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Re: [offtopic] harddrive cloning

• Posted by Kat <gertie at PELL.NET> Sep 04, 2001
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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