=SERGE= said:
Hello,
The most important is how to make ?XP boot on a new hd once it's copied.
There are some boot files needed...I don't quite remember but it's a
delicate operation...
Could smb to detail the matter?
Thank you
SERGE later writes...
Thank you for your suggestions of the soft to clone....
But is this all...?
Will thus cloned XP boot immediately from the new HD?
or there is sth to do with ntldr ect...
For my question was rather about booting after cloning...
Thank you for answers
SERGE:
As you have heard from responders to your query you will need a disk-to-disk
cloning program. A popular one that's often recommended by posters to this &
similar newsgroups is the Acronis True Image program. A trial version of
that program is available from
http://www.acronis.com.
Needless to say there are quite a few commercial disk-cloning programs on
the market.
The disk-cloning program we prefer to the Acronis program is the Casper 5
program. A trial version (slightly crippled) is also available - see
http://www.fssdev.com/products/free.
The recipient (the so-called "destination" drive) of the cloned contents of
your boot drive will be bootable if the destination drive is another
*internal* HDD or an external SATA HDD that has SATA-to-SATA connectivity.
Should the destination drive be a USB-connected external HDD that device
will *not* be bootable. Obviously its contents could be cloned back to an
internal HDD and the latter would, of course, be bootable.
The disk-cloning process is complete in itself. There is no need to modify
any system files to achieve this "bootability".
Anna
