low-level sector copy IDE0 -> IDE1

[surface9]

Is there a bootable floppy that will make a sector by sector copy from
IDE0 to IDE1? I have a 40 gig h/d that is NOT formatted for windows,
but is formatted by a proprietary system and I also have a new 2nd
hard drive of the exact same make and model. Both drives have exactly
80,292,871 sectors of 512 bytes, and I just want all the sectors on
the 2nd one to be an exact copy of what is on the first one.

A long time ago I had a bootable floppy (non-dos) that would do just
that - it would copy sectors from whatever harddrive was connected on
IDE0 to whatever harddrive was on IDE1. It took a few hours but it
worked. I no longer have that floppy and I can't remember what it was
called or where I got it from, but, I think I had to download a
program that created it onto any blank pre-formatted floppy. I
beleive it was shareware, because it was not very sophisticated - you
had to make sure you connected your h/d's up correctly because the
program didn't check anything - it just went through the sector
copying exercise without any user input.

If anyone remember this program, or a current one that will do this,
please advise.

 

[Folkert Rienstra]

Is there a bootable floppy that will make a sector by sector copy from
IDE0 to IDE1? I have a 40 gig h/d that is NOT formatted for windows,
but is formatted by a proprietary system and I also have a new 2nd
hard drive of the exact same make and model. Both drives have exactly
80,292,871 sectors of 512 bytes, and I just want all the sectors on
the 2nd one to be an exact copy of what is on the first one.

A long time ago I had a bootable floppy (non-dos) that would do just
that - it would copy sectors from whatever harddrive was connected on
IDE0 to whatever harddrive was on IDE1. It took a few hours but it
worked. I no longer have that floppy and I can't remember what it was
called or where I got it from, but, I think I had to download a
program that created it onto any blank pre-formatted floppy. I
beleive it was shareware, because it was not very sophisticated - you
had to make sure you connected your h/d's up correctly because the
program didn't check anything - it just went through the sector
copying exercise without any user input.

If anyone remember this program, or a current one that will do this,
please advise.

http://www.heise.de/ct/ftp/ctsi.shtml

h2copy.zip 28.895 20.04.00 DOS: H2copy V1.11, kopiert Festplatten sektorweise, "Datenpuzzle", c't 6/2000, S.116
ftp://ftp.heise.de/pub/ct/ctsi/h2copy.zip

 

[Rod Speed]

Is there a bootable floppy that will make a sector by sector copy from IDE0 to IDE1?

Yes, and some bootable CDs too.

I have a 40 gig h/d that is NOT formatted for windows, but is formatted
by a proprietary system and I also have a new 2nd hard drive of the
exact same make and model. Both drives have exactly 80,292,871
sectors of 512 bytes, and I just want all the sectors on the 2nd one
to be an exact copy of what is on the first one.

A long time ago I had a bootable floppy (non-dos) that would do just
that - it would copy sectors from whatever harddrive was connected on
IDE0 to whatever harddrive was on IDE1. It took a few hours but it
worked. I no longer have that floppy and I can't remember what it
was called or where I got it from, but, I think I had to download a
program that created it onto any blank pre-formatted floppy. I
beleive it was shareware, because it was not very sophisticated - you
had to make sure you connected your h/d's up correctly because the
program didn't check anything - it just went through the sector
copying exercise without any user input.

If anyone remember this program, or a current one that will do this, please advise.

Most of the imagers will do that. I prefer True Image myself,
but even real dinosaurs like Ghost 2003 will do that.

Foresensic cloners will too.

 

[surface9]

http://www.heise.de/ct/ftp/ctsi.shtml

h2copy.zip 28.895 20.04.00 DOS: H2copy V1.11, kopiert Festplatten sektorweise, "Datenpuzzle", c't 6/2000, S.116ftp://ftp.heise.de/pub/ct/ctsi/h2copy.zip- Hide quoted text -

Thanks, Folkert, it worked like a charm. H2COPY made a copy of my
proprietary h/d and the new h/d is now performaing flawlessly.

The entire package (h2copy) is in german, which I do not understand,
but, I went ahead and made my best guess and it worked. At the end,
however, there was the following message, which I hope someone can
translate for me.

"Fertig.

Bitte sicherheitshalber neu booten -- nicht auf die platten
zugreifen!"

I hope that says it was done and that I should reboot, but, please
translate to english if you can.

Thanks,

littleberry

 

[Folkert Rienstra]

Thanks, Folkert, it worked like a charm. H2COPY made a copy of my
proprietary h/d and the new h/d is now performaing flawlessly.

The entire package (h2copy) is in german, which I do not understand,
but, I went ahead and made my best guess and it worked. At the end,
however, there was the following message, which I hope someone can
translate for me.

Done.


Bitte sicherheitshalber neu booten --
Reboot

nicht auf die platten zugreifen!"

Do not access the drives.

I hope that says it was done and that I should reboot,

Yup, plus the warning to not access the target drive (since the OS has
not updated the drive's contents, hence the reboot) which has changed.

 

[Rod Speed]

Thanks, Folkert, it worked like a charm. H2COPY made a copy of my
proprietary h/d and the new h/d is now performaing flawlessly.

The entire package (h2copy) is in german, which I do not understand,
but, I went ahead and made my best guess and it worked. At the end,
however, there was the following message, which I hope someone can
translate for me.

"Fertig.

Bitte sicherheitshalber neu booten -- nicht auf die platten zugreifen!"

Google's language tools claims that means

"Finished. Ask for safety's sake again boats -- do not access the plates! " |-)