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Hard Drive cloner

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  • 12-10-2003 11:03pm
    #1
    oneweb
    Registered Users Posts: 3,146 ✭✭✭


    I'm lookin to clone my 80 gig HD and am wondering if anyone knows of a quick easy and preferably free or nearly free utility to do a byte-for-byte copy of the HD and it's structure.

    Reason is 'cos I wanna work on the copy to see how to re-gain access to a partition without too much worry of losing 12 gigs of data/mail etc.

    It is what it's.



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    raphaelS
    Registered Users Posts: 538 ✭✭✭raphaelS


    Not free but Norton ghost might be the answer...

    Raphael


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    Tivoli
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    i think ghost only copies the files over, if you can't find the neither can it, unless the partition is marked as hidden.....


    i guess your problem is the winxp is after marking a previous windows install as hidden, same happened to me,(twice), it can be easily fixed by using partition magic to unhide it, files were fine


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    raphaelS
    Registered Users Posts: 538 ✭✭✭raphaelS


    Originally posted by tlachta
    i think ghost only copies the files over, if you can't find the neither can it, unless the partition is marked as hidden.....

    With ghost you can copy a disk or a partition with the structure, for example you can copy a partition to another partition with a different size (as long as the datas fit on the new one).

    If create an image, there's also a software to browse the image, you can then copy files...

    Raphael


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    Capt'n Midnight
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 91,780 Mod ✭✭✭✭Capt'n Midnight


    Which OS / File system ???

    eg: if win98 and FAT32 you can open a dos box
    attrib -s -h -r +a c:\*.* /s
    xcopy c:\*.* d:\*.* /s /h /r /d /c /m
    reboot into dos prompt and then
    xcopy c:\*.* d:\*.* /m
    and finally SYS D:

    If NTFS and NT (or possibly 2k/xp) you may be able to mirror the drives - then break the mirror when they have synched...
    http://www.sysinternals.com/ntw2k/info/tips.shtml#FTWorkstation


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    suppafly
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    just on a similar note, i'm looking for a program to take a snap shot of my system, cuz i've decided that its time that i do a full system restore and so when i have it finished and all nice i wanna take a "snap-shot" as it were of my system all nice and cleaned up so that i won't have to be installing all the stuff again. any one know of software for this?


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    Tivoli
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,008 ✭✭✭Tivoli


    oneweb states in his original post
    to re-gain access to a partition

    the partition is corrupt, he wants to copy it before trying to repair it, if windows can't access it nither can ghost (unless its marked hidden like i said earlier, or its an ntfs partition and the os is on win9x/me)

    that site that bedlam posted is the way to go oneweb

    suppfly -

    why do you want to do a restore if you like it the way it is.

    anyway this would be the best way

    export favourits/emails/contacts to my documents folder
    burn to cd
    collect all downloaded stuff to one folder,
    burn to cd

    format the drive

    install a legal(ish) o.s.

    install any software you might use in the near future, dont go crazy


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