disk mirroring

[Dave]

Let me make sure I understand this correctly. A clone is an identical
drive. An image contains everything the drive contains, yet it cannot be
installed and executed, but it has to be brought in. I would run restore
from floppy disk, that brings everything from the image drive, into a
newly blank installed drive. Please correct me if I am wrong. Thank you.
Which software does that?

An image file contains the hard drives geometry layout, disk signature, mbr,
partition information, filesystem entries and actual folders and files, with
the exception of the swapfile and hiberfil.sys. The entire contents are
normally compressed to save additional space. As a result, the image file
is usually much smaller than the partition contents space formerly occupied
by all the files and folders.

Am using DriveImage 7.0 for the purpose of imaging to offboard hard drives.
Its children, Ghost 9 and 10 from Symantec, are based on it. The recovery
process is from the DI 7.0 installation CD which acts as a recovery boot CD.
Recovery does not have to be to an identical hard drive. Can recover to
larger hard drive. Can make use of it utilizing that space by its larger
partition option.

The DI 7.0 installation also contains an image file explorer. You can view
the contents of the image file's folder/file contents. Recovery of same
individual files is possible if not a file in use or a system file while in
the XP environment. Image explorer should be used when exporting an entire
image file(s) to another partition or hard drive.

 

[Guest]

My 60GB C: drive is almost completely full. I have a new 200GB HD that I'd
like to make my c: drive. Can I use this same method to transfer all of my
C: drive info (including Windows XP) over to the new HD? If so, how should I
proceed? BTW, I'm not a real computer nerd but know enough to really screw
things up! Appreciate the advice.

Steven

 

[Rock]

My 60GB C: drive is almost completely full. I have a new 200GB HD that
I'd
like to make my c: drive. Can I use this same method to transfer all of
my
C: drive info (including Windows XP) over to the new HD? If so, how
should I
proceed? BTW, I'm not a real computer nerd but know enough to really
screw
things up! Appreciate the advice.

The new drive should either come with a copy utility on a floppy or CD in
the box or it can be downloaded from the drive manufacturer's web site.
Follow the directions precisely to copy the old drive to the new, then
remove the old drive, attach the new drive as Master on the primary channel
and boot up. After the first boot the old drive can be attached as a slave
drive, formatted and used as additional storage.

An alternate, as this thread indicates is to use Acronis True Image version
10, Norton Ghost, or Casper XP to clone the old drive to the new.

 

[Holz]

Appreciate the advice.

http://woodcontour.com/images/upg.pdf
It will show you how copy a drive an restore. My e-mail address is on the
bottom for more questions.

 

[Plato]

My 60GB C: drive is almost completely full. I have a new 200GB HD that I'd
like to make my c: drive. Can I use this same method to transfer all of my
C: drive info (including Windows XP) over to the new HD? If so, how should I
proceed? BTW, I'm not a real computer nerd but know enough to really screw
things up! Appreciate the advice.

One can try:

http://www.xxclone.com/

 

[Timothy Daniels]

My 60GB C: drive is almost completely full. I have a new 200GB HD that I'd

Google for "clone cloning hard drive" in this NG and in
microsoft.public.windowsxp.setup_deployment, and you'll get
tons of hits. I recomend using the utility called "Casper" by
Future Systems Solutions (www.FSSdev.com/products/casper/)
or the free cloning utility that the manufacturer of your new HD
might make available on its website.

*TimDaniels*

 

[Guest]

Thanks, Rock. I downloaded the utility file from the manufacturer and
followed it just like they instruct. Worked!

It turned out that my 60GB HD had two partitions. Both partitions copied
over to the new HD. I was able to disconnect the old HD and connect the new
HD to the primary IDE controller, boot up, and bingo. I then used TrueImage
to allocate the remainder of the 200GB HD and formatted the partition using
XP. I now have three logical drives on the one physical drive. Thanks for
your and everybody elses help.

Steve

 

[Rock]

Thanks, Rock. I downloaded the utility file from the manufacturer and
followed it just like they instruct. Worked!

It turned out that my 60GB HD had two partitions. Both partitions copied
over to the new HD. I was able to disconnect the old HD and connect the
new
HD to the primary IDE controller, boot up, and bingo. I then used
TrueImage
to allocate the remainder of the 200GB HD and formatted the partition
using
XP. I now have three logical drives on the one physical drive. Thanks
for
your and everybody elses help.

Great Steve, glad I could help and thanks for posting back.