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I would like to "clone" my hdd.

Heller

Heller

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whats the bestprogram out there... Norton ghost??


what do you do, back it up on dvd's?

"sorry for what might be a nubby post."
 
Originally posted by: Kniteman77
Norton Ghost works quite well, I've used it many a time.

I'd just say grab an external HDD and do it to that.
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so say my hdd just "crashed" one day, what would i do, just plug in the external and copy from drive "d" to drive "c"?
 
Use norton Ghost or Acronis True Image...

Usually, you can make a bootable CD, or USB drive that you can boot with and select the image to be used.
 
You are also allowed to make 1 backup image once you have Vista the way you want it. Nero 7.5 will work well for this ,and works with Vista.There's a free 30 day eval over at nero.
 
ghost and true image is good backup progs, of course if you need to create backup images(everyone should do it🙂). If you need just tot clone the old drive to the new one, then take a look at migrate easy, it has 15 day full working trial copy.
 
Cloning and backup imaging are slightly different operations. Ghost or TrueImage can do cloning - which creates an exact duplicate of the source drive, and is immediately bootable with no restoration.

I do this weekly on three systems - each has a "reserve" drive that gets cloned. I then switch the drives and use the newly cloned drive. That way I know for sure, I have a good reserve drive ready to go - and a side benefit is that the drives get a week off that way. 🙂

For cloning, TrueImage 10 is a bit better than Ghost, but either will do the job.
 
If I were to clone vista and copy it to a new SATA 2 Hard drive would that new drive boot up? hmm....I am doing dual boot now XP on one drive and Vista on another. I installed Vista after XP so I think the boot file it needs to look for is on the XP drive. So I think I need to leave the xp drive connected. Also, can you use 2 eide drives and a SATA 2 all at once? Thats what I need to do to copy vista over to the new SATA...then I can remove old one? Sounds confusing.
 
Since you guys are on this topic, can I do the same with a dual boot Linux/XP system hd?

I'm planning my first build and need to figure out a proper backup plan. I will be running *nux 64bit and XP 32bit. (By the end of the year I plan to migrate to Vista 64bit.)
 
Originally posted by: Jose R
Since you guys are on this topic, can I do the same with a dual boot Linux/XP system hd?
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When you use TrueImage's cloning function from it's self-created bootable CD, it really doesn't matter what OS is on the HDD to be cloned. As a matter of interest, the GUI provided by Acronis on the bootable CD is Linux based.

 
Originally posted by: Kniteman77
Norton Ghost works quite well, I've used it many a time.

I'd just say grab an external HDD and do it to that.
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You'll need a version from SystemWorks 2003 or later to support USB or Firewire.
Originally posted by: Heller
so say my hdd just "crashed" one day, what would i do, just plug in the external and copy from drive "d" to drive "c"?
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That won't work as a boot drive because it won't copy all the hidden and system files to the target drive. You need a true cloning prog like Ghost or Acronis.
 
Originally posted by: TJones2
The free XXClone works well for me. http://www.xxclone.com/
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Good find ! Just what I have been looking for .. ( if it works as described )

Thanks for the tip ...

It looks like it will let you migrate to a larger volume also ..

I just recently experimented with a new Norton product called " Save & Restore, but it was the worst piece of bloatware I have encountered in my life..
 
Drive Image XML - Free and decent!!!

I've used Ghost, TrueImage, DriveImage XML all of them work and have its ups and downs. Good thing is you can try most of them out and decide what best suits your needs.

Now, new problem. I have SATA DVD drive. None of CD boot images created by either GHOST or TrueImage work. It seems like those CD iamges only support IDE CD ROMS but not SATA ones.
Anyone has any clue how to solve this???
 
Originally posted by: bigi
Now, new problem. I have SATA DVD drive. None of CD boot images created by either GHOST or TrueImage work. It seems like those CD iamges only support IDE CD ROMS but not SATA ones.
Anyone has any clue how to solve this???
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Ghost works with SATA. I've used it to clone a friend's drive any number of times. I don't recall if I tried to restore a SATA drive from a PATA source drive.
 
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