Need a decent program to replicate my hard disks plz..

[Curley_Boy 0]

I have 2 hd's in the PC atm:

 

Primary Master: Maxtor 30.1Gb ATA-133 (BOOT, SYSTEM & PROGRAMS)

Primary Slave: Maxtor 20.4Gb ATA-100 (FILE STORAGE)

 

both disks are nearly full and I'm thinking of purchasing another Maxtor 80Gb drive to replace the boot drive and use the remaining 2 as backup/storage drives.

 

The thing is I have my OS setup exactly as I want it now and don't want to spend ages reconfiguring it doing a fresh install.

 

What program could I buy (or download if theres a freeware one) that would allow me to duplicate my primary disk to the new 80Gb one?

 

I'm using W2000 SP3 btw.

 

ta

[AndyFair 0]

Use Norton Ghost (you also get a version if you buy Norton Systemworks).

This will allow you copy the contents of one hard drive to another.

 

There are alternatives (although I can't remember what they are off the top of my head, maybe one of the other guys here can help - the disadvantage of PUI), but I'm not sure if there are any freeware alternatives.

 

Rgds

AndyF

[Four and Twenty 0]

send me a pm if you want to know more about norton ghost

[Uykucu 0]

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send me a pm if you want to know more about norton ghost

Information is power!
I thought we did not do that here

Ghost is cool. will do the trick on a single pc or accross the network for 100PC's

[Curley_Boy 0]

Thanks guys I'll look into this Norton Ghost thingy.... hope it doesn't dent the wallet too much

[AndyFair 0]

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Ghost is cool. will do the trick on a single pc or accross the network for 100PC's

And the corporate edition does multicast, so you can do 100PCs at the same time.

But in this instance, the standard version will work fine. It's downloadable from Symantec's website, electronic version costs about $70...

AndyF

[Bursar 0]

Some manufacturers also bundle it with their hardware. I got a version of it my with Epox mobo

[Uykucu 0]

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Ghost is cool. will do the trick on a single pc or accross the network for 100PC's

And the corporate edition does multicast, so you can do 100PCs at the same time.

But in this instance, the standard version will work fine. It's downloadable from Symantec's website, electronic version costs about $70...

AndyF

Is there a standart version

[AndyFair 0]

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Is there a standart version

There is if you pay for it

AndyF

[Uykucu 0]

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Is there a standart version

There is if you pay for it

AndyF

I paid for it. But got the corporate.

[adamvjackson 0]

Hopefully no one will shun my idea, but I really like PowerQuest's DriveImage 2002. I've never had it fail, even on client's computers where the old drive had many bad sectors. DriveImage 2002 and PartitionMagic 7.0 should be in every technician's toolbox. The software costs about $65 US each, but well worth every dollar. My $.02. Thanks.

[Four and Twenty 0]

powerquest also makes a set of tools for the server

also extremely helpful however extremely expensive

[adamvjackson 0]

ServerImage? I think I had a demo of that, I believe it came on either the DriveImage CD... or maybe it was on the PartitionMagic CD. I hadn't used it, since it is a demo, and I really don't have a "sever" set up. I would imagine to get the most out of a program such as ServerImage, you would need to have multiple raid arrays.

[Four and Twenty 0]

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I would imagine to get the most out of a program such as ServerImage, you would need to have multiple raid arrays.

exactly