Re: My successful hard drive cloning

From: Hemlock (Hemlock_at_trees.org)
Date: 06/08/04 

Date: Mon, 07 Jun 2004 20:57:48 -0400

I have two 80 gig hard drives partitioned 3x each, system , programs
and data

I use Ghost clone option and clone the master to the backup.

Both boot, I change the Bios setting.
When I install new software, I clone just before the install.

Then if the software works I leave it, if not I do a system to system,
backup to master disk copy with Ghost.

Works great.

Been doing this for 5 years.

Full disk clone is under 30 minutes.

Hemlock

 Mon, 07 Jun 2004 20:14:06 -0400, "William B. Lurie"
<billurie@nospam.org> wrote:

>Those of you who have been reading (and bypassing)
>my saga which started as FIXMBR.... might want an update.
>
>I made a clone, finally, a working copy of my Master HD.
>
>Since I want to do this every month, I decided to repeat
>the steps which seemed to lead to success, on a new drive,
>simulating what I'll be doing on June 30th.
>
>I disabled ccapp.exe from my Start-up menu....that being the
>only Symantec-related call. Then I used Drive Image 7, in its
>"Copy one Drive to another" mode, not its Drive Image mode,
>and right from the installed software, not from the Install
>disk/PQRE.
>
>I copied it to a newly formatted drive, set empty and
>Active and Primary. I copied With MBR.
>
>After it completed, I put the clone in Master (only)
>position on the cable, jumpered it as Master or Single,
>and booted up. It came on fine, and except for the fact that
>I'll have to switch back to Normal Start-Up, so that ccapp.exe
>runs, I have what appears to be a working clone of my Master
>Drive. It seems to me that it was not Microsofts anti-piracy
>tactics which stood in my way for a matter of weeks, but
>something of that sort in the Symantec Norton System Works.
>
>Now if somebody wants to follow in my footsteps, I hope
>I've described it completely. And if somebody wants to tell
>me exactly what ccapp.exe is for, I'd appreciate it.
>
> William B. Lurie

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