Robertio

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All we wanted to do was clone the contents of an old hard disk onto a new one.
A simple task, or so we thought. M'board came with a CD containing a copy of Ghost a restricted copy of ghost that will only let you write to / read from images (in the manual it said it could do disk cloning [img]images/smilies/mad.gif[/img] )

Having wasted an evening not finding any way of getting past Ghost we are back at square one

Does anyone have a freeware / shareware / own creation drive cloner?

While at the job before my last job I did find instructions on the web for how to do it without needing any special software, but I don't have them any more

Any help greatly appreciated

Silent Monkey

You don't say what OS you're using, but W95/98 all you need is fdisk, format and xcopy with the right switches.

Mount the new drive as D: (assuming you only have one drive currently.
Fdisk & format it as usual.
Create a bootable floppy and copy fdisk onto it
Xcopy from C: to D: in a dos window using
xcopy C:\*.* d:\*.* /r /i /c /h /k /e /y /s
Swap the drives around so the new one is C: boot from floppy and use fdisk to make the partition active
Reboot from the new disk.

There are many slight variations on this procedure


Ghost using images only:
While running on your old disk create an image on to the new disk.
Copy the image from the new to the old disk deleting as necessary to create space.
Restore the image to the new disk.

Disclaimer: Never done it this way but don't see why it shouldn't work.

Avi

http://www.kazaa.com

I Got a copy of Ghost 7 Enterprise Version off there today to do exactly the same (Because i had lost my original CD )

it's a 30mb file

Andy

Robertio

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Thanks for that, I now have Ghost with the options that are supposed to be there

SM, I tried doing the image and copying it between drives thing last night, but could not read the image file as it then had header problems

All being well should get things sorted easily now

MichelleWRX1994

Would cloning sheep not be easier

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