Re: best cloning method?

alanm <nospam@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote
Rod Speed <rod.speed.aaa@xxxxxxxxx> wrote
alanm <nospam@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote
Rod Speed <rod.speed.aaa@xxxxxxxxx> wrote
alanm <nospam@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote
Rod Speed <rod.speed.aaa@xxxxxxxxx> wrote
alanm <nospam@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote
Rod Speed <rod.speed.aaa@xxxxxxxxx> wrote
Anna <myname@xxxxxxxxx> wrote
Timothy Daniels <TDaniels@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote
<stevesai@xxxxxxxxxxx> asled

Is there a nice simple DOS program that I can run that
will format the new drive, copy the old to the new, and
make the new drive bootable?

Yes! And it's free for 30 days. It's called Casper XP.
www.FSSdev.com/products/casperxp. I've used half
a dozen other cloning utilities, and for cloning (as opposed
to image files and incrmental backups) it's the best and
the easiest to use. It will copy the MBR to the new drive,
it will mark the new paritition "active" (if only one
partition is being cloned), and the new partition will be as
bootable
as the one cloned. Casper can be made to clone in either
of 2 modes - the entirety of one HD can be cloned to the
entirety of another HD, or just one partition can be cloned
to another HD which may or may not already have other
partitions on it. (True Image cannot do the latter.)

As with all cloning, disconnect the old drive before
starting up the clone OS for the first time. The clone
may be *seen* by the old OS before the clone is
first started up, but the clone must not see the old OS
until after it has undergone its first startup. Thereafter,
at subsequent startups, the clone may see its "parent"
OS without problems.

Sorry, Casper XP does not run under DOS, but that
matters not a whit - it will copy everything while running
under WinXP, including the wretched Symantec anti-virus
software with all its settings and its subscription life
span. Just disconnect the PC from the internet and disable
the
AV off before cloning to be sure.

<stevesai@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote

Thanks for the reply. I'm trying True Image right now, but
don't know how to make a bootable CD with the utilites in
linux. I saw a part of the program for making bootable
recovery cd/dvd's but I'm sure that's different. Can you
point me in the right direction?

Steve:
We're talking *direct* disk-to-disk cloning here, right?

In addition to Tim's recommendation re the Casper XP program,
let me offer the following...

If you're primarily interested in using a disk cloning program
with either a bootable floppy disk or bootable CD as the media
to carry out the cloning operation, you may be interested in
Symantec's Norton Ghost 2003 program.

True Image makes a lot more sense.
Ghost 2003 is way past its useby date now.

Bull***.

Fact. Its lan support is completey fucked, it cant do incremental
images, its user interface is quite fucked, its hopeless for
simpler users if the image creation goes bad for even the
simplest reason, etc etc etc.

Lan support isn't necessary with mobile racks.
Incremental images are irrelevant to cloning.

And anyone with a clue gets an app that can
do more than just cloning with mobile racks.

Nonsense.


The user interface is simple.

Its quite fucked.

So are you.


The image creation doesn't fail.

Wrong, as always.


Perhaps it only fails for IDIOTS.

Any 2 year old could do better than that pathetic effort, child.


IOW you have nothing to say. Excellent !

Any 2 year old could do better than that pathetic effort, child.


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