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best cloning method?
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"Rod Speed" wrote in message ... alanm wrote Rod Speed wrote alanm wrote Rod Speed wrote Anna wrote Timothy Daniels wrote asled Is there a nice simple DOS program that I can run that will format the new drive, copy the old to the new, and make the new drive bootable? Yes! And it's free for 30 days. It's called Casper XP. www.FSSdev.com/products/casperxp. I've used half a dozen other cloning utilities, and for cloning (as opposed to image files and incrmental backups) it's the best and the easiest to use. It will copy the MBR to the new drive, it will mark the new paritition "active" (if only one partition is being cloned), and the new partition will be as bootable as the one cloned. Casper can be made to clone in either of 2 modes - the entirety of one HD can be cloned to the entirety of another HD, or just one partition can be cloned to another HD which may or may not already have other partitions on it. (True Image cannot do the latter.) As with all cloning, disconnect the old drive before starting up the clone OS for the first time. The clone may be *seen* by the old OS before the clone is first started up, but the clone must not see the old OS until after it has undergone its first startup. Thereafter, at subsequent startups, the clone may see its "parent" OS without problems. Sorry, Casper XP does not run under DOS, but that matters not a whit - it will copy everything while running under WinXP, including the wretched Symantec anti-virus software with all its settings and its subscription life span. Just disconnect the PC from the internet and disable the AV off before cloning to be sure. wrote Thanks for the reply. I'm trying True Image right now, but don't know how to make a bootable CD with the utilites in linux. I saw a part of the program for making bootable recovery cd/dvd's but I'm sure that's different. Can you point me in the right direction? Steve: We're talking *direct* disk-to-disk cloning here, right? In addition to Tim's recommendation re the Casper XP program, let me offer the following... If you're primarily interested in using a disk cloning program with either a bootable floppy disk or bootable CD as the media to carry out the cloning operation, you may be interested in Symantec's Norton Ghost 2003 program. True Image makes a lot more sense. Ghost 2003 is way past its useby date now. Bull****. Fact. Its lan support is completey ****ed, it cant do incremental images, its user interface is quite ****ed, its hopeless for simpler users if the image creation goes bad for even the simplest reason, etc etc etc. Lan support isn't necessary with mobile racks. Incremental images are irrelevant to cloning. And anyone with a clue gets an app that can do more than just cloning with mobile racks. Nonsense. The user interface is simple. Its quite ****ed. So are you. The image creation doesn't fail. Wrong, as always. Perhaps it only fails for IDIOTS. Any 2 year old could do better than that pathetic effort, child. |
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best cloning method?
"Rod Speed" wrote in message ... alanm wrote: "Rod Speed" wrote in message ... alanm wrote Rod Speed wrote alanm wrote Rod Speed wrote Anna wrote Timothy Daniels wrote asled Is there a nice simple DOS program that I can run that will format the new drive, copy the old to the new, and make the new drive bootable? Yes! And it's free for 30 days. It's called Casper XP. www.FSSdev.com/products/casperxp. I've used half a dozen other cloning utilities, and for cloning (as opposed to image files and incrmental backups) it's the best and the easiest to use. It will copy the MBR to the new drive, it will mark the new paritition "active" (if only one partition is being cloned), and the new partition will be as bootable as the one cloned. Casper can be made to clone in either of 2 modes - the entirety of one HD can be cloned to the entirety of another HD, or just one partition can be cloned to another HD which may or may not already have other partitions on it. (True Image cannot do the latter.) As with all cloning, disconnect the old drive before starting up the clone OS for the first time. The clone may be *seen* by the old OS before the clone is first started up, but the clone must not see the old OS until after it has undergone its first startup. Thereafter, at subsequent startups, the clone may see its "parent" OS without problems. Sorry, Casper XP does not run under DOS, but that matters not a whit - it will copy everything while running under WinXP, including the wretched Symantec anti-virus software with all its settings and its subscription