Hard Drive Copy?

[NewsReader2k]

What is the best 'Software' to copy/clone a hard drive that contains the
WinXP operating system.

Im trying to upgrade my current system to a larger hard drive, but the
'drive copy' software that Ive tried won't copy a partition that contains OS
system files that are in use.

please help!!

 

[jimbo]

What is the best 'Software' to copy/clone a hard drive that contains the
WinXP operating system.

Im trying to upgrade my current system to a larger hard drive, but the
'drive copy' software that Ive tried won't copy a partition that contains OS
system files that are in use.

please help!!

Well, Norton Ghost clones drives with OSs, but I have not yet been
sucessful in getting the cloned drive to boot WinXP.

jimbo

 

[Yves Leclerc]

I have been very successful with Ghost myself. I set Ghost to do a "sector
by sector" copy. Only one problem I had is that Ghost did not expand my
partition once the copy was done. But that was a small problem since I also
have Partitoin Magic.

Y.

 

[Bob Davis]

What is the best 'Software' to copy/clone a hard drive that contains the
WinXP operating system.

Im trying to upgrade my current system to a larger hard drive, but the
'drive copy' software that Ive tried won't copy a partition that contains
OS system files that are in use.

I've been using Ghost 2002 and now 2003 and have never had a problem cloning
or restoring Win98SE or XP Pro. I clone once per week for my main desktop,
rotating six drives in mobil racks using a disk-to-disk clone, and two other
computers using image files. I recommend it highly, but have no experience
with the new version that runs from within Windows. Based on feedback from
forums and newsgroups I won't be upgrading.

 

[Rob R. Ainscough]

This tool works for me and is very easy to use:

http://www.fssdev.com/products/casperxp/default.asp?adc=google

$45

Rob.

 

[Guest]

Simply use the software xp already has installed,the utility is XCOPY.
Have youre formated slave with a primary partition set on the same IDE
chain as C:,then go to run,type:XCOPY C:\*.* D:\ /c/h/e/k/r
D: being the slave,however any other letter its assigned to would work.Also,
in the DOS window agree to all.

 

[Nathan McNulty]

I just wish Ghost was easier to use for those of us who don't have a
floppy drive

I have never had good luck with Ghost on my new system, but it did work
well on my older 733 MHz computer.

 

[Keith]

what kind of harddrive to (s) do you have
I use Western Digital drives and use the tool that they have on there sight
or a retail version usually comes with a disk