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csweatherston
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20th Mar 10 at 20:42   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote

Hi.

I need to completely clone a hdd from my laptop.

my desktop has hotswappable drivebays, so was hoping to stick the current laptop in one empty bay and the new hdd in a separate bay.

is there any free software i can use to copy or move everything across?. OS/ boot files etc included?
Daveskater
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20th Mar 10 at 21:59   View Garage View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote

I use Karen's Replicator to make automatic backups to my second hard drive, it should be able to do what you're after http://www.karenware.com/powertools/ptreplicator.asp


Numberwang!

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I like you Dave, you are a man of men

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Dave's maybe capable of a drive-by cuddle

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csweatherston
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Cheers Dave,
Would that work to replicate 2 drives which arnt in use?.
As most of these clone tools seem to image the drive your running (eg c

where as i want to replicate f:\ onto g:\

If that makes sence?
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quote:
Originally posted by csweatherston
Cheers Dave,
Would that work to replicate 2 drives which arnt in use?.
As most of these clone tools seem to image the drive your running (eg c

where as i want to replicate f:\ onto g:\

If that makes sence?


Symantec Ghost should do it.
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Ghost is only needed if you want to create an image which is a bit ott if he's got the desktop to put the drives in.

The tool Dave posted should be fine.
Daveskater
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Yeah the one I use literally copies the files over so my backups drive is literally a carbon copy of the main drive.


Numberwang!

Originally posted by AlunJ
I like you Dave, you are a man of men

Originally Whatapp'd by Neo
Dave's maybe capable of a drive-by cuddle

Look at my pictures
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quote:
Originally posted by Richie
Ghost is only needed if you want to create an image which is a bit ott if he's got the desktop to put the drives in.

The tool Dave posted should be fine.


ah my bad, i didnt read it fully.
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Actual does that Karens replicator software copy the OS/boot files aswell?

[Edited on 21-03-2010 by Reedy]
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Yeah, you would just set source to <DriveLetter1>:\ and destination to <DriveLetter2>:\ and it would push everything over like for like
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I use Acronis home image
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SnapShot - Brilliant program!!
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quote:
Originally posted by pow
I use Acronis home image





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Dan, the lastest version (what I have ) has a tool to change the tib's into vhd's

 
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