Any good Drive copy utilities?

[The flaming brain]

After just having one of my hard drives pooched by 3rd party
partitioning software, is there anything that can do good drive to
drive copies of NTFS volumes that is not Norton Ghost 12/14 or
Partition magic?

Does the old Dos Ghost work for drives as big or bigger then 500GB?
At this point the old ghost is looking good.

The reason I ask this is because Ghost 12/14 is bugged on my system,
it will not copy the drive while I am in windows XP, and then tried to
reboot, but upon reboot or using recovery disk there is no "Drive to
drive" copy option.

Ugh! Some days it seems things were easier under dos :/

 

[Big_Al]

After just having one of my hard drives pooched by 3rd party
partitioning software, is there anything that can do good drive to
drive copies of NTFS volumes that is not Norton Ghost 12/14 or
Partition magic?

Does the old Dos Ghost work for drives as big or bigger then 500GB?
At this point the old ghost is looking good.

The reason I ask this is because Ghost 12/14 is bugged on my system,
it will not copy the drive while I am in windows XP, and then tried to
reboot, but upon reboot or using recovery disk there is no "Drive to
drive" copy option.

Ugh! Some days it seems things were easier under dos :/

Acronis is not really a drive to drive copy, but more of a backup
utility. It will make a clone of a drive onto another drive, great for
changing hardware, or it will make an image of a hard drive, good for
restoring all or parts of it later.
A retail CD will boot and allow restores.

SecondCopy seems to read as a great file sync program. I've never used
it, as I prefer goodsync or allway inc's program.

I've used partition magic and had no issues with it, and a good number
of people on these groups swear by ghost, of course I don't know which
version.

HTH,
Al.

 

[Big_Al]

Acronis is not really a drive to drive copy, but more of a backup
utility. It will make a clone of a drive onto another drive, great for
changing hardware, or it will make an image of a hard drive, good for
restoring all or parts of it later.
A retail CD will boot and allow restores.

SecondCopy seems to read as a great file sync program. I've never used
it, as I prefer goodsync or allway inc's program.

I've used partition magic and had no issues with it, and a good number
of people on these groups swear by ghost, of course I don't know which
version.

HTH,
Al.

I should add that I'm not sure of your definition of drive to drive
copy. Explorer is a drive to drive copy program, so I just gave you
info on utilities I know of. When I think about it, Acronis *is* a
drive to drive copy.
Read between the lines then on my reply.

 

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Acronis is not really a drive to drive copy, but more of a backup
utility. It will make a clone of a drive onto another drive, great for
changing hardware, or it will make an image of a hard drive, good for
restoring all or parts of it later.
A retail CD will boot and allow restores.

SecondCopy seems to read as a great file sync program. I've never used
it, as I prefer goodsync or allway inc's program.

I think Acronis could be regarded as a drive-to-drive copy, provided you
have enough space somewhere else to store the image file which you can
then restore to another drive.

I tried Ghost and really didn't like it, 'tho some folks swear by it. I
found myself swearing *at* it...

I have Second Copy and it's great! It is intended for user data files
and will not copy system files.

I've used partition magic and had no issues with it, and a good number
of people on these groups swear by ghost, of course I don't know which
version.

Partition magic began giving me problems on XP, even after all the
updates. Sometimes it would schedule boot-time work and then fail in the
middle, leaving things in a terrible mess.