Whats the best WinXP software for copying a HDD?

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22-09-2004, 09:52 PM
Carvahlo

Whats the best WinXP software for copying a HDD?

Whats the best WinXP software for copying a HDD?

Basically, I need to swap my main HDD with another one but instead of doing a complete reinstall of everything on the new drive, I just want to copy everything across from the old drive - basically an exact copy inc settings, cookies, data, temp files etc etc

The software needs to work from Windows (rather than DOS) if possible.
22-09-2004, 09:54 PM
Kezzer

easily done. Get norton ghost. Backup the whole drive into a .gho compressed file of the whole drive and then on the other one just extract it.

Unfortunately i don't think you can do it from windows as there are certain files impossible to copy whilst in windows (iirc)
22-09-2004, 09:58 PM
Craig

The one we use at work, and its from within Windows is Acronis TrueImage, its excelent :)
22-09-2004, 10:17 PM
invalidpagefaul

Try Seagates Discwizard 2003 it's most excellent,and best of all it's free.
22-09-2004, 10:34 PM
Steve

Acronis True Image is great unless you have special disk controllers or drives. Anything "normal" (read IDE) will be fine.
22-09-2004, 10:38 PM
Howard

Acronis and Partition Magic refused to play fair with my Maxtor drive :(
23-09-2004, 12:23 AM
Carvahlo

Quote:

Originally Posted by Kez

Acronis True Image is great unless you have special disk controllers or drives. Anything "normal" (read IDE) will be fine.

Does that include SATA?
23-09-2004, 12:29 AM
Carvahlo

Quote:

Originally Posted by invalidpagefaul

Try Seagates Discwizard 2003 it's most excellent,and best of all it's free.

Surely that doesn't copy a whole drive image inc registry, data, drivers etc?
23-09-2004, 01:09 AM
Apex

yes it does has all there are is data :)
23-09-2004, 01:28 PM
Jimmy Little

ghost is the daddy!
23-09-2004, 01:37 PM
Atomic

Quote:

Originally Posted by Bobby Sixkiller

ghost is the daddy!

Oh indeed.

I rely on it at work.
23-09-2004, 08:04 PM
Twigman

Another vote for Norton Ghost...
23-09-2004, 09:17 PM
Atomic

Symantec Ghost if its not the home version tho...
27-09-2004, 12:51 PM
Carvahlo

Thanks for all the tips.

Got Acronis Drive Image in the end - it's excellent - very clear and easy to use. Excellent windows interface too and does exactly what it says on the packet.
27-09-2004, 06:45 PM
Steve

Quote:

Originally Posted by Carvahlo

Thanks for all the tips.

Got Acronis Drive Image in the end - it's excellent - very clear and easy to use. Excellent windows interface too and does exactly what it says on the packet.

Excellent stuff! I agree that it's great.

Now try getting it to detect a Fast Track SX4's RAID 5 array! :P