Backing up an Entire Drive..

[WaxHaX0rS]

I have 2 Seagate SATA drives. My first drive is 160GB, but only detected by Windows 2000 as 127GB. I did the LBA Large Drive fix, and now it shows a second unformatted partition of 22GB. The 127GB partition is currently about 1GB shy of being full.

I just got a second 300GB HD and it's all set up and good to go. What I want to do is transfer EVERYTHING from the 160GB to the 300GB. Then I want to repartition the 160GB to make it one single large partition and reformat. Then I want to transfer everything from the 300GB back onto the 160GB and reformat the 300GB. I want to keep OS and Apps on the 160GB and use the 300GB for mostly storage.

What's the best way to accomplish this? I got ahold of a copy of Norton Ghost, but it only wants to back stuff up as images. I want to just copy everything so that the second drive is bootable once everything is copied. So I don't think I can use Norton. I thought of simply copying and pasting the entire 160GB drive and pasting it on the 300GB and pasting back, but I had a feeling this was too simple to work.

Any help would be great, thanks.

 

[ElFenix]

were either of the drives retail packages? if so, then it came with imaging software that will allow you to transfer the contents of one to the other and keep them bootable. otherwise, you can probably download the utility from the drive maker's website (seagate's seatools, for instance)

 

[WaxHaX0rS]

They were both OEM, but I'll check out Seatools, thanks.

 

[Jiggz]

Partition Commander or Partition Magic will make your wish come true in less than half the time and effort. With partition magic or partition commander, you can add or delete a partition without losing data. In your case, what you need to do is to delete the second partition of 22GB by merging it to the existing 127GB and you're done. But if you do not have this you can use Max Blast and also you need to look deeper in Ghost because it does have an option to copy an entire disk or a logical drive.

 

[Kaido]

Originally posted by: WaxHaX0rS
I have 2 Seagate SATA drives. My first drive is 160GB, but only detected by Windows 2000 as 127GB. I did the LBA Large Drive fix, and now it shows a second unformatted partition of 22GB. The 127GB partition is currently about 1GB shy of being full.

I just got a second 300GB HD and it's all set up and good to go. What I want to do is transfer EVERYTHING from the 160GB to the 300GB. Then I want to repartition the 160GB to make it one single large partition and reformat. Then I want to transfer everything from the 300GB back onto the 160GB and reformat the 300GB. I want to keep OS and Apps on the 160GB and use the 300GB for mostly storage.

What's the best way to accomplish this? I got ahold of a copy of Norton Ghost, but it only wants to back stuff up as images. I want to just copy everything so that the second drive is bootable once everything is copied. So I don't think I can use Norton. I thought of simply copying and pasting the entire 160GB drive and pasting it on the 300GB and pasting back, but I had a feeling this was too simple to work.

Any help would be great, thanks.

Sure you can. See my post here:

http://forums.anandtech.com/messageview...atid=27&threadid=1812570&enterthread=y

The clone feature is in the advanced menu. Piece of cake

 

[ElFenix]

Originally posted by: Jiggz
Partition Commander or Partition Magic will make your wish come true in less than half the time and effort. With partition magic or partition commander, you can add or delete a partition without losing data. In your case, what you need to do is to delete the second partition of 22GB by merging it to the existing 127GB and you're done. But if you do not have this you can use Max Blast and also you need to look deeper in Ghost because it does have an option to copy an entire disk or a logical drive.

doh, forgot about that one