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    Question Copy HDD

    I just go a 100gig HDD. I now want to copy everything off my old 60gig to the 100gig. Then I will use the 100gig in my home pc and will be putting the 60gig in my car pc. Anyone have any ideas on programs that would copy the entire contence of one drive to another. Thanks

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    Norton Ghost is the best software to do this. All you really need is the boot disc that the program makes to get this done. PM me.

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    The last Maxtor retail drive I purchased had a tool for that function .... I never used it, but it was called maxblast or something.

    A quick google turns up this link for description and download.

    Good luck
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    what i did with mine was hooked both hdd to my main computer copy one to the other and such
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    You can always use drive image 2002 ( same people as partition magic). This program rocks, but to do everything you want to do, you will need partition magic.

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    From the posts, it looks like more than on solution is available.

    Read them and give one or more a try.

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    I always copy my HDD's (with windows sys) with Partition Magic )
    It always worked perfectly. Norton Ghost is also a good tool but if I remember it needs a FAT partition to save the image . So because of i'm using only NTFS i never used it


    Hope i could help you

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    One of the newer versions of Ghost supports NTFS. I do not recall the version, But I used the software to Image drives for a job in '01.

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    Originally posted by Jeffro
    what i did with mine was hooked both hdd to my main computer copy one to the other and such
    This is also what I did, stick your 60gig in there as the master on teh primary IDE, the 100gig as teh master on teh secondary IDE, boot up as normal, and copy everything over, there will however be one file that cant be copied, and I believe this is the swap file, virtual memory or something, and just gets re created on teh new drive..
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    Use Filesync:
    http://fileware.com/download.htm

    It will make it easy to copy in chunks so you don't have to start over from the beginning if it crashes.

    At work a couple of weeks ago I used it to copy 140 Gigs from a file server to a set of spanned hard drives in my computer.
    Now that took a while but it worked! The bigest problem with that is that I had to set my swap file space to 1GB in order for FileSync not to run out of memory and crash!

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