cloning a drive

Spinal2k2 · 19 Jun 2006 at 20:20

Ive just bout a new HDD for my 2nd system (acts as a backup system, and soon a CCTV system).

It currently has a 40GB drive in it - the new drive is a 250GB drive.

Is it possible to clone/copy the contets of the 40gb drive onto the new 250gb drive. ie including everything so that the 250gb drive will boot windows etc without problems.

Duke · 19 Jun 2006 at 20:38

Symantec Ghost

ByteJuggler · 19 Jun 2006 at 22:27

Or Acronis TrueImage. (Or a Linux livecd.)

danoliver1 · 19 Jun 2006 at 23:02

i used acronis true image to copy my entire drive to a new 320gb one, it even boots up from the new drive

t31os · 20 Jun 2006 at 13:05

danoliver1 said:
i used acronis true image to copy my entire drive to a new 320gb one, it even boots up from the new drive

Well yes, but thats whats its suppose to do.

I've only used Norton Ghost before once, and it worked flawlessly first time.

Dutch Guy · 20 Jun 2006 at 13:44

Another vote for Acronis TrueImage and a vote against Ghost.

Copied my IDE install to a SATA RAID-0 without problems with Acronis TrueImage, it's even possible to resize the partitions to what you want and when you are finished with cloning you can use it to make backups as well.

I used Ghost in the past and it failed horribly, giving me BSOD's when booting the new drive and errors when copying from IDE to IDE let alone IDE to SATA RAID-0

deadeyedic30 · 22 Jun 2006 at 13:18

Drive Copy 4

4Qman · 22 Jun 2006 at 15:03

Dutch Guy said:
Another vote for Acronis TrueImage and a vote against Ghost.

Defo, a friend does this many times a week in Pc upgades/repairs etc. And only uses TrueImage.