Disk imaging

[jpk]

I need to transfer my programs from one HD to another. Any freeware pgm's out there that I can do this with? I have Casper but it creates two partitions on the target drive after the transfer. I want to keep the drive with only one partition. Thanks.

 

[Blain]

Here's some General Hardware that will do the job for you :laugh:

 

[jpk]

Well, I was actually looking to only spend around $1200.00. That's how they get you, $100 bucks for a hard drive $2k to put stuff on it.

 

[Mrvile]

jpk I don't know much about transfering data across HDDs but can't you just delete the blank partition after getting all your programs settled?

 

[jpk]

No. Since the primary partition that has been created by the software is of a certain size, in order to change the size you are creating a new partition and thusly destroying the x-xered data. I'm
x-fing about 30gb's of data on a 40gb drive to a new 160gb drive. After the transfer according to Win XP, I have a 30gb hd. It really hasn't created two partitions, only one with the rest of the drive unpartitoned. I could just buy the prog that allows resizing but a 2mb pgm that is half the cost of an operating system....I'll just go the reload route.

 

[Terumo]

It might be pricey, but at eBay at one time, I saw someone liquidating his shop's drive copiers from like $110. Nice device to do whole byte to byte drive image copies (or erases) quickly. They were 2 and 4 drive machines.

Just a heads up if anyone's interested in a faster route to do that chore.

 

[Auric]

Get the free utils from the target drive's manufacturer. Most of them offer Ontrack schtuff for copying.

 

[stevty2889]

Yeah, the hard drive manufactures utilities will allow you to copy one drive over to the other, and also partition magic will work. Do you plan on transfering the files over and then using the drive you copied to as you main drive?

 

[dunkster]

I've used the free utilities offered by both Maxtor and WD to successfully transfer the contents of multi-partitioned HDs to new drives.

It's been a while, but at least one of those utilites allowed the freedom to adjust the size of the partitions on the destination drive.

Hope this helps!

 

[jpk]

Thanks.....I didn't even think about MaxBlast. I got a cd with the drive and you're right, it should have that on the disk. I just want to retire my 40gb drive and install the 160. All my other IDE channels are occupied so I'll only have the one HD.

 

[jpk]

Thanks guys....appreciate the heads up on the HD software. Worked great. Haven't used maxblast in years so just didn't think of it.