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copying entire hard drives?

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ChinamanatNCSU

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I had to RMA a 40 gig hd, and so I swapped it with a 27 giger until it came back. Is there any way I could make an exact copy of all the contents of the 27 gig drive onto the 40? In other words, could I duplicate the 27 gig drive on the 40 and just interchange them? I wouldn't like to reinstall everything and customize everything all over again...thanks!
 
What brand hard drive is it? I know that both Maxtor and Western Digital have utilities that allow you to do this. If not, you can use Norton Ghost to do it.
 
ditto on the ghost, I have downloaded maxblast from maxtor and it works ok from what I heard, but ghost rules!!! I have only had one guy hdd that I could not ghost. It had a lot of porn on it and I told him it was too dirty😉
 
Um if you have two Maxtor HDDs why not use the free MaxBlast software rather than buying Norton Ghost or PowerQuest Drive Image? 😉
 
Try DriveImage instead of Ghost. Ghost will copy drive to drive like you want but if you have two drives you may end up wanting to use Ghost for making backups. Ghost cannot write an image to NTFS. DriveImage can. You may not be using NTFS or the backup feature now but if you have to buy, why not get the one that is fully functional.

I'm angry that I just bought another copy of Ghost because it says fully compatible on the box and then I found out that it is not. So now I'm telling everybody about it. LOL
 
k I will try maxblast first before purchasing the others 🙂.

However, I have another question- I have my current drive partitionedwith a 5 and a 22, so if I wanted to copy it to the new drive, would I have to partition it the same way? Or can I have 2 20 gig partitions and choose which directories go to which partition?

<--- never used maxblast before so very newbish
 
Usually you can copy partitions to other different sized ones as long as there is room, but you can't merge them.
 
The easiest and fastest way is not to ghost or image it - but to simply do a direct drive to drive copy using Drive Copy 4.0. It handles all formats, and mixes and partitions. You end up with an exact clone. 40 GB shopuld be between 20 and 30 minutes total. PowerQuest DC 4.0 - why make it more complicated or more expensive than it needs to be?

I do it every week on three systems. Each has two good drives - then only one is used. The other is an instant backup always ready to go - no restoration needed.
 
DriveCopy 4 does get it done, but if you are using XP, you'll need DriveCopy 5. 4 cannot be updated to handle XP.
 
As far as I know DC 4 is the newest and I know for a fact it handles XP just fine. I use it regularly. Are you sure you are not thinking of Drive Image 5.X? Same maker - but a more expensive imaging program.
 
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