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Re: [offtopic] harddrive cloning

• Posted by munchr at mac.com Sep 04, 2001
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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.