Cloning drive?

[Howard]

I'd like to transfer the contents of my system (C: ) drive on my server to another hard disc that's quieter, but around the same capacity. Can this be done as simply as copy and paste in Windows (Server 2003) or is there special software that does this? The drives aren't the same make and model, so the capacity will be a bit different, but they're both around 4GB.

Thanks in advance.

[Jiff Lemon]

Ghost, Driveimage or similar is what you'll need

[gamezfreak]

Norton Ghost is what you require.

T'is a good program, I think you can get a free DOS version from somewhere, that does the job nicely

Any problems, just ask

[Howard]

Can this be done simply within Windows to copy the contents over to a slave drive connected?

[Jiff Lemon]

No

[directhex]

no, not without dedicated software. driveimage is probably the best bet, since it has 0 DOS content whatsoever, which 2k3 should like

[Howard]

I meant with the software

[Jiff Lemon]

yes, Ghost/driveimage generally run from a bootable floppy and would copy the entire drive across to the slave.
It wouldn't matter if the drives are different sizes/makes/speeds, as long as you weren't trying to put 10gig of data onto a 2 gig drive!

[directhex]

driveimage boots from cd, into an XP environment - which is good from an NTFS perspective. i don't know if you can do a drive clone from the booted environment, but you can just click a couple of icons if you install it in windows.

[Blub2k]

Ghost works fine with 2003 server and the new engine does not work with dos and needs two boot disks in the corporate version, not so sure about the home version but I suspect that is the same.

[Howard]

Thanks guys, I'll give it a try sometime