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February 8th, 2002, 12:32 AM
#1
 Best way to copy hard drive??
I was wondering what you guys thought was the best way to copy the entire contents of a new hard drive to a new hard drive? Please give some help. Thanks. P.S. I am going from a 2 gig with windows 98SE to a 20 gig.
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February 8th, 2002, 01:55 AM
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IMHO Norton ghost can't be beat. I've used it thousands of times without incident. The good news is that what you are doing will work on just about any version of ghost(read free). If you can't find the evaluation version of Ghost 6, pm me and I will mail it to you with instructions. BTW, its about 600k. 
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February 8th, 2002, 05:42 AM
#3
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Yep, Norton Ghost gets my vote too.
The option you need to choose is Local, Disk, To Disk.
Forget all about xcopy and similar DOS utilities.
Norton Ghost may be a DOS utility but it rocks!
Good luck!
The wandering Odysseus of the web.
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February 8th, 2002, 07:09 AM
#4
Norton Ghost again. If you check around on the internet via pricewatch or online auctions you can pick up a copy very cheap. I got my personal copies which I use for my 9x machines for $10 as part of system works 2000. I'm looking into ghost 2002 since I'm up to XP now. If you learn to get comfortable with the ghost command prompt, you can do pretty much everything with the personal editions.
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February 8th, 2002, 07:30 AM
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One more for norton Ghost. Love that program.
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February 8th, 2002, 12:29 PM
#6
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Jesus Saves.
Gretzky recovers... He shoots... HE SCORES!!!
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February 8th, 2002, 12:34 PM
#7
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2. PowerQuest Drive Image
...and the No 1 hard disk copy utility is...
1. Symantec/Norton Ghost
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February 8th, 2002, 01:06 PM
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Also a Ghost advocate. Excellent program for cloning hard drives. One thing to watch out for, though. You mentioned you have a 2 gig hard drive and are upgrading to a 20 gig. Make sure the 2 gig is FAT32 and not FAT16. Ghost will do the clone, but you will have another 2 gig FAT16 cloned partition on the new drive. The rest will be unused space till you repartition it and then you've opened up another can O' worms. Then it's xcopy or some other way to clone the drive. Ghost don't do FAT16 to FAT32 conversions.
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February 8th, 2002, 01:10 PM
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can't beat ghost. especially the multicast and ntfs support.
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February 8th, 2002, 02:19 PM
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[quote]Originally posted by Damned Angel:
<strong>can't beat ghost. especially the multicast and ntfs support.</strong><hr></blockquote>
How well does the multicast work. How many machines are you able to clone at once?
I am currently using an older version of ImageCast and am looking to upgrade. Not sure if I should stick with imagecast of move on to something different.
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February 8th, 2002, 02:33 PM
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XCOPY!
Nah, I'm another Ghost user. Best investment I ever made.
A bored admin is a very dangerous person...
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February 8th, 2002, 03:32 PM
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[quote]Originally posted by gpint:
<strong>
How well does the multicast work. How many machines are you able to clone at once?
I am currently using an older version of ImageCast and am looking to upgrade. Not sure if I should stick with imagecast of move on to something different.</strong><hr></blockquote>
as far as I'm aware, its unlimited. I can't find anything that says the max number of workstations that can connect to a multicast server on symantec's site.
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February 10th, 2002, 01:48 AM
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Ghost or Drive Image are both doing the job.
Don't forget to put the HDD's on a Different Bus.
E.g. - One Hdd on IDE0 the other on IDE1 (It will work Faster, MUCH FASTER!).
Good Luck
Gabriel
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February 10th, 2002, 04:52 AM
#14
There's always the old fashioned way!
If you have both drives out of systems and have a computer with an existing OS that you can plug them into, then just fdisk, format the new drive, and copy everything over to the new drive.
After you install the new drive into it's new home, run fdisk and make the primary partition active. Voila!!!!
On the other hand if this is something you do often, then you may want to invest in some software. If it's a once in a while thing, save the $$$$.
"And that's all I'm gonna say 'bout that" - Forrest Gump
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February 10th, 2002, 05:24 AM
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[quote]Originally posted by Denis P:
<strong>There's always the old fashioned way!
If you have both drives out of systems and have a computer with an existing OS that you can plug them into, then just fdisk, format the new drive, and copy everything over to the new drive.
After you install the new drive into it's new home, run fdisk and make the primary partition active. Voila!!!!
On the other hand if this is something you do often, then you may want to invest in some software. If it's a once in a while thing, save the $$$$.
"And that's all I'm gonna say 'bout that" - Forrest Gump</strong><hr></blockquote>
Generally I've had great success with this method, but NTFS and FAT32 WinNT based systems need a repair after this kind of copy unfortunately, so the Nortons Ghost comes back into play for general backup.
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