Hi,

Is there any freeware (and info) that will enable me to clone a hard
drive?

My existing HDD is starting to fail. Windows hasn't reported any
errors yet but the drive (5400rpm) fails Seagates diagnistics (bad
sectors & stuff). The drive has XP preloaded onto the end of it.

I've got a new Hitachi 7200rpm drive and borrowed a generic windows xp
oem disc which installed ok. SP2 installed ok but after downloading
all relevant updates one instance of svchost.exe continuously accesses
the disc.

I've posted on microsoft newsgroups but haven't had any luck in fixing
whatever the problem might be. Consequently, I'm now thinking of
cloning the original HDD & trusting to luck that there aren't any bad
sectors in the region where XP has been preinstalled.

I'm not very knowledgable about these things so any advice would be
very welcome!

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John Latter

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In article <(E-Mail Removed)>,
(E-Mail Removed) says...
> Hi,
>
> Is there any freeware (and info) that will enable me to clone a hard
> drive?

You might try Drive SnapShot...

http://www.drivesnapshot.de/en/

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Kerodo

> clone a hard drive?

John, is the old drive "C" or is it partitioned?

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On Tue, 28 Jun 2005 22:02:11 -0700, Kerodo <(E-Mail Removed)>
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>In article <(E-Mail Removed)>,
>(E-Mail Removed) says...
>> Hi,
>>
>> Is there any freeware (and info) that will enable me to clone a hard
>> drive?
>
>You might try Drive SnapShot...
>
>http://www.drivesnapshot.de/en/

Looks interesting Kerodo - thankyou!

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John Latter

Model of an Internal Evolutionary Mechanism (based on an extension to homeostasis) linking Stationary-Phase Mutations to the Baldwin Effect.
http://members.aol.com/jorolat/TEM.html

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On 29 Jun 2005 06:10:37 GMT, (E-Mail Removed)lid
(jmatt) wrote:

>> clone a hard drive?
>
>John, is the old drive "C" or is it partitioned?
>
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Its just "C" Jmatt - I dunno enough to partition

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John Latter

Model of an Internal Evolutionary Mechanism (based on an extension to homeostasis) linking Stationary-Phase Mutations to the Baldwin Effect.
http://members.aol.com/jorolat/TEM.html

'Where Darwin meets Lamarck?' Discussion Egroup
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On Wed, 29 Jun 2005 05:54:01 +0100, John Latter wrote:

> Is there any freeware (and info) that will enable me to clone a hard
> drive?

Yes, of course there is.
But rather than downloading one drive cloning program, and one drive
partitioning program, and one drive diagnostic program etc, why not
download the "Ultimate Boot CD"?
It has all of these utilities plus many more on a bootable cd. Admittedly
the download is larger (82MB), but it sure is a handy tool.

http://www.ultimatebootcd.com/

> I dunno enough to partition

Those words make it harder to find a way that will be easy for you to
use.

This way you slave it to another hard drive / comp ( no need to bolt
it in, just cable it & leave it outside the case ) & copy
your stuff onto the other HD.
You may have a choice of jumper settings on the master HD, such as
master with slave or MS.

Here is a free program & this is what you copy & paste into
the Command Prompt, then hit Enter.
Start > All Programs > Accessories > Command Prompt.
XXCOPY C:\ D:\ /CLONE

xxcopy ( freeware ) from ,
http://www.xxcopy.com/

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> In article <(E-Mail Removed)>,
> (E-Mail Removed) says...
>> Hi,
>>
>> Is there any freeware (and info) that will enable me to clone a hard
>> drive?
>
> You might try Drive SnapShot...
>
> http://www.drivesnapshot.de/en/
>
> --
> Kerodo

Looks like a good program -- but it isn't freeware.

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Kerodo <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in
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> In article <(E-Mail Removed)>,
> (E-Mail Removed) says...
>> Hi,
>>
>> Is there any freeware (and info) that will enable me to clone a hard
>> drive?
>
> You might try Drive SnapShot...
>
> http://www.drivesnapshot.de/en/
>

Looked good until I saw it was "trialware".

Ho-hum.

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On Wed, 29 Jun 2005 05:54:01 +0100, John Latter <(E-Mail Removed)>
wrote:

>Hi,
>
>Is there any freeware (and info) that will enable me to clone a hard
>drive?

I have never found a real need to clone an entire HDD. In fact, I recommend
against it for personal use. You tend to copy a lot of unneeded junk and
past mistakes.

All you need to do is to burn your documents, pictures, e-mail addresses,
links, and music to a CD or DVD. All the rest of the software can be
re-installed from CD or downloaded from the web as you did originally.

What with all the Windows bloat and spyware today, you need a fresh install
occasionally anyway. Heavy users benefit from a fresh install ever 6-12
months. Light users a bit longer, but everyone should do an occasional
fresh install.

-- Bob