Program to image one hard drive to another?

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RedFox

Hi Everyone,

I need to move the contents of a small HD, including a Win2K installation,
to a much bigger one. Is there a good program that could do this and allow
me to use the Win2K that would then be on the big disk?
I know that Western Digital gave these "ghost-type" progs away with new HDs
many years ago.

TIA

RF
 
Hi Everyone,
I need to move the contents of a small HD, including a Win2K installation,
to a much bigger one. Is there a good program that could do this and allow
me to use the Win2K that would then be on the big disk?
I know that Western Digital gave these "ghost-type" progs away with new HDs
many years ago.

TIA

RF
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I believe all the hard drive makers have installation software for
free download that allows you to transfer the contents of your old
drive to your new drive. The software is made to go on a floppy
disk, and then you just boot from the floppy after installing the
new hard drive as master on your primary IDE channel, with the old
drive elsewhere on the same computer.
 
Al Smith said:
I believe all the hard drive makers have installation software for
free download that allows you to transfer the contents of your old
drive to your new drive. The software is made to go on a floppy
disk, and then you just boot from the floppy after installing the
new hard drive as master on your primary IDE channel, with the old
drive elsewhere on the same computer.
Click to expand...

Thanks Al.

I thought that too but I visited WD and searched under imaging and found
nothing. Maybe they are using a new word.

RF
 
RedFox
I need to move the contents of a small HD, including a Win2K installation,
to a much bigger one. Is there a good program that could do
this and allow me to use the Win2K that would then be on the big disk?
Click to expand...

There are two Windows applications which allow an image to be made (and
hence transferred to a new HDD).

The first one is http://www.towodo.com/products/allimage/

and the second one is http://www.runtime.org/dixml.htm

The first application is free for a few days and the second one is true
freeware and only runs on XP.

HTH

Cheers

RMC, England
 
I need to move the contents of a small HD, including a Win2K
installation, to a much bigger one. Is there a good program that could
do this and allow me to use the Win2K that would then be on the big
disk?
Click to expand...

HDClone
3.5MB

Copies smaller onto larger drives for migrating or backing up complete
installations as well as for data rescuing. The download package contains a
program to easily create a bootable floppy disk or CD/DVD under Windows
with only few clicks. A floppy image, ISO image, and manual as PDF are also
enclosed.

http://www.miray.de/download/sat.hdclone.html

This program is also included on the "Ultimate Boot CD"-

http://www.ultimatebootcd.com/
 
RMC said:
RedFox


There are two Windows applications which allow an image to be made (and
hence transferred to a new HDD).

The first one is http://www.towodo.com/products/allimage/

and the second one is http://www.runtime.org/dixml.htm

The first application is free for a few days and the second one is true
freeware and only runs on XP.

HTH
Click to expand...

According to the website, the second one (Drive Image XML) requires a
Pentium processor. I have an AMT Athlon with which I presume this program
would not work.

<quote>

System Requirements:
Pentium Processor
256 MB RAM
Windows XP or 2003

</quote>

===

Frank Bohan

¶ Chastity is curable, if detected early.
 
"RedFox" <[email protected]> wrote:
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I need to move the contents of a small HD, including a Win2K installation,
to a much bigger one. Is there a good program that could do this and allow
me to use the Win2K that would then be on the big disk?
I know that Western Digital gave these "ghost-type" progs away with new HDs
many years ago.
Click to expand...

I have this message saved from an old article here in ACF:

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XXCLONE works well for creating a bootable cloned drive on the NT
based OS.

Art

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http://www.xxclone.com/



* Makes a self-bootable clone of Windows system disk.

* Supports all 32-bit Windows (95, 98, ME, NT4, 2000, XP).

* Can restore the self-bootability in many cases.
It takes only a minute to run.
Everyone should keep the Freeware handy for just in case.

* The Pro version is ideal for daily backup.

* Supports common internal disk drives (IDE, SATA, SCSI).

* Supports external USB/FIREWIRE drives (good for a laptop).

* Competes with Norton Ghost, DriveImage, MaxBlast.

* Much faster than any of them in typical daily backup.

* Need not go to the DOS mode. Operates in regular Windows
environment.


I used xxcopy back in 98 and ME and it worked like a charm everytime,
without fail.

I'm tempted to delete my old backup images and give his a whirl
myself.
 
bambam said:
HDClone
3.5MB

Copies smaller onto larger drives for migrating or backing up complete
installations as well as for data rescuing. The download package contains a
program to easily create a bootable floppy disk or CD/DVD under Windows
with only few clicks. A floppy image, ISO image, and manual as PDF are also
enclosed.

http://www.miray.de/download/sat.hdclone.html

This program is also included on the "Ultimate Boot CD"-

http://www.ultimatebootcd.com/
Click to expand...

My thanks everyone for the great replies :-)

Now I have two problems. I have to go away, and leave my computer <sigh!>
for a whole two weeks.
The second one is that my 2-year old Pioneer DVD-RW DVR-105 is going belly
up. The CD or DVD won't eject, so I have to use a wire to get them out.
Then,
when I load a different DVD or CD it is not recognized. If I reboot, it is
recognized.

Will report back to this thread in about two weeks.

Thanks again for the help.

RF

PS I tried to post this twice recently and the SBC server was down each
time.
 
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