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| Thread ID: 44072 | 2004-04-06 03:24:00 | Cloneing Disks | B.M. (505) | Press F1 |
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| 227540 | 2004-04-06 03:24:00 | Believe it or not my own little pc has run beautifully for months, if not years now on 2gig of HDD. (Now as you’ll appreciate this requires continuous housekeeping to prevent running out of HDD space.) :) A friend has now given me a 10Gig HDD which I would like to copy everything from my 2gig to the 10gig. Yes, I could reload everything from the original disks but what I’m looking to do is copy everything, warts and all, so that life will carry on as usual except I’ll have another 8 gig of space to fill with rubbish. :D The emphasis is on “warts and all” as I don’t want to have to set-up all my shortcuts and taskbars again. The question is what is the preferred method of going about this? Programmes involved are: Win98se, Microsoft Office 2000, SystemWorks 2001 with NAV, Adobe Photo Shop 5, Q&A (DOS data base & Word processor programme) Floor Plan 3 (Dos drawing programme) plus a heap of freebee downloads. Only 200meg freespace available on this disk. I do have Ghost somewhere, but am not sure if it would be suitable for what we’re looking at, or if there is enough room on the active disk. Personally, I’m thinking along the lines of xcopy C:/*.* D:/ where D is the 10gig drive installed as a slave. Soooo, what do the experts think? |
B.M. (505) | ||
| 227541 | 2004-04-06 03:31:00 | Yep Ghost will do it for you, that's what their cloning feature is for. To do the xcopy thing you need a raft of extra switches. I posted them some time back but a quick search didn't find the post unfortunately. If you want them just say so and I'll dig them up elsewhere. Cheers Billy 8-{) |
Billy T (70) | ||
| 227542 | 2004-04-06 03:50:00 | Will xcopy also do registry and active files though? Master Boot Records etc? Try booting a Knoppix Disc and using partimage. Ive used it for the first time myself a week ago. It was a little daunting, but not that hard at all! Took a few mins. Chill. |
Chilling_Silence (9) | ||
| 227543 | 2004-04-06 04:05:00 | Xcopy is run from a DOS boot disk same as Ghost Chill, that takes care of Windows/Registry issues. Cheers Billy 8-{) |
Billy T (70) | ||
| 227544 | 2004-04-06 04:10:00 | Oh really? Thanks for that info then.... I'll have to try it out. I take it I just need to copy the xcopy executable to a floppy disk and boot of a '98 Boot Disk then? Cheers Chill. |
Chilling_Silence (9) | ||
| 227545 | 2004-04-06 04:38:00 | Thanks Guys, well really speaking I should familiarise myself with Ghost if it will handle everything. Problem is I have no Idea how it works. I guess I’d better do some research. You’ve got me scratching my head on xcopy Billy. I thought the switches selected certain files like /d = Date /a, or /m selected files with the archive bit on, /p to confirm that file is to be copied and so on. As you say there is a heap of them but I thought they were only used if you wanted to be picky. In this case we’re looking at lock stock and barrel, so I thought plain old xcopy would grab everything. However, DOS commands were not my strong suite so I could well be wrong here. Anyone recommend some good reading on the use of Ghost. I bet Google gives me a small choice of two million sites! :D |
B.M. (505) | ||
| 227546 | 2004-04-06 04:47:00 | Bah at xcopy. It won't copy the MBR which you'll need if you want to avoid reinstalling everything. Not sure if ghost has that capability or not. You need drive migration software which copies -everything- block for block, such as something from powerquest I saw a while ago. But seeing they've now merged with Symantec, its pretty difficult to find. |
PoWa (203) | ||
| 227547 | 2004-04-06 04:49:00 | > You need drive migration software which copies > -everything- block for block, such as something from > powerquest I saw a while ago. But seeing they've now > merged with Symantec, its pretty difficult to find. Well, Partimage will do that, except without copying the free space. Either that or you can use Linux's dd from one drive to the other...... |
Chilling_Silence (9) | ||
| 227548 | 2004-04-06 05:36:00 | I use drive image 2002 easy to use and does a very good job boots of 2 floppys intro dos mode then does the restoration backup etc so isnt dependent on windows have it on cd somewhere | kiwibeat (304) | ||
| 227549 | 2004-04-06 10:45:00 | Jeez you guys, you really need to read up on the capabilities of Ghost. It can clone FAT, NTFS or Linux Ext2 partitions, resize partitions on the fly, copy sector by sector and all sorts of neat and groovy things I haven't even tried to explore. When it clones a disk it takes everything with it to produce a bootable result. It can't be run inside a non-dos based system, but all that means is that you use a boot floppy to carry out the tasks. There's more, much more so take a look at the URL I posted on the Ghost 2003 thread and tell me if you are not impressed. Cheers Billy 8-{) |
Billy T (70) | ||
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