| Title: | IBM PCs, clones, DOS, etc. |
| Notice: | Intro in 1-11, Windows stuff in NOTED::MSWINDOWS please |
| Moderator: | TARKIN::LIN ND |
| Created: | Mon Jan 02 1995 |
| Last Modified: | Fri Jun 06 1997 |
| Last Successful Update: | Fri Jun 06 1997 |
| Number of topics: | 3023 |
| Total number of notes: | 28404 |
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| 2966.1 | LEEDS::JOHN | John H. Leeds Jr. | Thu Mar 27 1997 11:38 | 3 | |
for some reason my instructions were not included, oh well, again...
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| 2966.2 | disk copy of system disk for w95 | LEEDS::JOHN | John H. Leeds Jr. | Thu Mar 27 1997 11:46 | 26 |
do the normal stuff, ie fdisk and format the target drive.
boot the system disk to full windows
open a MSDOS window
xcopy32 c:*.* d:/h/e/c/f/r/k
this will give you a clean copy of the drive with all hidden files,
etc.
If you try this by booting only to the command prompt, not all the
switches are available for use.
or another method,,
boot system to windows
open up control panel
open up system properties
open performance, and select virtual memory
select let me specify my own virtual memory, and set to none.
exit and save
delete swap file, or just reboot
then using explorer, drag and drop c to d.
remove original c drive, and replace with new copy. make sure drive is
set to proper device number.
John Leeds
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| 2966.3 | Check out GHOST | DECIDE::MOFFITT | Mon Mar 31 1997 11:53 | 15 | |
Or get a copy of GHOST (http://www.ghostsoft.com) and make your life easy ;^) GHOST will allow you to put a raw disk in your system and copy your complete existing hard drive to your new disk including partitions. It'll FDISK and FORMAT on the fly and allows you to expand or shrink FAT partitions on the target drive before you start your transfer. Drives of different sizes are supported (as long as the target's big enough to hold the information from the source). GHOST also supports Win NT and OS/2 copies. The downloadable version is good for a month. The full version costs approx $250 - pretty steep for a one time transfer but trivial if you've got to build systems on a regular basis. enjoy, tim m. | |||||
| 2966.4 | QUARK::LIONEL | Free advice is worth every cent | Mon Mar 31 1997 12:59 | 4 | |
PowerQuest, the Partition Magic folks, are starting a beta test of a product to do disk cloning. I expect it will be a lot cheaper than $250. Steve | |||||
| 2966.5 | BULEAN::BANKS | Saturn Sap | Wed Apr 02 1997 09:54 | 1 | |
Their web page is advertising that product for (I believe) $29. | |||||
| 2966.6 | I'd like just one more feature | DECIDE::MOFFITT | Wed Apr 02 1997 13:43 | 10 | |
I spent some time reading the information on Powerquests Drivecopy and the one feature it appears to be lacking is the ability to resize partitions as you copy your old drive to your new one. It looks like you can use PartitionMagic to resize the partitions on your new drive once it's built but that means buying two utilities for around $100 rather than just the $30 Drivecopy. Hopefully Ghostsoft will feel a bit of pressure to drop the price of Ghost (which does allow on-the-fly partition resizing at copy time). tim m. | |||||