Hard drive copy

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E.Martinez

Good day,
Couls anyone advise me on a quality freeware (or not)
to make a copy of my hard drive.
Thanks
Regards
 
Good day,
Couls anyone advise me on a quality freeware (or not)
to make a copy of my hard drive.
Thanks
Regards
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I bought Ghost 2003 an excellent program to backup my WinXP Pro HD.
 
HPotter said:
I bought Ghost 2003 an excellent program to backup my WinXP Pro HD.
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Ghost 2003 is a commercial software program. This group is supposed to
be for the discussion of freeware only. Please try to stay on topic by
recommending freeware solutions only.

As for a recommended program, I concur with burris:

http://www.xxcopy.com

I use it myself with the /clone command switch (among others.)
 
E.Martinez said:
Good day,
Couls anyone advise me on a quality freeware (or not)
to make a copy of my hard drive.
Thanks
Regards
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If any of your drives is a Maxtor, MaxBlastPlus will do that very easily
(though you have to menu-hunt for it). The program is supplied with
their drives or downloadable(free) from Maxtor. The most recent version
works with XP and any file system.
 
E.Martinez said:
Couls anyone advise me on a quality freeware (or not)
to make a copy of my hard drive.
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To what medium you want to make the copy (CD/HD)?
Do you want it as one file?
I use a combination of tar, mkisofs and cdrecord to make backups of my
hard disk on CDs.

Bernd
 
Ghost 2003 is a commercial software program. This group is supposed to
be for the discussion of freeware only. Please try to stay on topic by
recommending freeware solutions only.

As for a recommended program, I concur with burris:

http://www.xxcopy.com

I use it myself with the /clone command switch (among others.)
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I got Ghost free. It sucks. It makes a partition on your HDD. Ack!

Can XXCopy actually clone an XP volume and make the destination drive
bootable? This doesn't sound too likely! I can find no reference to it in
the documentation.

Bob
 
Bob said:
I got Ghost free. It sucks. It makes a partition on your HDD. Ack!

Can XXCopy actually clone an XP volume and make the destination drive
bootable? This doesn't sound too likely! I can find no reference to it in
the documentation.
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The way I wound up with two bootable HDs is that I added one at a
later date and made it the master disk (the old disk became the
slave.) When I did the FDISK on the new drive, I made it bootable. The
old disk remained bootable since I only wiped it. Since this is a
process that I've only (thank GOD) had to do once, don't ask me for
particulars. For that I might recommend:

http://www.bitzenbytes.com/101/c111-fdisk.htm

As for what XXCopy can and can't do, I recommend this:

http://www.xxcopy.com/#tag_11

I was only concurring with E. Martinez on the selection of a program
to recommend. Don't recall it being able to make a drive bootable
either. For clarification on that, perhaps E. Martinez is the better
person to ask.
 
Bob
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The query was" freeware or not as noted below"! Get a life Net Cop!


Good day,
Couls anyone advise me on a quality freeware (or not)
to make a copy of my hard drive.
Thanks
Regards
 
Thanks a lot for all these replies.
What I want to do is clone my C: Maxtor drive I have now on my machine
to another Maxtor drive I bought so I won't eventually have to spend hours
reinstalling tons
of software on the new one.
I use Win 98 SE as OS
Can Nero 5.5 do that ? I have 1,5 gig data to transfer to the other drive.
 
Hope you haven't installed it yet.
Take it back to the store and change it for one of their 1 click
back-up 120gb drives. A lot simpler than messing about with ISO images
& other software.

Cheers,
 
I have used this for years on my 98 OS. It made my target HDD bootable.
The way I used it then was to boot up to the BIOS and remove the source
HDD autoselect. By default then the target drive becomes the bootable
drive and has never missed.
The other option is to physically move the HDD to the C: slot by a
change of cables and/or pin configuration and let it boot from there.

