1. [offtopic] harddrive cloning
Calling all hackers!
Since microsoft has decided to not support win95 anymore, and since i have
put so much into making this install stable, i'd like to clone my boot drive. I
especially do not want to run anything newer than win98, and i don't have a
win98 install disc nor all the patches for win98. The last set of win95 patches
required a connection to MS online, and can't be installed locally, because
the patch exe isn't stored locally. Sooooooo, what is the best way to clone
the hd on this computer,, boot sector and *everything*, putting the data and
files in the same places on the new hd? I have the hd partitioned into 2gig
dos-compatable logical drives, and want to clone all of the primary drive, the
extended partitions don't matter, altho i'll have them on the new hd too .
When i outgrow win95, i'll goto Linux or OS2. Or back to dos.
Kat
2. Re: [offtopic] harddrive cloning
- Posted by munchr at mac.com
Sep 04, 2001
At 11:03 AM 9/4/2001 -0500, Kat wrote:
>the patch exe isn't stored locally. Sooooooo, what is the best way to clone
>the hd on this computer,, boot sector and *everything*, putting the data and
>files in the same places on the new hd? I have the hd partitioned into 2gig
>dos-compatable logical drives, and want to clone all of the primary drive,
>the
>extended partitions don't matter, altho i'll have them on the new hd too .
>When i outgrow win95, i'll goto Linux or OS2. Or back to dos.
>
>Kat
If you purchased a retail, boxed, Maxtor hard drive, it comes with a floppy
that
will boot you computer, partition the new HD with either FAT32 for win98, or
multiple FAT16 for win95, install MaxBlast for drive translation on systems
with
a 2 or 8 GB HD limit, and will clone an existing drive to the new one. Other
options would be Symantec Ghost, Drive Image, or Drive Copy. All three
should be available at a local software retailer.
I personally use Ghost at CompUSA for imaging training classrooms from
an NT Server, and cloning customer equipment. Maxtor's utility is ok, and
works
great as a fringe benefit of a retail drive, but is not available
seperately. Drive
Copy and Drive Image are both from Powerquest, and are popular with our retail
customers.
Drive Copy retails for $49.99 and will perform a disk to disk copy.
Drive Image retails for $69.99 and, in addition to disk to disk copies, is
able to
create an image file of your HD, for backup onto CD-R/W, Jaz, Zip etc.
Ghost performs the same functions as Drive Image, but adds in the capability to
backup linux ext2fs. Ghost is available for $69.95, or as a part of Norton
SystemWorks Professional for $99.99.
3. Re: [offtopic] harddrive cloning
On 4 Sep 2001, at 19:32, munchr at mac.com wrote:
>
> At 11:03 AM 9/4/2001 -0500, Kat wrote:
> >the patch exe isn't stored locally. Sooooooo, what is the best way to clone
> >the
> >hd on this computer,, boot sector and *everything*, putting the data and
> >files
> >in the same places on the new hd? I have the hd partitioned into 2gig
> >dos-compatable logical drives, and want to clone all of the primary drive,
> >the
> >extended partitions don't matter, altho i'll have them on the new hd too .
> >When
> >i outgrow win95, i'll goto Linux or OS2. Or back to dos.
> >
> >Kat
>
> If you purchased a retail, boxed, Maxtor hard drive, it comes with a floppy
> that
> will boot you computer, partition the new HD with either FAT32 for win98, or
> multiple FAT16 for win95, install MaxBlast for drive translation on systems
> with
> a 2 or 8 GB HD limit, and will clone an existing drive to the new one.
AAACCCKK!!!! I began physically destroying Maxtor floppies *years* ago!!
Everytime i used their utilities, booting on a good C: to format and clone to
the D:, the MaxBlast would destroy the C:!! Even tho it presented the option
to target the D:, it would *always* format or try to copy to the C:. Maxtor
made a good harddrive, i bought Maxtor even if it cost more, but their
software was garbage.
> Other
> options would be Symantec Ghost, Drive Image, or Drive Copy. All three should
> be available at a local software retailer.
>
> I personally use Ghost at CompUSA
I'll take a look at CompUSA next time i am in a big city. All those you listed
are pricey. But i have some investment in these puters, and can't toss it
when this one harddrive fails. I am not sure i want to trust my own code,
calling bios ints to do a "raw" read and write to copy the drive.
thanks,
Kat
