Re: My successful hard drive cloning

From: MGGP (anonymous_at_discussions.microsoft.com)
Date: 06/08/04 

Date: Mon, 7 Jun 2004 18:45:54 -0700

I do basically the same thing with Ghost - works great !

>-----Original Message-----
>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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