Re: Have you done this with your Laptop ?

"Me" <whoownsthepen@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>I have seen various HDD clone programs, but the problem is that they (As far
>as I can see) just make an image of the drive which can only be used to
>backup or restore the hdd. However, what I want is just to move everything
>to the external drive so that it is still accessable and not in an image
>form.

Well, Ghost will make a disk-to-disk clone, which will result in a
readable drive. If you don't care about the OS, Xcopy will work:

xcopy c:\*.* <whatever>:\ /e/c/i/q/h/r/k/y

.

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