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    What do you use for drive copying?

    There's a customer of mine who has a Win2K work system which, although containing a 20GB hard drive, was partitioned with a 4GB partition and the rest was never utilized. This resulted in their not being able to install their latest business program. So I used the XP CD to create a partition on the extra space for the time being and had to end up assigning it to letter G: so it didn't goof up some of their already existing network drive stuff. Anyway, someday, I would like to copy the drive contents off and redo the drive so it's one 20GB partition.

    What are you guys using to accomplish this these days? The last program I remember people using was Ghost.
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    Re: What do you use for drive copying?

    True image 10 (when I have to)
    but there was a freebie (probably a few)
    I think davemax mentioned it

    You could try a "non destructive repartition program"
    but id Have a working backup of the HDD just in case anything did go wrong regardless
    so you need to clone it anyway.

    If you got Ghost older version that can do it use that

    As for repartitioning SW I am not sure whats good at the moment.
    (I use to use partition magic but that had quarks I believe and been bought out or no longer available)

    I am not sure what the story would be on combining 2 partitions into one "non destructivly"

    I know there was size limitations with FAT 16 32 forgotten what thats all about now but is this possibly the reason it was only 4GB on a 20GB...possibly maybe just cloned at original size?

    Anyway just some input others will have a better ideas for you I am sure.
    (I dont do it very often)

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      #3
      Re: What do you use for drive copying?

      G4L (Ghost 4 Linux) for our Linux boxes here at the office. Its very effective with Ubuntu 6.06.1 LTS. :-) 25 machines all in all cloned using G4L.

      For windows boxes we were still using Norton Ghost (comes free with the driver CDs of most mobos) here in the office.
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        #4
        Re: What do you use for drive copying?

        Also try this utilities which come free from the Ultimate Boot CD (http://www.ultimatebootcd.com/)

        HDClone (Free Edition) http://www.miray.de/download/sat.hdclone.html

        CopyWipe http://www.terabyteunlimited.com/copywipe.php#download

        XXCOPY http://www.xxcopy.com/index.htm

        EaseUs Disk Copy http://www.easeus.com/disk-copy/index.htm

        G4U http://www.feyrer.de/g4u/#whatisit
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          #5
          Re: What do you use for drive copying?

          I use Boot It Next Generation. It is share ware, and it installs on a very small partition. You can then uninstall it after you are done.

          http://www.terabyteunlimited.com/

          It can copy a drive to a DVD, and since your drive is only 4GB it may be just what you need.

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            #6
            Re: What do you use for drive copying?

            I use the DOS version of Partition Magic 8.05. In fact, using it right now as this is typed. It is great for resizing existing partitions.

            *ALWAYS* do the PMagic error checking test on the drive before any other operations.

            Run the check as many times as necessary to get no failures. CHKDSK usually requires doing this twice. I always run CHKDSK before Ghosting a partition or disk.

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              #7
              Re: What do you use for drive copying?

              If you want to delete the second partition, your program will probably not working after the drive letter change.

              Partition Magic can correct this registry paths, but i would warn you, it is not always that clear, what you intend to do and what PM8 rally will do.
              And the drive mapper can certainly make a real mess within the registry....

              I would just leave the two partitions, and increase the size during the mirroring.
              Personally i have used ghost and Acronis, and both have done it w /o problem.
              The only issue is with SATA HDD`s in native AHCI mode; neither ghost nor Acronis will support that from a bootable environment.
              I haven found a program, which would allow that. So you have to switch to IDE mode in BIOS to make things work.

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                #8
                Re: What do you use for drive copying?

                Paragon Hard Disk Manager 8 SE.
                It was a freebie download courtesy of a German PC Mag.
                Might still be available.
                I don't think it works properly on WinXP MCE.

                Keep in mind, some old OSes and BIOS had HDD size limitations. Make sure you check that system's BIOS date.
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                  #9
                  Re: What do you use for drive copying?

                  I use media tools pro - very useful and can copy 20 gig harddrive in under 7 mins

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