Re: Cloning

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OK some of the items I'll have to look up.
In my case my SATA HDD is by Seagate, so they'll have something on their
website which will allow me to migrate my OS etc?
The drive itself was OEM so I did not get a CD or whatever. Thank you.

"Pegasus (MVP)" wrote:


"AIANDAS" <AIANDAS@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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I had one question re dynamic vs. basic which has been answered.
Now I have the following dilemma:
I have a 40 gig disk where my XP Pro is lying
I want to clone it onto a 500 gig SATA
Norton Ghost 2003 is not really working as I had hoped, does XP Pro allow
me
to migrate/clone onto my 500 gig.
Any suggestions will be greatly appreciated.
Thank you.

Cloning utilities belong to the class of tools that usually do not work with
dynamic disks . . .

Windows does not have any inbuilt tools for cloning. Here are a few options:
a) Use the cloning tool that the manufacturer of the new disk makes
available on his home site.
b) Connect both the old disk and the new disk to some other PC, then use
robocopy.exe to perform the cloning.
c) Boot the machine with a Bart PE boot CD (which you have to manufacture),
then continue as per option b).

Some extra notes for options b) and c):
- You must partition and format the target disk before commencing the copy
process.
- You must mark the first partition as "active".
- You must use the appropriate switches with robocopy.exe so that it copies
hidden and system files.
- When booting the machine for the first time with the new disk, make sure
that the old disk remains disconnected.



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