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His Royal Majesty King V
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Drive imaging, for HD to HD?

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All,<br><br>Is there any sort of free software about that will do an exact duplication of one hard drive to another?<br><br>To wit, I want to install a larger drive. My plan is to install the new HD, therefore drive C is the first partition on the old drive and drive D is the first partition of the new drive.<br><br>So I want something that will copy drive C exactly to drive D, so that I can boot the OS, and everything is exactly intact.<br><br>Then I remove the old drive. Thus what was drive D becomes drive C, and thus I can boot up from it, etc. All drivers and existing software in place, etc.<br><br>Anything available that will fit in my $0 budget? Even if it's only a trial period, as long as it does the job once, that's all I need.<br> <p>--------------------<br>FIC PA-2013 2.0 E-O036, K6-2+ 450 @ 500 1.9V<br><br>FIC PA-2013 2.0 E-O036, K6-III 333 @ 350 2.2V<br><br>Acer Quasi-proprietary Mid-Tower with P-II 266</p><i></i>
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Re: Drive imaging, for HD to HD?

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isnt there some command on MS dos that allow you to copy archives or drives? I think i have the commands written on some old notebook, lemme give it a check, perhaps im wrong. <p>athlon xp 1600+<br>GA-7dxe<br>256mb ddr 2100 <br>geforce 2 mx/200<br>seagate 40Gb 5400rpm<br>c-media 8768 6channels<br>acteck 5.1 speakers<br>17` LG studioworks<br>26 dot pitch<br>32x10x40 lg cdburner<br>LG 52x cdrom</p><i></i>
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radeon9000Pro128Mb
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Re: Drive imaging, for HD to HD?

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You could D/L a "Trialware" version of Norton Ghost Enterprise edition <!--EZCODE LINK START--><a href="http://enterprisesecurity.symantec.com/ ... <!--EZCODE LINK END-->. I have a freeware drive copy utility at home as well. I'll see if I can find that later.<br> <p></p><i>Edited by: <A HREF=http://pub70.ezboard.com/bk6plus67153.s ... lvihill</A> at: 11/23/02 11:07:32 pm<br></i>
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That freeware utility is <!--EZCODE LINK START--><a href="http://home.tiscali.de/kurtzimmermann/hdcopy_e.htm">HD COpy</a><!--EZCODE LINK END--><br>The DOS command mentioned above is <!--EZCODE LINK START--><a href="http://www.windows-help.net/features/co ... <!--EZCODE LINK END--> <p></p><i></i>
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Thanks for the info...

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Haven't downloaded it yet, as I have no internet connection at my new (temporary) place, I'm just using the apartment complex's office computer when I can.<br><br>Anyhoo . . I should be stopping by more regularly once I get connected.<br><br>Thanks for the info! <p></p><i></i>
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Xcopy wont do it all

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xcopy can do files only. doesn't do partitions and boot sectors. <p></p><i></i>
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if you *dig* (may take hours) on the maxtor website, they have a utility there that will duplicate a drive bit by bit. It takes a long time, but it works. I have no idea what it is called. <p></p><i></i>
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Drive imaging, for HD to HD?

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You might want to check any motherboard installation CD's you might have. It's not uncommon to find Norton Ghost as an included utility. <p></p><i></i>
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