Copying/Cloning Hard drives

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Bonvy

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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??:confused:
 
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.
 
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.
 
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 :D
 
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.
 
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