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Copy one hard drive to another?? ????? ?????????

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Vette73

Lifer
OK I am trying to move (Copy) all my files from my 40gig Maxtor to my 80gig. I formated the 80 gig and then used the NEWWEST max blast. Everything seemed to do what it has done in thepast but when I put the new drive in it comes up with errors and windows XP Pro will not load.

Both drives are in NTFS format. I have done this before with ut a problem, mind you the drives were a little smaller and it was Win 98 in FAT32 format.

So how can I copy one harddrive to another without losing any data.

Thanks
 
I thought your MaxBlast CD had a utility for that. Most here would advice you to "ghost" the program using Norton Ghost or PowerQuest Drive Image 2002. But - those are expensive solutions if you don't have them. I do this every week on two computers - clone a paid of HDDs so I always have a "reserve" drive.

I use PowerQuest's DriveCopy 4.0. It will create a pair of diskettes for you, and you boot the system with them and both drives connected. It will make an exact copy of one drive to the other. There are advanced buttons that you check to prevent the cloned drive from being "hidden."

Regardless of what method you use, I strongly advice running a complete optimization of the old drive first. That way the new drive will emerge "optimized." Also, I would run Norton WindDoctor and XP's ChkDsk on the source drive before cloning. You don't need errors passed on to the new drive. 🙂

DC 4 handles FAT, FAT32, and NTFS, and mixes of them all with no problem. Since the operation does not involve the OS, there are no file sharing errors to get in the way. And, you need not restore an image - it is ready to go when finished. You don't even need to run FDISK or format - it does all that in the process. Should take about 25-30 minutes for your 40 to 80 drive.
 
Yea I used the MaxBlast and it looked like it did the job, but I get some errors and then a blue screen like it is about to start but gos no where?
 
Like I said - you may have some work to do to clean up the errors on the source drive BEFORE you try and copy it. Do you have Norton System Works 2002 with WinDoctor?
 
Comrade corky-g,

Greetings from the socialist motherland!

Not to dispute the broad outlines of what you recommend here - I use Ghost and SystemWorks myself - but I would question your statement that an optimized source drive results in an optimized clone. That is not my experience; the clone has in every instance required optimization via Speed Disk.

Perhaps these differences can be accounted for by capitalist wreckers and saboteurs. We must be constantly vigilant, comrade.

LavrentiBeria
 
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