Duplicating a hard drive.

[Bazzer Smith]

I have been considering copying my old hard drive onto
my newer (probably quiter) HD, its an XP system so it
has a recovery partition on it in a different format (FAT32,
not NTFS (or whatever), I did this easily on my old computer
(98). But I can see me havng probs with the new XP computer?

 

[Rod Speed]

I have been considering copying my old hard drive onto
my newer (probably quiter) HD, its an XP system so it
has a recovery partition on it in a different format (FAT32,
not NTFS (or whatever), I did this easily on my old computer
(98). But I can see me havng probs with the new XP computer?

Not if you clone the physical drive with something
like True Image and do that from the bootable CD.

 

[Jan Alter]

Not if you clone the physical drive with something
like True Image and do that from the bootable CD.

True Image would be fine to do this but why do you think it's necessary to
do this from a bootable CD?
Normally one could simply use the Clone Disk feature from the True Image
program and then simply restart the computer using the new cloned disk.

 

[Ken]

True Image would be fine to do this but why do you think it's necessary to
do this from a bootable CD?
Normally one could simply use the Clone Disk feature from the True Image
program and then simply restart the computer using the new cloned disk.

I am not familiar with True Image, but one thing to watch out for on
cloning a XP HD with a restoration partition is the Boot.ini file. Many
have the restoration partition as the first partition and the boot
partition as the second. Unless the cloning software changes this entry
when copying only the boot partition, the cloned HD will not boot.
Changing the Boot.ini file is necessary.

 

[Jan Alter]

I am not familiar with True Image, but one thing to watch out for on
cloning a XP HD with a restoration partition is the Boot.ini file. Many
have the restoration partition as the first partition and the boot
partition as the second. Unless the cloning software changes this entry
when copying only the boot partition, the cloned HD will not boot.
Changing the Boot.ini file is necessary.

It's not necessary using True Image, as I've done it without having to touch
the .ini file

 

[Ken]

It's not necessary using True Image, as I've done it without having to touch
the .ini file

That is interesting. It must be pretty smart software.

 

[Rod Speed]

True Image would be fine to do this but why do you think it's necessary to do this from
a bootable CD?

It can help with the weirder recovery partitions, essentially
because the bootable CD uses linux and the installed TI doesnt.

Normally one could simply use the Clone Disk feature from the True Image program and
then simply restart the computer using the new cloned disk.

Yes, but the recovery partition may not be as visible to TI that way.