Copying/Cloning Hard drives

Bonvy · 01-26-2008, 04:57 PM

I have two hard drives in my computer(one 40G and one 80G). I would like to clone these drives onto a 250G external hard drive in order to restore them to a new 160G hard drive that I will install on my computer. My problem is that any backup or cloning program I have found will not let me back up two hard drives onto one. They they will not back up two drives at once and if you try to back up one at a time they want to erase whatever is on the target drive befor they backup another.

One of the the 40G drive is bootable and the 80G has apps and files. I don't want to have to re-install all those apps and I have lost the disks for some of them. Any suggestions??

dznutz · 01-26-2008, 05:19 PM

even when you try to put them in seperate partitions?

Bonvy · 01-26-2008, 05:30 PM

Yes. What I want to do is Install a large drive in my computer and clone and restore everything from my two hard drives onto the large one(partitions and all). I can't believe someone hasn't come up with a program that will do that.

SirKenin · 01-26-2008, 11:35 PM

This program will be your friend:

http://www.roadkil.net/program.php?ProgramID=22

Bonvy · 01-27-2008, 01:25 AM

Thanks, SirKenin, but that program wants to delete everything on the target disk too. So it will not let me copy two drives to one either. Before it would let me copy the second drive, it would erase the first one I copied. Just like all other copy programs.

SirKenin · 01-27-2008, 02:55 AM

Partition the drive first. Copy one drive to each partition.

makmillion · 01-27-2008, 04:18 AM

As said above.. but afterwards, you can boot up your hard drive and move every time from partition B to partition A, delete partition B and extended partition A to have 1 drive.. a pain in the a##, but it'll do the trick

Bonvy · 01-27-2008, 03:16 PM

I have tried to partition the drive first, but before the copy program will copy to the target disk, it wants to erase everything on the disk, including partitions.

01-26-2008, 04:57 PM	#1 (permalink)
Bonvy New Member Join Date: Jan 2008 Posts: 4	Copying/Cloning Hard drives I have two hard drives in my computer(one 40G and one 80G). I would like to clone these drives onto a 250G external hard drive in order to restore them to a new 160G hard drive that I will install on my computer. My problem is that any backup or cloning program I have found will not let me back up two hard drives onto one. They they will not back up two drives at once and if you try to back up one at a time they want to erase whatever is on the target drive befor they backup another. One of the the 40G drive is bootable and the 80G has apps and files. I don't want to have to re-install all those apps and I have lost the disks for some of them. Any suggestions??

01-26-2008, 05:19 PM	#2 (permalink)
dznutz Platinum Member Join Date: Dec 2007 Location: california Age: 28 Posts: 570	even when you try to put them in seperate partitions? __________________ ANTEC 900 COOLERMASTER EXTREME 500w MSI NEO-F p35 INTEL E4500 EVGA geforce 7300gs 2gb CORSAIR XMS2 SAMSUNG SH-203N SATA SEAGATE BARRACUDA 1Tb SATA AIRLINK 101 300n pci XP PRO 32 bit

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makmillion Platinum Member Join Date: Aug 2006 Location: ~/.mak/ Posts: 775	As said above.. but afterwards, you can boot up your hard drive and move every time from partition B to partition A, delete partition B and extended partition A to have 1 drive.. a pain in the a##, but it'll do the trick __________________ Mainboard: MSI K9NBPM2-FID CPU: AMD x2 3800+ RAM: Kingston / 5GB (2GB + 2GB + 512MB + 512MB @ 4-4-4-12) Video Card: evga 7600GT (256MB GDDR3) HDD: Seagate Barracuda 250GB 7200.10 (16MB Cache) x2 Optical: LG H41N + LG H44L Case: Xclio 188A (Black/Blue) OS: XP Pro Display: Acer AL2016W Audio: Logitech x-230 (Arrived - man these things rock!)

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01-26-2008, 05:30 PM	#3 (permalink)
Bonvy New Member Join Date: Jan 2008 Posts: 4	Yes. What I want to do is Install a large drive in my computer and clone and restore everything from my two hard drives onto the large one(partitions and all). I can't believe someone hasn't come up with a program that will do that.

01-26-2008, 11:35 PM	#4 (permalink)
SirKenin banned Join Date: Aug 2006 Posts: 4,711	This program will be your friend: http://www.roadkil.net/program.php?ProgramID=22

01-27-2008, 01:25 AM	#5 (permalink)
Bonvy New Member Join Date: Jan 2008 Posts: 4	Thanks, SirKenin, but that program wants to delete everything on the target disk too. So it will not let me copy two drives to one either. Before it would let me copy the second drive, it would erase the first one I copied. Just like all other copy programs.

01-27-2008, 02:55 AM	#6 (permalink)
SirKenin banned Join Date: Aug 2006 Posts: 4,711	Partition the drive first. Copy one drive to each partition.

01-27-2008, 03:16 PM	#8 (permalink)
Bonvy New Member Join Date: Jan 2008 Posts: 4	I have tried to partition the drive first, but before the copy program will copy to the target disk, it wants to erase everything on the disk, including partitions.