Re: copying hard drive to hard drive

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From: Pegasus (I.can_at_fly.com)
Date: 08/05/04


Date: Thu, 5 Aug 2004 23:20:41 +1000


<troy.kerr@okolonafire.org> wrote in message
news:09b301c47aec$9af1e0b0$a401280a@phx.gbl...
> I'm looking for a way to copy an a 10 gig hard drive to an
> 80 gig hard drive without having to install and load all
> the software from one to the other. Is there such a
> thing/way? Someone said something about x copy? Not
> sure. Please help.....

You have at least five options:
1. Use the cloning software that many disk manufacturers make
    available on their home site.
2. Use an imaging product such as Ghost, DriveImage, TrueImage.
3. Install both disks as slave disks in some other Win2000/XP machine,
    then use xcopy.exe with the appropriate switches. You will then
    have to repair the boot environment.
4. Boot with a Bart WinXP PE CD (www.bootdisk.com), then
    use xcopy.exe as above.
5. Install a parallel copy of Win2000, then use xcopy.exe as above.



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