Cloning questions

[Jess Fertudei]

So... this time I am about to replace a 40G drive with a Seagate 120G in my
homebuilt.


I currently have 4 partitions that were created by Partition Magic 4... it
is a multiboot system with 98 on C and XP on D (E and F are storage).

Are there any cheap or freeware utilities that are user friendly and
intuitive that will allow me to make a direct clone of this drive and
preserve the dual boot? I was going to use Ghost 2003 and then read a few
reviews that said it had issues with hanging at times and might wipe both
drives... the whole point here is that I need to keep the 40G for backup as
I no longer have one and want to do a periodic clone to keep up. I
considered Ghost 9 but can't do the costs and then heard that it will not
keep both OS's bootable anyhow. I called Seagate to ask about the stuff they
packaged with it and they said that there's will not keep them both bootable
either.

I was going to try the free trial Acronis True Image and it says something
about not having cloning activated.


I need to get this done and need to watch the bucks... ideas????????

 

[Thomas Wendell]

You have only physical one HD now?
Connect new HD as slave. Use cloning software (I use DriveImage 2002, but
should work in Ghost2003 also) and do "disk copy" (usually it asks how to
use additional disk space, proportionally or leave extra as empty).Power
down. REMOVE OLD DISK, rejumper new as master. Boot (should still have dual
boot). Runs system to see if any errors, booting a few times.
NOW you can connect old disk (jumpered as slave), format and partition it
etc...

What Seagate was referring to was that you can't have both DRIVES identical
and bootable (drive lettering, system partition etc. problems). Dual boot
(W98 & WXP)functions, as it's one DRIVE only..


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[Jess Fertudei]

Right... only one physical drive. When I went to use the software that came
with the new one there was something in the wording that spooked me that
suggested that once I installed it (their software) that it might cause
problems for boot data. So I called them and they agreed.

Maybe the issue is only with their software. At any rate... I'll see what I
can get for cheap and go for it.






Thanks

 

[Thomas Wendell]

If you do a _disk copy_, it shouldn't make any difference what or how many
OSs there are, as the disk copying should be sector by sector....


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