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Image XP boot drive without additional software?

elkinm

Platinum Member
I want to image my boot drive to another drives partition.

I recently found a website that gave a way to do this using Win XP built in features and nothing internal. As well as other nice tweaks and features.

Anybody know how I can do this or what is the website I am looking for?

Thanks
 
Originally posted by: jtusa
I guess it'd work, but that'd take awhile using xcopy.

Is Xcopy really that slow? Also, since it copies to a blanc source. Does it defragment most of the files or does it copy randomly.

Is there any good free alternative. I have Ghost 2003, but it does not clone everything.
 
I've done it a couple times...
I use
xcopy /h/i/c/k/e/r/y

hickery is easy to remember. 🙂

Ghost should get everything though.

Just remember if you're going to try to boot to it on another partition you will probably have to play around with boot.ini.
 
Originally posted by: nova2
try these free solutions:
http://www.mondorescue.org/about.shtml

http://www.partimage.org/Main_Page

you say 'without additional software', but whatever, these are free.

Thanks, but I beat you to it. I already did the clone with Xcopy. It went quite well and it took about 2 hours which I think is not bad for 200 GB and it did defrayment most of the files on the drive, folder fragmentation was the bigger issue.

Next time I will try your suggestions.
 
Thanks, but I beat you to it. I already did the clone with Xcopy. It went quite well and it took about 2 hours which I think is not bad for 200 GB and it did defrayment most of the files on the drive, folder fragmentation was the bigger issue.

Next time I will try your suggestions.
I was wondering once you clone the hdd with xcopy to another hdd will all i need to do is just switch hdd if the hdd i cloned fails or would i have to do some other steps?

 
I wonder how does Xcopy handle the swap files. I am guessing it either skips it or stops when it encounters it. I have heard that xcopy will also coppy corrupt or bad data that may cause problems later on.

I suppose the best way to fund out is to make a copy using it and switch hds to see if it actually works.
 
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