Help - need to clone in a hurry

Q

quik1

Well-Known Member
Joined
Feb 20, 2008
Messages
247
Reaction score
0
Location
Cape town
Hi all - i just replaced a MoBo and drive. I need to clone the original drive to the new one. How do i do this in a hurry. I dont have Norton ghost. All i have is some boot cd`s and HdClone. HdClone estimates it will finish in 6 hours time. I dont have this much time to complete it. It is both 80gb drives.
Or is there a way i can just copy all the data from A to B and then do a repair installation in XP to make it boot and function?

Please help
 
Everyone always recommends BartPE and Acronis True Image (ATI) to me so I think those should be the ones that you try out first.

There are options in ATI to clone the entire drive bit for bit or to just backup applications and data, the latter taking less time so maybe try that.
 
Last edited:
thanks all
Dont have acronis or bart - ghost for linux clones to ftp - norton ghost = 109mb!! (thats gonna take just as long)
 
Last edited:
quik1 said:
Cant seem to find it. brings up a page with a lot of other ghost stuff - not Norton :confused:


EDIT: OK i see u changed the link - downloaded it - does`nt work, just opens the cmd and then closes again.
Click to expand...

sorry try the torrent Hope that first one was not a spiderB : eek

Its a dos util so you must use it from a startup disk or something.
 
quik1 said:
Hi all - i just replaced a MoBo and drive. I need to clone the original drive to the new one. How do i do this in a hurry. I dont have Norton ghost. All i have is some boot cd`s and HdClone. HdClone estimates it will finish in 6 hours time. I dont have this much time to complete it. It is both 80gb drives.
Or is there a way i can just copy all the data from A to B and then do a repair installation in XP to make it boot and function?

Please help
Click to expand...

um, this is not something you want to hurry. If you like your data.... or if it is important data... you do not want to rush things! :eek:
 
Garyvdh said:
um, this is not something you want to hurry. If you like your data.... or if it is important data... you do not want to rush things! :eek:
Click to expand...

Um yeh - this is something i must do in a hurry. Its for a client and im already 2 hours late!
 
Thx uno - i already reinstalled windows - just busy to copy user files over and then im gonna reinstall apps. FYI im in cape town. Ill be sure to download some apps to do this come month end.
 
werner said:


can do disk to disk
Click to expand...

quik1 said:
ghost for linux clones to ftp
Click to expand...

you try help some folks only to learn that they failed the reading class in grade 2.

maybe i shoulda put bigger pictures in the thread
http://www.oakdome.com/lab/?page_id=8

what is it with people....are we losing it as a race? were our ancestors, with sticks and stones and waterwheels genuinely more intelligent than the creatures of today???????? is it something they put in the water???:confused::confused::confused:
 
Better idea. Download a linux-based cloning program (Qparted-live is a good example), instead of always recommending illegal methods of doing things. I've tried Acronis as a trial, but it has very limited funcionality in its trial version.
 
Be careful when you clone a system drive. Remember to shut down after cloning and remove the clone from your system before rebooting!
If you reboot with two active primary partitions, Windows will detect that and disable one of them - if that happens to be you main source system drive then your system won't boot and you'll have to manually fix it.

One of the best invstments I ever made was Acronis True Image. Latest version is Acronis True Image Echo Workstation, here for $79. Since my first investment in V6 in 2003 I've never had to a reinstall. My current 17GB Vista Ultimate installation is imaged in 6 minutes. It takes about the same to restore from another HDD. The 17GB on-disk compresses to about 12GB in the TIB file.
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top
Sign up to the MyBroadband newsletter
X