Re: Changing boot hard drive



In alt.comp.hardware.pc-homebuilt "Timothy Daniels"
<TDaniels@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

<george41407@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Is there any sort of freeware disk cloning software. [.....]
I dont need backup software, since I just copy
my data to my spare hard drives, and I really dont
need anything more.


Western Digital has their downloadable Data Lifeguard Tools.
But I have no idea how well it works:
http://support.wdc.com/download/index.asp?swid=1

It works quite well.
I'm not sure that they will allow the program to run if at least *one*
of the two drives isn't WD though. ;-{

I think they check; and if one drive isn't Western Digital, it says
something idiotic like, "No Western Digital Drives Found."

I think I recall doing a three-way-swap once, transferring temporarily
to a WD drive from the main one on a system, and then from that drive to
another, to get around the limitation.

But, like I said above, I'm not certain of that.

Maxtor has their downloadable MaxBlast 5:
http://www.seagate.com/ww/v/index.jsp?locale=en-US&name=MaxBlast_5&vgnextoid=7add8b9c4a8ff010VgnVCM100000dd04090aRCRD

And Seagate has their downloadable DiscWizard
(which is the same thing as MaxBlast)
http://www.seagate.com/ww/v/index.jsp?locale=en-US&name=DiscWizard&vgnextoid=d9fd4a3cdde5c010VgnVCM100000dd04090aRCRD


*TimDaniels*

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