OT . Copy software

I need to copy (not backup) my harddrive to another. Best software
(running WXPPro)pse??
TIA

 

Norton Ghost.

 

seconded

 

Interesting. Our infratstrcture monkeys use it and swear by it too. I
can't look beyond the fact that every other piece of Notrun branded
software is a steaming great pile of poo. They had to get something
right, I suppose.

 

Ghost = PowerQuest Drive Image.
Symantec purchased the current version (or previous, whatever) of Ghost from
PowerQuest

 

Ahh. All is clear. How many version upgrades before the bugs creep in,
I wonder.

 

Based on their previous record, one.

 

In uk.rec.motorcycles, Jones belched forth and ejected the following:

Serial cable and Nero.

HTH

 

No one else seems to have pointed out that you can't actually *copy* a
drive while XP is running. Norton Ghost is very good though, as long as
you have a bootable CD, but the new (to me) version is a bit 'odd' IMHO.
It's targeted very much at backups and restores. To do a disc to disc
image (which is what I suspect you want) you need to dig into one of the
more obscure bits (legacy IIRC)

Another way to do it is the dd command under a live Linux distro (like
Knoppix) Has the added advantage of being legally free.

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On Tuesday 24 October 2006 13:27, Jones []

Your harddrive manufacturer might have some software available to do just
that.

 

I use Acronis True Image 9. Rumor has it that this can be had for
free illegally.

 

Exactly my feelings. But the other posts below this, clear things up
for me.

 

Hmm, that's interesting. How does this sort of thing handle different
disk sizes? I set up a system with an old 8 GB Seagate IDE drive for
Windows and a 250 GB (or so) SATA drive for Linux. I now find the 8 GB
drive to be too slow and noisy, so I bought a 160 GB drive to replace it.
If I put the 160 GB on the IDE as slave, can I transfer the data from the 8 GB
to it such that I can then make the 160 master and boot from it, etc.? I'm
looking at just re-installing the whole kit-and-caboodle.

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Bit generous, that. Nought point one will probably see it bloated and
be-bugged beyond recognition.

 

It should do - as long as the destination drive is bigger..

Have a look at this:

http://www.rajeevnet.com/hacks_hints/os_clone/os_cloning.html

Phil

 

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Norton would be better for that. dd (IIRC) will do a bit for bit copy
from your old 8G to your spanky new 160G leaving you with a fine
bootable disc with an 8G partition hiding in the corner. Ghost OTOH
will 'expand' your 8G partition to fill the 160G drive. Then set it as
master and away you go.

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And then you can use one of the many fine linux rescue CDs to expand
the size..

It doesn't know anything about linux filesystem formats - so it can't
(for example) resize an 8G ext2/ext3 partition in the same way that it
can for Windows format filesystems (Fat32/ntfs)

Phil

 

Ahh, now that I've never done. I wasn't aware that there were reliable
tools that could re-size NTFS partitions without data loss

That I can understand. I was assuming that it was an NTFS FS, in which
of course I may be mistaken.



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There are - Partition Magic does it quite happily as do a lot of the
free linux rescue CDs. Those also have the advantage that they are a)
free and b) can handle linux filesystems (ext2/3, ReiserFS, XFS et.al.)

Phil