How do I copy everything from one drive to another?

[mikysee]

I want to copy everything on my c: drive to g: drive but coping and pasteing doesn't work because windows is using some of the files. I got Norton Ghost but I have no idea how to use it. Is there another program that can do this? Thanks for any help.

 

[FOBSIDE]

norton ghost is pretty easy to use. if you have questions go to norton's site. theres also power quest's drive image pro which is similar to norton ghost if you wanna try that.

 

[overmars]

Another program is Imagecast IC3. It's free, so it might be worth the d/l.
IC3 Demo

It's a similar program to drive image.

 

[corkyg]

Even easier that Ghost or Image Pro is PowerQuest's Drive Copy 3.0. Also a lot cheaper.

It makes a bootable set of two floppies, or you can have it on a bootable CD. It is a DOS program that totally copies every thing from one drive to another . . . 1 to 2 or 2 to 1, and it does it fast and is ready to go when finished. Example . . . cloning a 30 GB drive with 6 partitions to another 30 GB drive takes all of 15 minutes total.

When you are done, the drive is an exact clone . . . even to the point of preserving optimizations. All for $26 or so . . . you can't beat it.

It has a lot of other features . . . you can hide and unhide either the source or target and also do a single partition.

The beauty of it is that there is no restoration of any kind to deal with.

I use it to clone my main drive every week, so I always have a drive in reserve I can change to in about 1 minute. That is made possible by using mobile racks . . . and each drive can be turned on and off with a key switch.