Copying hard drive information question

[gplracer]

I loaned a hard drive to a friend that is using windows 2000. Their hard drive is being replaced. Is there a way to copy everything on the current hard drive to the other one when i comes in? I know it can be done I am just not sure how to do it. That would keep me from having to reinstall everything. I thought about putting both drives and and doing copy *.* from dos. What would be the way to do it? She is using NTFS. Thanks!!!

 

[Dhawk]

I have done this several times on my Maxtor drives with a utility that comes on Maxtor's "Max Blast" software. It should come with any of their retail drives. I would guess that most other harddrive brands would have similiar utilities.

You could also use Norton Ghost or Drive Image.

 

[gplracer]

I have a copy of ghost that came with the motherboard. Does it work with NTFS?

 

[Zim Hosein]

gpplracer, you can d/w the s/w that Dhawk posted about at http://www.maxtor.com When you reach the main page, click on PRODUCT SUPPORT - then SOFTWARE AND UTILITIES - then MAXBLAST PLUS II. Hope this helps.

 

[4824guy]

If there is a WD HD anywhere in that system you can also download and use the WD Data Lifeguard tools software that will do that. Drive Image also can do that but it is not free.

 

[Paulson]

<< I have a copy of ghost that came with the motherboard. Does it work with NTFS? >>



I just did this, yes ghost works with NTFS. But what version of ghost is it?

 

[mschell]

There can be a problem when copying drives in W2K and XP. These OS's give fixed drives a hidden identification number based on their drive letter. An example is copying the source drive C: to the backup drive D:. When the backup drive D: is used in place of C: an error results because the system expects D: to be D: not C:. I think the latest versions of Ghost and Drive Image address the problem by rewriting the identifier.