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I have a 120 gig hard drive partitioned into 6 logical drives. I want to
copy this entire drive (all partitions) to another 120 gig hard drive.
What's a good program to do this?
 
toneywho said:
I have a 120 gig hard drive partitioned into 6 logical drives. I want to
copy this entire drive (all partitions) to another 120 gig hard drive.
What's a good program to do this?
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Robocopy from the NT/XP Resource Kit. Fabulous command line utility.
 
toneywho said:
I have a 120 gig hard drive partitioned into 6 logical drives. I want to
copy this entire drive (all partitions) to another 120 gig hard drive.
What's a good program to do this?
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The new drive should come with software to copy the data or go to the
drive manufacturer's web site and download their copy software.
 
Some whole hard drive copying softwares quibble over a few MB differences on
"identical" hard drives. Then realignment of a partition size may be
needed. Some copying softwares don't do partition resizing.

.............
Jonny
 
Alan said:
Don't bother that way. get a raid card and mirror the drive
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If you're suggesting raid 1 (mirroring) as a backup technique, it's a poor
suggestion. It leaves you susceptible to simultaneous loss of the original
and backup to many of the most common dangers: severe power glitches, nearby
lightning strikes, virus attacks, even theft of the computer.

Mirroring is not a backup technique; its purpose is for use in an
application where downtime can't be tolerated (for example, an airline
reservation system), because it permits near instantaneous seamless
changeover to the mirror drive. When companies use mirroring they *still*
have backup to protect them against loss of everything.
 
Mirroring, in this case RAID 1, is for backup in case of hard drive failure.
This is assuming that all is well with what's written to the first hard
drive originally.

Copying a hard drive is usually a one time affair for replacement of the
original for many reasons not to include hard drive failure. Not suitable
for getting the hardware/software for RAID.
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Jonny
 
Mirroring, in this case RAID 1, is for backup in case of hard drive failure.
This is assuming that all is well with what's written to the first hard
drive originally.

Copying a hard drive is usually a one time affair for replacement of the
original for many reasons not to include hard drive failure. Not suitable
for getting the hardware/software for RAID.
............
Jonny
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I use Casper from Future Systems Solutions for total backup from one
hard drive to another. Works great for me.
 
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