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Howdy..
K so I have 2 hard drives, and I want to copy the entire boot volume to another hard drive, through a command prompt.
Disk 1=Win2000
Disk 2=Hard drive i want to copy to..
I have no ghosting software or optical drives either. I was thinking of booting with win98se boot floppy {On disk 2} to get to a command prompt, then typing some command to copy across.
Or is there a way to do it in Windows? (I'm hoping that there is).
Any help?
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Try booting with a linux live-cd and use the dd command..
Howdy.
Thanks sirdice, it seems to be copying something, what it's copying i don't know, will find out when it's done.
cheers
f2b
Lol!
You can use the "diskpart" coomand from the cmd prompt mate to copy simple boot volumes.
http://www.microsoft.com/resources/d....mspx?mfr=true
Works a treat for me!
If you use it as something like dd if=/dev/hda1 of=/dev/hdb1 it'll copy hda1 (first partition on the first disk) byte for byte to the other disk.. So it'll include everything..
AFAIK there's no DOS command to copy a full disk apart from diskcopy.com but IIRC diskcopy can only copy floppies.. You might be able to copy every file with XCOPY (plus some switches like /E /T and /H) but I doubt you would be able to properly boot from it.. Also Win98 cannot read an NTFS volume.. If you used something like ntfs4dos then all your ACLs will get lost in the process..
Edit: Shoot.. :eek: Nokia: If I read that MS article correctly, you're basicly creating a RAID1 (mirror) then breaking it?
"diskpart" and then "add disk=*" from the command prompt can mirror one partion to another on a different HDD.
If I read it correctly it'll mirror a (simple) volume not a partition.Quote:
Originally posted here by Nokia
"diskpart" and then "add disk=*" from the command prompt can mirror one partion to another on a different HDD.
There's a slight difference between the two: Differences between volume and partition.Quote:
n : Specifies the disk to contain the mirror You can mirror only simple volumes. The specified disk must have unallocated space at least as large as the size of the simple volume you want to mirror.
I see what you are saying Sirdice, but NT based O/S's have more that one root directory - Hence Windows will assign at least one path to each mounted volume, I.E C:/, D:/, E:/ etc
You give focus to a partition on the selected disk.
When a partition has focus, the related volume(s) also have focus.
Or
When the volume has focus, the related disk and partition also have focus if the volume maps to a single specific partition.
In other words if you give focus to the volume on a partition by default the partition had focus too, so you also copy the partition over.
//Can I have a pound for everytime I used the word focus please :D
http://www.snapfiles.com/get/hdclonefree.html << freeware
you could also do ufsdump /ufsrestore
Howdy..
Thanks everyone for the help. I got the job done eventually after 3 attempts..
So i guess it's greenies for everyone. ;) :D
cheers
f2b
Hi,
Glad you got it done, i was just going to add a little tale from back when i was a kid.
My cousin brought round his PC (and yes we are talking about a big ass desktop) and we wanted to try just copying everything from mine to his, (he had screwed his up somehow and couldn't be assed to reload, plus we wanted to try it anyway just to see how it coped). Both were running the origional version of Win 95 at the time, the one that came on floppys :eek:
Anyway we were using FX to transfer and just told it to copy all of my computer to his. FX started working away and the next day we came back to it and it was done, yay, apart from the fact that because it was DOS any filename that was of any length had been truncated with a ~ as DOS used to do, so none of it worked :rolleyes:
Ah well, after a bit of playing we eventually got DOOM2 to work so all was not lost :D
and replyQuote:
I have no ghosting software or optical drives either.
with result ofQuote:
Try booting with a linux live-cd
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it seems to be copying something,
so my point.. f2b you Commented you had no optical drives ie NO CD ROM..
so HOW were you able to try sirdice's advice?
as for the rest of the thread .. good information
or was the whole thing staged..
Howdy..
It's called a Thumb Drive... Phlak is a liveCD and it can be installed onto a thumbdrive.. :rolleyes:Quote:
so my point.. f2b you Commented you had no optical drives ie NO CD ROM..
so HOW were you able to try sirdice's advice?
Just like KnoppixSTD can be put onto a thumbdrive and used instead of a CD. ;)
Maybe take a look at it some time, considering majority of liveCD's can be used with thumbdrives to boot up with.. :rolleyes:
f2b
What's that mean??Quote:
or was the whole thing staged..
not that it is a bad thing.. if it wasQuote:
What's that mean??
See F2B's reply..
And to F2B sry if I infered an insult.. I felt that some readers would be mislead by the context.. thanks for the explaination..
this is true.. but some are more easily/safely installed on a jumpdrive than others..ie the funny smell these drives make when there is too much swap file activity.. but it is some 6 months since I last played with any..Quote:
considering majority of liveCD's can be used with thumbdrives
And finaly.. which method worked?
Howdy..
The method that got the job done was to boot up with Phlak, on a thumbdrive, and then i put Sirdice's idea to work.Quote:
I had to do a little bit of fiddling, only because the first attempt did not go as planned, it cloned everything, but it got corrupted somewhere during the transplant. ;)Quote:
Originally posted here by SirDice
If you use it as something like dd if=/dev/hda1 of=/dev/hdb1 it'll copy hda1 (first partition on the first disk) byte for byte to the other disk.. So it'll include everything..
Once i had recovered the data and safely got it moved to the fresh hard-drive, i had a look at what House929 suggested...
This program is very similar to Nortan Ghost, only it's a little more user friendly and easy to use and is not a resource hog, the only problem is that they don't tell you that with the free version you cannot use a CDimage to transplant from one hard disk to the next.Quote:
Originally posted here by House929
http://www.snapfiles.com/get/hdclonefree.html &lt;&lt; freeware
you could also do ufsdump /ufsrestore
You need to purchase the professional edition to do that. But i purchased it anyhow, as i was extremely curious about it, and i am very happy with what i paid for it.
It's all good Undies. I was fairly tired when i made the response, maybe i could of replied a little differently .. ;)Quote:
Originally posted here by Und3ertak3r And to F2B sry if I infered an insult.. I felt that some readers would be mislead by the context.. thanks for the explaination..
cheers
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