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Stupid question but if anyone knows if I can clone a HD this way

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Tsaico

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If I were to take the drive that I want to clone and make is a master on IDE channel 1 and the drive that I am copying to a slave on channel 0, can I just open them up in explorer and copy all to the empty drive and make a duplicate this way?

Backgroud story, I have some win 95 drives that need to be cloned, but cloning devices are too expensive and installing Ghost won't work because of their of OS, not to mention, I need to clone a few drives and would rather not buy licenses for this...
 
It won't work. Not from within Windows

Some people used to use the xcopy command in DOS to duplicate a drive but I have no personal experience with it to tell you whether it will, or will not work.

However, the drive manufacturer should have some free software available at their website that will do what you want. Nothing to lose by trying. If it doesn't work, all it cost you was time.
 
As boomerang said, it won't work.

All retail drives come with a drive copy program. There's also Norton Ghost (my preference). There's also a couple of free ones out there. Do a Google search.
 
I think I will go with the xcopy command, the other stuff requires either windows 98se, or costs more than I care to spend on this.

My next question, can I do the xcopy command from a windows 95 fat16 disk to a fat16 drive in a windows 2k envrionment?
 
The hard drive manufacturers provide a diagnostic utility that often includes a drive copy utility.
These are provided free.
What brand(s) are the hard drives?
 
the main one is a fujitsu, but their utility won't will only allow me to copy to a drive of identical size, which is 12 GB. But in any case, I think I will be using xxcopy, looks like it is exactly what I am looking for, and it is cheap.
 
Acronis is excellent - but it is about $49.99. There is also a new kid on the block - Casper XP 3.0 (Casper the friendly ghost?). It is about the same price - $49.95.

Casper
 
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