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| Thread ID: 114303 | 2010-11-26 23:48:00 | Copy entire drive | nedkelly (9059) | Press F1 |
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| 1156861 | 2010-11-27 03:05:00 | Two of those I posted are and will do it easily. But you will need to create a boot CD as trying to do it from Windows often crashes | gary67 (56) | ||
| 1156862 | 2010-11-27 03:08:00 | hmm is xml on UBCD4win? | nedkelly (9059) | ||
| 1156863 | 2010-11-27 03:40:00 | Don't know but don't think so | gary67 (56) | ||
| 1156864 | 2010-11-27 04:11:00 | The dd command in Linux is free. Then you can use Gparted or Partition Wizard (also free) to expand the partition(s) to the new drive size (assuming it's bigger) | Agent_24 (57) | ||
| 1156865 | 2010-11-27 05:03:00 | Being a laptop HDD, if its IDE - you would either need to put them on a PC using adapters unless the drives are SATA then that wouldn't be a problem, or you will need some sort of USB storage device to make an image to, then image it back to the blank drive. The Active@ gary mentioned before will do this, even the trial. You can download the trial from Here (www.disk-image.net) - its in the middle of the page "installer and bootable CD". Then make the Bootable CD, boot from that - image the drive to a removable device - turn off the laptop, change the drives over - boot from the CD, and image it back. Should depending on the spec's take around 1-2 hours total. I made these rough videos a while back -- shows making the CD - imaging to a USB drive - imaging back. Bootable CD and imaging (www.youtube.com) ( first part shows the folder on the USB drive) then Imaging back (www.youtube.com). Dont worry about the background noises :rolleyes: just me mucking about while getting bored. |
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| 1156866 | 2010-11-27 05:09:00 | Dont think I will image, will try to just do a direct copy. | nedkelly (9059) | ||
| 1156867 | 2010-11-27 05:14:00 | So you have two drives, and are going to connect to one PC and clone ?? You cant just copy the folders over, it wont work -- anyway, windows wont let you. |
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| 1156868 | 2010-11-27 05:18:00 | yeah I know, I have 2 external ide 2.5" hard drive cases and a P4 pc with 6usb ports. | nedkelly (9059) | ||
| 1156869 | 2010-11-27 05:43:00 | how do you intend to copy the drive from one to the other ? As previously mentioned, you cant simply go copy/paste -- it wont work. |
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| 1156870 | 2010-11-27 05:49:00 | possibly use the Activ@ thing gary said | nedkelly (9059) | ||
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