Re: Hard disk copying/cloning
- From: Jay Somerset <jay-1941-@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 25 Jun 2005 11:40:37 -0400
On Thu, 23 Jun 2005 13:33:22 -0400, "Lanwench [MVP - Exchange]"
<lanwench@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>
> In news:OTPVuEAeFHA.2584@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx,
> Neil <n.hall@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> typed:
> > Hi. I've got a laptop with a hard disk that I need to clone to another
> > (although smaller) hard disk. I need to do this via CDRWs because I
> > can't daisy chain the disks.
> >
> > Is there an easy and cheap way to do this? I'm only likely to do it
> > once so don't wish to purchase expensive backup tools.
> >
> > I appreciate any help you can give.
> >
> > Neil
>
> I don't know of any free cloning tools, but I tend to use Acronis True
> Image - I've found it better than Ghost myself. It isn't very expensive.
> However, depending on what you're trying to image, using CDRW may really
> suck...you could get an external USB/firewire HD, do the image over to it,
> and then back to the replacement HD using an Acronis boot CD....this works
> pretty well. And then you've also got a nice external HD you can use for
> backups - either manual file copying, batch file copying, NTBackup to file,
> Acronis, whatever you like.
>
The free version of XXCOPY will clone disks. Use the /clone parameter.
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Jay.
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