Free alternative to Norton Ghost?

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ceed

Hi,

I am going to have to replace the drive in my laptop and need something
like Norton Ghost so that I do not have to build up my system all over
again. Anyone know of a free solution that could make my new disk
adventure relatively risk free and simple?
 
P

philo

"ceed"
Hi,

I am going to have to replace the drive in my laptop and need something
like Norton Ghost so that I do not have to build up my system all over
again. Anyone know of a free solution that could make my new disk
adventure relatively risk free and simple?
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if you are using win98
then just google for xxcopy
use the /clone switch
 
L

Lars =?iso-8859-1?Q?J=F8rgensen?=

ceed said:
I am going to have to replace the drive in my laptop and need something
like Norton Ghost so that I do not have to build up my system all over
again. Anyone know of a free solution that could make my new disk
adventure relatively risk free and simple?
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I haven't tried it yet, but it seems okay.
http://www.partition-saving.com/
 
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burris

ceed said:
Forgot to mention that I am using Windows XP. Thank you anyway.
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In that case, go to http://xxclone.com/ and download that program.
It's Free and works beautifully. This will not only clone XP, which is
difficult due to the way the registry functions, but it will also make
the cloned drive bootable.

Since you will probably not be able to have another HDD running
concurrently in your laptop, sign on to the xxcopy forum on Yahoo and
there are a number of very bright posters including the developer, who
will guide you and answer any questions.

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/xxcopy/

Good luck....

burris
 
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Bjorn Simonsen

burris wrote in said:
In that case, go to http://xxclone.com/ and download that program.
It's Free and works beautifully.
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but <http://xxclone.com/> states:

"Note: This beta test version will expire within 30 days from the
release date of the program. We intend to release the next
version before the current beta test version expires. If you
*MUST* operate a verion of XXCLONE which does not expire (after a
successful testing of the current version on your system), please
contact Pixelab.

The current version of XXCLONE works only on Windows NT/2K/XP.
It does not support Windows 95/98/ME.
It does not support non-standard partitionings or boot control
schemes such as BootMagic.
It may not work with SCSI-interfaced disks."

All the best,
Bjorn Simonsen
 
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burris

Bjorn said:
but <http://xxclone.com/> states:

"Note: This beta test version will expire within 30 days from the
release date of the program. We intend to release the next
version before the current beta test version expires. If you
*MUST* operate a verion of XXCLONE which does not expire (after a
successful testing of the current version on your system), please
contact Pixelab.

The current version of XXCLONE works only on Windows NT/2K/XP.
It does not support Windows 95/98/ME.
It does not support non-standard partitionings or boot control
schemes such as BootMagic.
It may not work with SCSI-interfaced disks."

All the best,
Bjorn Simonsen
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I was a beta tester for them from the very beginning. Because the
program is still in beta, the developer causes it to expire every 30
days in order to update the functions that are suggested. This has been
the scheme for a few years now. Meanwhile, it is free and as I
indicated, works like a charm.
With respect to ceed's original question, he may find the answer in the
forum. Beside that, there is a lot of information that can be learned
from there.
No, I don't work for the company....
 
K

Karen

burris said:
In that case, go to http://xxclone.com/ and download that program.
It's Free and works beautifully. This will not only clone XP, which is
difficult due to the way the registry functions, but it will also make
the cloned drive bootable.
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I couldn't download it without a username and password. How do you get
around that? This is what I got:

Authorization Required
This server could not verify that you are authorized to access the document
requested. Either you supplied the wrong credentials (e.g., bad password),
or your browser doesn't understand how to supply the credentials required.
Additionally, a 404 Not Found error was encountered while trying to use an
ErrorDocument to handle the request.

Karen....
 
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/3iff //ullins

In that case, go to http://xxclone.com/ and download that program.
It's Free and works beautifully. This will not only clone XP, which is
difficult due to the way the registry functions, but it will also make
the cloned drive bootable.

Since you will probably not be able to have another HDD running
concurrently in your laptop, sign on to the xxcopy forum on Yahoo and
there are a number of very bright posters including the developer, who
will guide you and answer any questions.

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/xxcopy/
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now *that looks awesome.
 
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/3iff //ullins

====================================
I couldn't download it without a username and password. How do you get
around that? This is what I got:

Authorization Required
This server could not verify that you are authorized to access the document
requested. Either you supplied the wrong credentials (e.g., bad password),
or your browser doesn't understand how to supply the credentials required.
Additionally, a 404 Not Found error was encountered while trying to use an
ErrorDocument to handle the request.
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karen, i found this on their front page:

"Note: You need to sign up for a Test Drive in order to visit the
betatest section of this web page which requires a log-in with a
password."

if you scroll down that front page you will find their "Test Drive
Request Form".

i'll wait until its not a beta , myself...
 
H

Howard Schwartz

ceed
<ceed@abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyzabcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyzabcdefghijk.com
wrote in I am going to have to replace the drive in my laptop and need something
like Norton Ghost so that I do not have to build up my system all over
again. Anyone know of a free solution that could make my new disk
adventure relatively risk free and simple?
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Although seldem mentioned, ranish partition manager - the popular
partition utility as a `copy' function that copies a partition
or a whole disk to another disk, unused space, or partition. Seems
to work fine.

A similar copy function, alsy fast and find is the Copy function
in the partitioning and boot manager: BootNG. A limitation of
the latter, is it only copies a partition to unused space, not
to a formated, but empty second partition.
 
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burris

/3iff //ullins said:
karen, i found this on their front page:

"Note: You need to sign up for a Test Drive in order to visit the
betatest section of this web page which requires a log-in with a
password."

if you scroll down that front page you will find their "Test Drive
Request Form".

i'll wait until its not a beta , myself...
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I suspect that when it becomes final, it will no longer be freeware.

Maybe...maybe not....

--
 
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dg1261

Howard Schwartz said:
A similar copy function, alsy fast and find is the Copy function
in the partitioning and boot manager: BootNG. A limitation of
the latter, is it only copies a partition to unused space, not
to a formated, but empty second partition.
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That's not a limitation, it's a prerequisite to making a clone. When you're
cloning (i.e., copying sectors as opposed to copying files), the target
*must* be unpartitioned space. It stems from the definition of what a
"clone" is. Apps that appear to clone to an existing partition are either
not making true clones (they're instead copying files) or they're quietly
deleting the existing partition so it's unpartitioned space before
continuing. DriveImage and PartitionMagic will warn you if you try to clone
to an existing partition, then they'll go ahead and delete the existing
partition and continue. BootIt-NG doesn't continue, it makes you
deliberately delete the existing partition yourself. It's just a
conservative approach, to make sure you are certain that's what you really
want to do.
 
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REM

ceed wrote:
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Forgot to mention that I am using Windows XP. Thank you anyway.
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Me too. I'm in the process of creating a new Ultimate Boot CD for
Windows. I'm curious as to whether xxcopy can work by booting from the
CD. I don't see any reason why it won't work, although I have not read
the forum. There might be some anti-piracy mechanism built into XP, so
that a bootable xxcopy will not work. I guess I'll find out...
 

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