Copying contents from one hard drive to another one

[jyates]

Hi all,

I used to have a piece of paper that showed how you could
copy the entire contents of a master hard drive to a slave
hard drive in windows. It was something like booting into
safe mode (win98se) and running an xcopy command with a whole
string of /'s and characters to make the whole deal copy from C: to D:

Seems like it was an article I printed from a forum like ZDnet or something.

Anyone know where to find this ?

I know and have read about the utilities but I hope to be able to do it without
installing a utility.


Thanks,
Jim

 

[BlindSight]

XCOPY is a bad method for cloning a HD. I'd recommend a specialized disc cloner to do the chore.

Here is why XCOPY is a bad way to clone a disc. PCGuide - Articles - Xcopy Xposed

There are several free disc cloning utilities out there. Try Download.com to find what you need.

EDIT: Just glancing over the article there seems to be a similar command line tool called XXCopy. This may do the trick without installing any software.

 

[tennesota]

Originally posted by: Smoke
XCOPY is a bad method for cloning a HD. I'd recommend a specialized disc cloner to do the chore.

Here is why XCOPY is a bad way to clone a disc. PCGuide - Articles - Xcopy Xposed

There are several free disc cloning utilities out there. Try Download.com to find what you need.

EDIT: Just glancing over the article there seems to be a similar command line tool called XXCopy. This may do the trick without installing any software.

Thanks for the post; this looks like a program worth checking out.

 

[jyates]

I downloaded it and am going to try it too!

Thanks!

Jim