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.
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)
The one we use at work, and its from within Windows is Acronis TrueImage, its excelent
Try Seagates Discwizard 2003 it's most excellent,and best of all it's free.
Acronis True Image is great unless you have special disk controllers or drives. Anything "normal" (read IDE) will be fine.
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Acronis and Partition Magic refused to play fair with my Maxtor drive
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Does that include SATA?Originally Posted by Kez
Surely that doesn't copy a whole drive image inc registry, data, drivers etc?
yes it does has all there are is data
ghost is the daddy!
Oh indeed.
I rely on it at work.
Another vote for Norton Ghost...
Twigman
Symantec Ghost if its not the home version tho...
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!
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