HD COPY

I need to copy all my HD for other new HD. As to do that to maintain
all the information already existent, without needing to install all my
programs again.
tks

 

A neat way is to fdisk and format it from a boot CD as master before
pluging in the old drive as a slave. After booting from the new one,
use an OS command to copy everything from the old to the new disk.
This should move everything except OS files in use.

 

new HD. As to do that to maintainMost hard drive makers have a program for doing this that they provide with
their retail boxed drives. You can also prob. get it from their websites. You
rig up the drives master and slave and then run the program from a boot disk in
a kind of DOS program. The last time I did this I used Data LifeGuard tools
that came with the drive. This program was very slow for doing 80 gigs of data
but it didn't miss a bit.

Rocky

 

I do this a lot, for making *backups*.
I have used DriveCopy and Ghost; they both work and each has its
strengths and weaknesses.
Drive copy is a bit slower and can be made slower yet by selecting for
full verification at all stages. I like that on occasion to make and
guarantee a fully valid copy. However, disabling all checks has always
given a reliable copy. However, NTFS and other non-DOS partitions will
be marked as hidden, even if one chooses non-hidden, and the tools
section does not fix that in reality (i use PTEDIT which always works
for fixing hidden partitions).
Ghost is faster, and appears to have no options for verification
passes. It does not make an exact copy; it does some kind of diddling
(somewhere) with the boot info. Once that is fixed, then the copy is as
useable as the original.

 

This is *dangerous* on any version of Win. The short->long file name
links tend to get hosed. Partition Magic is your friend.

 

The DOS version of Norton Ghost works/worked well in the past. 80 GB worth
of data transfer is going to be slow no matter how you transfer it. However,
if the faster access modes are not enabled in the programs, then it will be
even slower.