Cloning a Drive

Are there some low-cost/free options for copying all the data (including
system files) from one hard disk to another? I'm building a A7N8X system
and my SATA drive went kaput and is being RMA'd. So I rebuilt the system on
a small IDE drive, but rather than install everything from scratch when I
get the new SATA drive back, I'd prefer just to clone everything from the
IDE drive over to the SATA drive. I've heard of Ghost, but I don't want to
spend $70 for something I'll use once.

Thanks,

- Mark

"markjen" wrote:

Are there some low-cost/free options for copying all the data (including
system files) from one hard disk to another? I'm building a A7N8X system
and my SATA drive went kaput and is being RMA'd. So I rebuilt the system on
a small IDE drive, but rather than install everything from scratch when I
get the new SATA drive back, I'd prefer just to clone everything from the
IDE drive over to the SATA drive. I've heard of Ghost, but I don't want to
spend $70 for something I'll use once.

Get the shareware version. ;-)

Ed Jay (No M to reply)

Check out XXCOPY at www.xxcopy.com
It will copy everything from one drive to another including XP system files.
Threre's a free version that will do what you want.

JT

"Ed Jay" wrote in message
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"markjen" wrote:

Are there some low-cost/free options for copying all the data (including
system files) from one hard disk to another? I'm building a A7N8X system
and my SATA drive went kaput and is being RMA'd. So I rebuilt the system
on
a small IDE drive, but rather than install everything from scratch when I
get the new SATA drive back, I'd prefer just to clone everything from the
IDE drive over to the SATA drive. I've heard of Ghost, but I don't want
to
spend $70 for something I'll use once.

Get the shareware version. ;-)

Ed Jay (No M to reply)

It didn't used to clone XP installations?????????

"John Tindle" wrote in message
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Check out XXCOPY at www.xxcopy.com
It will copy everything from one drive to another including XP system
files.
Threre's a free version that will do what you want.

JT

"Ed Jay" wrote in message
news
"markjen" wrote:

Are there some low-cost/free options for copying all the data
(including
system files) from one hard disk to another? I'm building a A7N8X
system
and my SATA drive went kaput and is being RMA'd. So I rebuilt the
system
on
a small IDE drive, but rather than install everything from scratch when
I
get the new SATA drive back, I'd prefer just to clone everything from
the
IDE drive over to the SATA drive. I've heard of Ghost, but I don't
want
to
spend $70 for something I'll use once.

Get the shareware version. ;-)

Ed Jay (No M to reply)

"BoB" wrote:

It didn't used to clone XP installations?????????

I does now. I did one yesterday. :-)

Ed

"John Tindle" wrote in message
. ..
Check out XXCOPY at www.xxcopy.com
It will copy everything from one drive to another including XP system
files.
Threre's a free version that will do what you want.

JT

"Ed Jay" wrote in message
news
"markjen" wrote:

Are there some low-cost/free options for copying all the data
(including
system files) from one hard disk to another? I'm building a A7N8X
system
and my SATA drive went kaput and is being RMA'd. So I rebuilt the
system
on
a small IDE drive, but rather than install everything from scratch when
I
get the new SATA drive back, I'd prefer just to clone everything from
the
IDE drive over to the SATA drive. I've heard of Ghost, but I don't
want
to
spend $70 for something I'll use once.

Get the shareware version. ;-)

Ed Jay (No M to reply)

Check out XXCOPY at www.xxcopy.com
It will copy everything from one drive to another including XP system
files.
Threre's a free version that will do what you want.

Yep, looks good, thanks for the tip.

- Mark

Please elaborate, last year he didn't intend to
integrate volume shadow copy to create bootable cloning of nt
partitions. When I visited his site today I found no mention of it,
just for win9x.

"Ed Jay" wrote in message
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"BoB" wrote:

It didn't used to clone XP installations?????????

I does now. I did one yesterday. :-)

Ed

"John Tindle" wrote in message
. ..
Check out XXCOPY at www.xxcopy.com
It will copy everything from one drive to another including XP system
files.
Threre's a free version that will do what you want.

JT

"Ed Jay" wrote in message
news "markjen" wrote:

Are there some low-cost/free options for copying all the data
(including
system files) from one hard disk to another? I'm building a A7N8X
system
and my SATA drive went kaput and is being RMA'd. So I rebuilt the
system
on
a small IDE drive, but rather than install everything from scratch
when
I
get the new SATA drive back, I'd prefer just to clone everything
from
the
IDE drive over to the SATA drive. I've heard of Ghost, but I don't
want
to
spend $70 for something I'll use once.

Get the shareware version. ;-)

Ed Jay (No M to reply)

XXcopy runs within the windows shell, of course Ghost uses DOS!
DOS is slow as molasses!

"Jens Baumann" wrote in message
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BoB wrote:

[Ghost Trialware]

Please elaborate, last year he didn't intend to
integrate volume shadow copy to create bootable cloning of nt
partitions. When I visited his site today I found no mention of it,
just for win9x.


http://service1.symantec.com/SUPPORT...sv=&o sv_lvl=

You do not need "volume shadow" or anything like that. Just create
bootable floppy disks.

"BoB" wrote in message
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DOS is slow as molasses!

But at least it works!!

"mrdancer" wrote in message
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"BoB" wrote in message
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DOS is slow as molasses!

But at least it works!!


I miss Novell DOS 7 ;(