Hard drive cloneing?

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Poison47

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I do a lot of OS work. and ive always wanted a way to clone a HDD with a good OS and programs on it so i can easily install it over and over again to the same, or different HDD's

I asked my tech teacher about this, and he said i should look into Norton Ghost, but it deals with floppies, and no really uses those any more

Plus i was never really a big fan of Norton, but id use it if it would help me

so does anyone know how to perfect this?

Remember, i want like a file that i can write to a HDD, i don't want to actually "Clone" it, i just want to image it.
 
Nope you need to read more into it..

There are linux based software and other windows based apps you can download for free from that site...

Like PING for example

I always use linux based programs over windows for backing up data, and low level stuff like partition manipulation, etc... best way in my opinion. Spend some time going through them rather than just having a quick scan and saying you don't trust them. Do your research and you will learn a lot.
 
Hey ghost I'm looking at this PING program but have a question, will this let me move the contents of onw hard drive to another? I have an ide hdd right now and will be getting a new sata hdd for xmas and I want to use that as my main hdd and get rid of the ide altogether. Will ping let me turn the sata hdd into my main one and move all the contents with it?
 
Use Gparted for that (first post). What you would have to do is have both drives in the PC, run Gparted and do a partition copy to the new SATA drive.

Should work a treat, but if I was installing a new drive I would just back up the needed data and setting then start from scratch so you get the most out of your new SATA drive.
 
just a heads up.
drive-xml corrupted all the files, they were still their just corrupt (exe, pdf, word...)

Acronis 8 or 9? I had worked great, until is reeked havoc on my pc...

r-disk worked but seems slower & requires their software to read the image (junk imo)

Ghost is revered for working once setup. Haven't tried it as it seems like a resource hog (haven't verified)


Hard Drive manuf. should have software to clone the HD to another HD. I have no experience with that.
 
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Norton Ghost can easily clone your hard drive. I have two hard drives in my computer & regularly clone the main drive as a back up to the second drive. I clone the complete drive, including the op system & programs.
 
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I used to use norton ghost. I havent for a longtime now. There is alot better programs out there now. I would use linux for this now.
 
Poison47 said:
I do a lot of OS work. and ive always wanted a way to clone a HDD with a good OS and programs on it so i can easily install it over and over again to the same, or different HDD's

I asked my tech teacher about this, and he said i should look into Norton Ghost, but it deals with floppies, and no really uses those any more

Plus i was never really a big fan of Norton, but id use it if it would help me

so does anyone know how to perfect this?

Remember, i want like a file that i can write to a HDD, i don't want to actually "Clone" it, i just want to image it.
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That is wrong. The newest version of Ghost actually uses a PE (preinstall environment) boot disk which runs off of CD or DVD. You don't have to use floppies.

What OS are you using and trying to clone?

Is this for back ups, or are you wanting to mass clone the same image to many machines?
 
tlarkin said:
That is wrong. The newest version of Ghost actually uses a PE (preinstall environment) boot disk which runs off of CD or DVD. You don't have to use floppies.

What OS are you using and trying to clone?

Is this for back ups, or are you wanting to mass clone the same image to many machines?
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Well both. and im trying to image my XP and Vista systems. im constantly killing my hard drive to clear the viruses and junk, i do this about once a month and if i had a imaged set of my XP/Vista, then it would be easier

and i have a good number of computers, so i would like to do this with them as well
 
Poison47 said:
Well both. and im trying to image my XP and Vista systems. im constantly killing my hard drive to clear the viruses and junk, i do this about once a month and if i had a imaged set of my XP/Vista, then it would be easier

and i have a good number of computers, so i would like to do this with them as well
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you may also want to look into a product called deep freeze if you have repeated problems
 
I like to use Acronis Home Image. Can copy the whole partition, OS and all over to another drive and adjust the partition size so on the new drive you dont have the old partition and unallocated space. It can also just make an image of the aprtition for backup uses. Very easy to use.

That paired with Acronis Disk Director are some of my favorite programs.
 
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