Why not d/l the small program and install it. Suggest to let it install
as it wants, into the Windows\command. Then you can invoke it from the
run menu. The clone command is xxcopy C:\ D:\ /clone.
If your drives are lettered differently change the command accordingly.
If you need to restore, do the reverse or just move files back if need be.


burris
 
E.Martinez said:
Thanks a lot for all these replies.
What I want to do is clone my C: Maxtor drive I have now on my machine
to another Maxtor drive I bought so I won't eventually have to spend hours
reinstalling tons
of software on the new one.
I use Win 98 SE as OS
Can Nero 5.5 do that ? I have 1,5 gig data to transfer to the other drive.
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I hope you're not overlooking Jackson's advice, it's exactly what you want. If
your new Maxtor didn't come with a MaxBlast utility floppy, visit
www.maxtor.com and download it for free. Then you plug both drives in at the
same time, boot from the floppy, use MaxBlast to copy everything from old to
new, shutdown, remove old drive and put new in its place, reboot. No CD's, no
Nero, no Ghost, no xxcopy ... it really is that simple.
 
Thanks a lot, I should have thought about that.

Dg1261 said:
drive.

I hope you're not overlooking Jackson's advice, it's exactly what you want. If
your new Maxtor didn't come with a MaxBlast utility floppy, visit
www.maxtor.com and download it for free. Then you plug both drives in at the
same time, boot from the floppy, use MaxBlast to copy everything from old to
new, shutdown, remove old drive and put new in its place, reboot. No CD's, no
Nero, no Ghost, no xxcopy ... it really is that simple.
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I hope you're not overlooking Jackson's advice, it's exactly what you want. If
your new Maxtor didn't come with a MaxBlast utility floppy, visit
www.maxtor.com and download it for free. Then you plug both drives in at the
same time, boot from the floppy, use MaxBlast to copy everything from old to
new, shutdown, remove old drive and put new in its place, reboot. No CD's, no
Nero, no Ghost, no xxcopy ... it really is that simple.
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Western Digital has a utility that does this well. I have used it many
times.

Bob
 
|On 13 Sep 2003 00:31:44 GMT, (e-mail address removed) (Dg1261) wrote:
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|>I hope you're not overlooking Jackson's advice, it's exactly what you want. If
|>your new Maxtor didn't come with a MaxBlast utility floppy, visit
|>www.maxtor.com and download it for free. Then you plug both drives in at the
|>same time, boot from the floppy, use MaxBlast to copy everything from old to
|>new, shutdown, remove old drive and put new in its place, reboot. No CD's, no
|>Nero, no Ghost, no xxcopy ... it really is that simple.
|
|Western Digital has a utility that does this well. I have used it many
|times.
|
|Bob

A fast search of the WD web site did not reveal anything that looked like this.
Would you kindly provide more data on how to obtain the WD utility?
Thanks
John
 
I'm sorry, but this is NOT a hard drive copying utility.
Not even close!

It is simply software being marketed by someone who is misrepresenting
their product.
 
|On 13 Sep 2003 00:31:44 GMT, (e-mail address removed) (Dg1261) wrote:
|>I hope you're not overlooking Jackson's advice, it's exactly what you want.
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|>If your new Maxtor didn't come with a MaxBlast utility floppy, visit
|>www.maxtor.com and download it for free. Then you plug both drives
|>in at the same time, boot from the floppy, use MaxBlast to copy
|>everything from old to new, shutdown, remove old drive and put new
|>in its place, reboot. No CD's, no Nero, no Ghost, no xxcopy ... it
|>really is that simple.

|Western Digital has a utility that does this well. I have used it many
|times.
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John Bischoff said:
A fast search of the WD web site did not reveal anything that looked like this.
Would you kindly provide more data on how to obtain the WD utility?
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John, WD's version is called "Data Lifeguard". You'll find it on their website
under Support|Downloads. FWIW, I was under the impression that one of the two
drives (either source or destination) had to be a WD drive for the utility to
work, but I could be wrong.
 
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