What do I use to copy partitions from one 75GXP to another?

[Quickfingerz]

I want to use my 46.1 drive rather than my 30.7 gb drive.

But I can't seem to find a program to copy partitions. I know Maxtor and Western Digital have a utility to copy partitions, but what about IBM?

 

[billandopus]

PowerQuest Drive Image 4 will copy partitions as well as Norton Ghost et al.

 

[Quickfingerz]

Ok, I used this command line

xcopy c:\*.* d:\*.* /e /c /q /h /k

I dunno if it worked but it does it really fast

 

[mmnatas]

I will be doing something like this in a day or two (once my 45 gig 75GXP comes), and would like to know the best way to do this for a NTFS5 partition. This will be a one-time-only thing, so I don't want to have to buy anything. I have used xcopy before with decent results, but don't understand all the various switches.

xcopy and specific switches would be appreciated, or some other good free program.

 

[Cosmic_Horror]

go to Russ's website
click here

and look for a program called filecopy

it copies everything over.. great little program
(basically it uses the dos command (run it in windows to preserve long file names) listed above and thus is fast and easy to use

 

[Quickfingerz]

xcopy and filecopy did not work for me as there were about a hundred files that could not be copied

 

[highwire]

An outfit called HDTRONICS has a partition copy prog I tried recently.
Go to: http://212.223.28.218/e_info.htm
or just d/l @ http://212.223.28.218/zip/hdcopye.zip(or exe)

It is a DOS prog with a graphical interface and easy to use. For something you'll use once every 2 years or less it should be OK even though it is "bug-you-ware" if it is not registered $$$. It stops every minute or two while it does its thing and makes you hit returns.

I've tried XCOPY and even the super XCOPY - XXCOPY. So far I have not been able to make either one preserve the old folder dates. XXCOPY has a function 'clone' that will dup a partition but it changes the folder dates too.

Does anyone know how to get around the folder date thing with XCOPY or XXCOPY ?

 

[Quickfingerz]

Ok, Just download IBM's DriveGuide (it's actually EZDrive). I always thought DriveGuide(EZDrive a third party software) and Disk Manager Go! were both made by IBM. There is a partition copier and it works. I'm now using my IBM DTLA307045 drive.

 

[mmnatas]

Can you please explain the difference between the two IBM utilities? The IBM site doesn't give much info.

Thanks.

 

[Quickfingerz]

DriveGuide resembles EZDrive the hard drive utility found on Western Digital and Maxtor hard drives.

DiskManager Go! is created by IBM software developers it's more "fancy" but it lacks the very important feature of being able to copy partitions.

I don't know the specific differences but either way, Drive Guide is the program that you should use.

The bigger file of DiskManager Go! is very deceiving.

 

[mmnatas]

Ok, thanks.

 

[Pakman]

<< Ok, I used this command line >>



<< xcopy c:\*.* d:\*.* /e /c /q /h /k >>

Errr... I don't think u can use xcopy cause it won't copy long file names. Try xcopy32 instead. I haven't tried it personally, but I think it should work. Use xcopy32 /? for the syntax.