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 Posted: Mon Jun 30, 2008 9:15 pm Post subject: Copy boot drive?? |
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Hello,
New to this group, but maybe someone can advise.
I've just put a second hard drive in this machine-160G
as a slave to the original 80G one.
What I have in mind is to copy the whole of drive C: onto
the new one, and then remove the original for use in a USB enclosure.
The question is, how to go about it........
Thanks,
Dave C. |
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jameshanley39@yahoo.co.uk
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| Posted: Mon Jun 30, 2008 10:23 pm Post subject: Re: Copy boot drive?? |
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On Jun 30, 5:15 pm, "DC" <spamm...@pissoff.net> wrote:
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Hello,
New to this group, but maybe someone can advise.
I've just put a second hard drive in this machine-160G
as a slave to the original 80G one.
What I have in mind is to copy the whole of drive C: onto
the new one, and then remove the original for use in a USB enclosure.
The question is, how to go about it........
Thanks,
Dave C.
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try googling
how do i copy a hard drive
youl should know that there is file backup, and there is cloning. But
googling what you wrote still works.
try any link, you could even try the first one.
cloning would do what you want. it is more than a file copy.
acronis, norton ghost. , Maybe some free programs too.
Now explain why you couldn't google that?
The answer was on te first link, and a thousand others.
It's not like nobody ever thought of it before. |
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Baron
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| Posted: Mon Jun 30, 2008 10:44 pm Post subject: Re: Copy boot drive?? |
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DC wrote:
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Hello,
New to this group, but maybe someone can advise.
I've just put a second hard drive in this machine-160G
as a slave to the original 80G one.
What I have in mind is to copy the whole of drive C: onto
the new one, and then remove the original for use in a USB enclosure.
The question is, how to go about it........
Thanks,
Dave C.
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You could try "dd" disk dupe from a Linux live CD.
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Best Regards:
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Paul
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| Posted: Mon Jun 30, 2008 11:30 pm Post subject: Re: Copy boot drive?? |
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DC wrote:
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Hello,
New to this group, but maybe someone can advise.
I've just put a second hard drive in this machine-160G
as a slave to the original 80G one.
What I have in mind is to copy the whole of drive C: onto
the new one, and then remove the original for use in a USB enclosure.
The question is, how to go about it........
Thanks,
Dave C.
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When you buy a hard drive now, if you head on over to the disk
drive manufacturer's web site, they provide freely downloadable
tools, for moving the data from one drive to the other. Have
a look in the download section. For example, if you bought a
Seagate or a Maxtor drive, you'd head to seagate.com and look
for a download there. Some of the tools, also come with a
PDF manual, so you can understand the available options.
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DC
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| Posted: Wed Jul 02, 2008 12:37 am Post subject: Re: Copy boot drive?? |
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Thanks Paul,
It was a Western Digital which I took out of the BT Vision box before it
went in the skip.
I followed your advice and got a utility which did the trick without a
hitch.
Good man.
Dave C.
Paul wrote:
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DC wrote:
Hello,
New to this group, but maybe someone can advise.
I've just put a second hard drive in this machine-160G
as a slave to the original 80G one.
What I have in mind is to copy the whole of drive C: onto
the new one, and then remove the original for use in a USB enclosure.
The question is, how to go about it........
Thanks,
Dave C.
When you buy a hard drive now, if you head on over to the disk
drive manufacturer's web site, they provide freely downloadable
tools, for moving the data from one drive to the other. Have
a look in the download section. For example, if you bought a
Seagate or a Maxtor drive, you'd head to seagate.com and look
for a download there. Some of the tools, also come with a
PDF manual, so you can understand the available options.
Paul |
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