life span. Just disconnect the PC from the internet and disable the AV off before cloning to be sure. wrote Thanks for the reply. I'm trying True Image right now, but don't know how to make a bootable CD with the utilites in linux. I saw a part of the program for making bootable recovery cd/dvd's but I'm sure that's different. Can you point me in the right direction? Steve: We're talking *direct* disk-to-disk cloning here, right? In addition to Tim's recommendation re the Casper XP program, let me offer the following... If you're primarily interested in using a disk cloning program with either a bootable floppy disk or bootable CD as the media to carry out the cloning operation, you may be interested in Symantec's Norton Ghost 2003 program. True Image makes a lot more sense. Ghost 2003 is way past its useby date now. Bull****. Fact. Its lan support is completey ****ed, it cant do incremental images, its user interface is quite ****ed, its hopeless for simpler users if the image creation goes bad for even the simplest reason, etc etc etc. Lan support isn't necessary with mobile racks. Incremental images are irrelevant to cloning. And anyone with a clue gets an app that can do more than just cloning with mobile racks. Nonsense. The user interface is simple. Its quite ****ed. So are you. The image creation doesn't fail. Wrong, as always. Perhaps it only fails for IDIOTS. Any 2 year old could do better than that pathetic effort, child. IOW you have nothing to say. Excellent ! |
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best cloning method?
alanm wrote
Rod Speed wrote alanm wrote Rod Speed wrote alanm wrote Rod Speed wrote alanm wrote Rod Speed wrote Anna wrote Timothy Daniels wrote asled Is there a nice simple DOS program that I can run that will format the new drive, copy the old to the new, and make the new drive bootable? Yes! And it's free for 30 days. It's called Casper XP. www.FSSdev.com/products/casperxp. I've used half a dozen other cloning utilities, and for cloning (as opposed to image files and incrmental backups) it's the best and the easiest to use. It will copy the MBR to the new drive, it will mark the new paritition "active" (if only one partition is being cloned), and the new partition will be as bootable as the one cloned. Casper can be made to clone in either of 2 modes - the entirety of one HD can be cloned to the entirety of another HD, or just one partition can be cloned to another HD which may or may not already have other partitions on it. (True Image cannot do the latter.) As with all cloning, disconnect the old drive before starting up the clone OS for the first time. The clone may be *seen* by the old OS before the clone is first started up, but the clone must not see the old OS until after it has undergone its first startup. Thereafter, at subsequent startups, the clone may see its "parent" OS without problems. Sorry, Casper XP does not run under DOS, but that matters not a whit - it will copy everything while running under WinXP, including the wretched Symantec anti-virus software with all its settings and its subscription life span. Just disconnect the PC from the internet and disable the AV off before cloning to be sure. wrote Thanks for the reply. I'm trying True Image right now, but don't know how to make a bootable CD with the utilites in linux. I saw a part of the program for making bootable recovery cd/dvd's but I'm sure that's different. Can you point me in the right direction? Steve: We're talking *direct* disk-to-disk cloning here, right? In addition to Tim's recommendation re the Casper XP program, let me offer the following... If you're primarily interested in using a disk cloning program with either a bootable floppy disk or bootable CD as the media to carry out the cloning operation, you may be interested in Symantec's Norton Ghost 2003 program. True Image makes a lot more sense. Ghost 2003 is way past its useby date now. Bull****. Fact. Its lan support is completey ****ed, it cant do incremental images, its user interface is quite ****ed, its hopeless for simpler users if the image creation goes bad for even the simplest reason, etc etc etc. Lan support isn't necessary with mobile racks. Incremental images are irrelevant to cloning. And anyone with a clue gets an app that can do more than just cloning with mobile racks. Nonsense. The user interface is simple. Its quite ****ed. So are you. The image creation doesn't fail. Wrong, as always. Perhaps it only fails for IDIOTS. Any 2 year old could do better than that pathetic effort, child. IOW you have nothing to say. Excellent ! Any 2 year old could do better than that pathetic effort, child. |
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