How to copy a C: Windows partition

[Bjørnar Bolsøy]

I've seen several sources claiming it's possible to copy the
contents of your C: drive to another parition, say for instance
to migrate your Windows installation to a new disk, but I've
always come short on locked files in use by Windows.

Anyone know if there's a way to accomplish this, sans using
drive image tools?



MVH
Bjørnar

 

[Pegasus \(MVP\)]

I've seen several sources claiming it's possible to copy the
contents of your C: drive to another parition, say for instance
to migrate your Windows installation to a new disk, but I've
always come short on locked files in use by Windows.

Anyone know if there's a way to accomplish this, sans using
drive image tools?



MVH
Bjørnar

Here is how you can do it:
- Install your disk as a slave disk in some other Win2000 PC.
- Copy everything from the slave disk to the new disk, including
hidden files.
- Install the new disk in its usual machine.
- Restore the Win2000 boot environment.

Partition imaging tools are beginning to look attractive, especially
if they are as attractively priced as Acronis TrueImage . . .

 

[Guest]

Yes partition magic. www.symantec.com aquired them awhile back. You can copy a entires disk from one disk to another. Kinda of long way but here goes. Use the 2000 backup utility. It will create a image of the disk and then you can extract the image to the other drive. This is assuming you have a dual boot. One blank drive or one you knwo is cool to over-write. Try that. Should work. utility is located start\program files\accessories\system tools. You can also use norton ghost. Very fast and works well. also @ www.symantec.co

good luc
Rich

 

[Josef Stalin]

I've seen several sources claiming it's possible to copy the
contents of your C: drive to another parition, say for instance
to migrate your Windows installation to a new disk, but I've
always come short on locked files in use by Windows.

Anyone know if there's a way to accomplish this, sans using
drive image tools?



MVH
Bjørnar

I use DriveImage. Boot up in DOS. Load up DriveImage. Since W2K isn't
running, nothing is locked. Clone the partition to another partition or to
another disk. You now have a perfect carbon copy. I understand that Ghost
is similar but I haven't used Ghost so I can't say with any certainty.

Uncle Joe

 

[Willard]

I use DriveImage. Boot up in DOS. Load up DriveImage. Since W2K isn't
running, nothing is locked. Clone the partition to another partition or to
another disk. You now have a perfect carbon copy. I understand that Ghost
is similar but I haven't used Ghost so I can't say with any certainty.

Uncle Joe

Joe,

I have DriveImage 7.0 which uses "CopyDrive" in Windows...

How do you load "DriveImage" from DOS or Command prompt??
If you boot with an A: DOS floppy, then what??

Willard

 

[Josef Stalin]

Josef Stalin wrote:

Joe,

I have DriveImage 7.0 which uses "CopyDrive" in Windows...

How do you load "DriveImage" from DOS or Command prompt??
If you boot with an A: DOS floppy, then what??

Willard

My version is dated 1998. I like it and never saw any reason to update. I
have recently received Ghost and DriveImage OEM versions that came with
hardware but haven't bothered changing.

To answer your question:

I open my computer case and install my backup HDD. With my computer case,
it's very easy.
I boot up with a W98 disk from bootdisk.com.
I have a subdir on one of my HDD partitions (and the program on a floppy
should the HDD fail) with DriveImage.
I load up DriveImage.
DriveImage asks me if I was to save/restore an image or clone a partition.
My version does not have CopyDrive.
Even with max compression, it takes only a few minutes (about 700MB/min
according to DriveImage) to create a partition image. (Just in case of some
problem, I do not overwrite the previous image).
I create the partition image(s) to the backup HDD. Shut the computer off.
Remove the backup HDD from the computer and store it elsewhere.

Probably more information than you wanted to know.

Uncle Josef

 

[Willard]

:




My version is dated 1998. I like it and never saw any reason to update. I
have recently received Ghost and DriveImage OEM versions that came with
hardware but haven't bothered changing.

To answer your question:

I open my computer case and install my backup HDD. With my computer case,
it's very easy.
I boot up with a W98 disk from bootdisk.com.
I have a subdir on one of my HDD partitions (and the program on a floppy
should the HDD fail) with DriveImage.
I load up DriveImage.
DriveImage asks me if I was to save/restore an image or clone a partition.
My version does not have CopyDrive.
Even with max compression, it takes only a few minutes (about 700MB/min
according to DriveImage) to create a partition image. (Just in case of some
problem, I do not overwrite the previous image).
I create the partition image(s) to the backup HDD. Shut the computer off.
Remove the backup HDD from the computer and store it elsewhere.

Probably more information than you wanted to know.

Uncle Josef

Josef,

I understand now; your older DriveImage allows cloning with DOS..
I have not been able to separate "CopyDrive" (clone} from DriveImage 7.0
for use with DOS...

I have used Ghost(PE & 2003) in DOS to copy one drive to another using
switches -IR or -IA for a sector by sector exact copy (clone) and switch
-B if the MBR is to be copied...

Thanks,
Willard