What software is good for Hardrive data duplication? (copying data from a dying drive to a new RMA'ed drive)

[ShyGuy91284]

I'll soon be getting a new hardrive in the mail to replace my dying one (Western Digital 80 GB, non-special edition). What would be the best program to use to transfer the data from one drive to another? I'm thinking some sort of program that will fit on a floppy or CD that I can boot that way. I thought about using the MandrakeMove CD based linux distro, but I'm not a linux guru, so I'm not sure how this will go over. Any ideas?

 

[DannyBoy]

Norton Ghost.

If you dont want to pay for it though you can boot from a floppy to a dos prompt and use diskcopy.

Put old drive in, and new one in at same time.

For example sake drive c is old drive d is new.

Type "Diskcopy c: d:"

If you want for variable commands type "diskcopy /?"

Hope that helps 🙂

 

[morkinva]

Don't new drives usually come with software that will help you do just what you're asking? Like 'maxblast' or whatever WD calls their crap

 

[Zepper]

Yes, you can download software from the WD site that will set up drives and do those trasfers just fine. Best of all the cost is only $0.00...
.bh.

 

[ShyGuy91284]

Thanx. I checked it myself a lil while after someone suggested they might have software to do it. I wasn't sure, because when I got the drive, the partition copy feature wasn't part of the program yet.

 

[ScrapSilicon]

Originally posted by: Zepper
Yes, you can download software from the WD site that will set up drives and do those trasfers just fine. Best of all the cost is only $0.00...
.bh.

best way to go..WD..grab WD's latest from their site, Maxtor use Maxtor's, etc. ...Samsung sucks..have to register to get a self-executable(extracts to make a floppy ) that has never really worked for me. 🙁