can I ghost a failing boot drive to a good one?

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peter

If I have windowxp installed on drive C:, and the drive starts to become
unreliable, can I copy the entire drive to a new drive, remove the old one
and boot from the new one?

This works with older OS like win98, but I'm not sure about XP. Do I have to
buy special disk copying/mirroring software for this purpose? Would it work
if file encryption is turned on?
 
It should work,usually drives fail because of bad sectors.To copy C: to new,
set new drive on same IDE cable,set as slave,format the drive,after,go to
run,
type:XCOPY C:\*.* D:\ /c/h/e/k/r Agree to all in the DOS window.When the
window quits,youre thru.D: being the new hd,but if asigned diffrent,use that
letter instead.Also,if you have problems starting new drive (doughtfull)
but if so,
boot to xp cd,at info screen select,install xp,repair this copy.
 
And you will ghost those "bad" sectors, along with the
corrupted/incomplete/missing information they contain, right over to the new
drive. Remember, Ghost does sector by sector copying, not file copying.

The time to make a Ghost image is when the drive and system are at their
peak. Ghost is not used to try to reclaim a failed or semi failed drive. It
seldom works.

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Richard Urban
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If I have windowxp installed on drive C:, and the drive starts to become
unreliable, can I copy the entire drive to a new drive, remove the old one
and boot from the new one?

This works with older OS like win98, but I'm not sure about XP. Do I have to
buy special disk copying/mirroring software for this purpose? Would it work
if file encryption is turned on?
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Peter,

please have a look at http://www.michna.com/kb/WxMove.htm .

Hans-Georg
 
Hans

You can do it with Acronis True Image version 9 provided the disk is not
physically corrupted.
 
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