci ata133 controller. I think this may have
something to do with it..
Any help out there?
TIA
John
 
What is the best and FASTEST hard disk copy software? I need to replace my
little 80 gig primary boot disk with a 250 gig monster! I have tried partition
magic 8.0 and some others but they are soooooooo slooooooow.
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You're going to waste a lot more time trying
to find the fastest than you will ever save.
What about Acronis? I hear good things about them....
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Its pretty decent, but since its linux based,
it can have problems with some hardware.
I just need to replace my boot drive with a bigger one, sounds easy to me,
done it many times, but I am having major problems this time. I have my
optical disks hooked to all my primary (onboard) controller and the Hard disks
are hooked up to a pci ata133 controller. I think this may have something to
do with it..
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It shouldnt.
Any help out there?
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You dont say what you have tried using already.
 
John said:
What is the best and FASTEST hard disk copy software? I need to replace my
little 80 gig primary boot disk with a 250 gig monster! I have tried
partition magic 8.0 and some others but they are soooooooo slooooooow.
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Cheapest is what comes with the drive -- eg. Western Digitals all have
downloadable software that'll do the dupe in minutes to a new drive
easily and safely.

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Otherwise, my pick is Ghost 2003 or Partition Magic. Here, you can turn
off the verify after write feature which is probably what is slowing the
copy down by a lot. Also, turn off bad sector check and you'll be
suprised! you can dupe that 80gb in less than 30 min flat!
 
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