Cloning HDD

[Guest]

I have an HP Pavillion 7915 in which the factory installed HDD has the OS
(XP) in a hidden partition. In a previous post I read about the possibility
of cloning the C: drive. QUESTION: would the cloning procedure clone the
hidden partition?

 

[Yves Leclerc]

If you select to clone the hard drive completely, it should.

 

[Guest]

Thanks, Yves!!!

If you select to clone the hard drive completely, it should.

 

[Guest]

Another question has arisen: what constitutes selecting to clone the hard
drive completely using XP's XCOPY?

 

[David H. Lipman]

From: "Marty" <[email protected]>

| Another question has arisen: what constitutes selecting to clone the hard
| drive completely using XP's XCOPY?
|
| "Marty" wrote:
|
NONE !

XCOPY is a file copying utility, not a cloning application and works at the file level and
not at the disk partition level.

You need software such as Symantec Ghost 2003.

 

[Guest]

Thanks, David! Guess that wraps this thread up.

From: "Marty" <[email protected]>

| Another question has arisen: what constitutes selecting to clone the hard
| drive completely using XP's XCOPY?
|
| "Marty" wrote:
|

NONE !

XCOPY is a file copying utility, not a cloning application and works at the file level and
not at the disk partition level.

You need software such as Symantec Ghost 2003.

 

[Guest]

Thanks, David! Guess that wraps this thread up.

:

Try the HDD manufacturer's website and look at the 'HDD Utilities', for
example Maxtor, have a utility called 'MaxBlast', it clones drives, but
iirc only if one of the drives is a maxtor

Sim