freeware disc cloner...does one exist?

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suggestions please?......i want to clone my laptop 100%....is this
possible?...drivers, windows, prog settings, the lot. And maybe store
it all online?

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suggestions please?......i want to clone my laptop 100%....is this
possible?...drivers, windows, prog settings, the lot. And maybe store
it all online?
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Acronis do a free SE version. Store it all online? Have you any idea
how many DAYS it'd take to upload several GB?
 
suggestions please?......i want to clone my laptop 100%....is this
possible?...drivers, windows, prog settings, the lot. And maybe store
it all online?

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Get XCLONE13.ZIP (not XXCLONE).

This also works on Win98.

Jack
 
Here you go folks. this version & procedure does all versions of
Windows.

No need to bolt the 2nd hard drive in, make it slave, cable it up &
leave outside the case.
You may have a choice of jumper settings on the master HD, such as
master with slave or ms.

xxcopy
http://www.xxcopy.com/
http://www.xxcopy.com/download/xxcopy.zip

Start > Programs > MS-DOS Prompt or Command Prompt in XP.
Copy a command from the selection below & click paste in MS-DOS or
Command Prompt, then click Enter.
No need to close any programs down.

1. XXCOPY C:\ D:\ /CLONE
The above copies the contents of your C drive to a backup drive D, if
you have a second or more partitions, you adjust the C to suit, The
backup drive in that situation, is best partitioned the same as the
main drive.

Below applies if you want to make the new hard drive your main drive
(usually C )
http://members.tripod.com/~diligent/harddisk.htm
Use the startup disk to boot the computer and when you are at the A:\
prompt type sys c: and press Enter. The required boot information will
be copied to the new disk and you have a working copy of the old hard
disk.
If the partition is not active, use fdisk, option 2.
 
Here you go folks. this version & procedure does all versions of
Windows.

No need to bolt the 2nd hard drive in, make it slave, cable it up &
leave outside the case.
You may have a choice of jumper settings on the master HD, such as
master with slave or ms.

xxcopy
http://www.xxcopy.com/
http://www.xxcopy.com/download/xxcopy.zip

Start > Programs > MS-DOS Prompt or Command Prompt in XP.
Copy a command from the selection below & click paste in MS-DOS or
Command Prompt, then click Enter.
No need to close any programs down.

1. XXCOPY C:\ D:\ /CLONE
The above copies the contents of your C drive to a backup drive D, if
you have a second or more partitions, you adjust the C to suit, The
backup drive in that situation, is best partitioned the same as the
main drive.

Below applies if you want to make the new hard drive your main drive
(usually C )
http://members.tripod.com/~diligent/harddisk.htm
Use the startup disk to boot the computer and when you are at the A:\
prompt type sys c: and press Enter. The required boot information will
be copied to the new disk and you have a working copy of the old hard
disk.
If the partition is not active, use fdisk, option 2.
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I'm don't think that xxcopy will clone XP to another HDD and make it
bootable.

XXcopy did this very well up through 98, but due to the ever changing
system volume in XP, it won't work.

The xxcopy designer has a program called xxclone that does this
perfectly for XP.
He has a freeware version.
xxclone.com
 
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