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Message started by whodovoodoo2man on 30.03.06 at 14:00:03

Title: Cloning a Hard drive?
Post by whodovoodoo2man on 30.03.06 at 14:00:03
Hello,

I've never had to clone a drive before, but I've had a go today with limited success.

Basically, I want to clone a 10gb drive to a 40gb drive for more storage.

I tried a free program, which worked to a degree, but the drive is limited to 10gb with the remaining 30gb unassigned.  :(

This is in Windows 2000.

Any tips, program recommendations?

Thanks,

Andrew

Title: Re: Cloning a Hard drive?
Post by jandarsun8 on 30.03.06 at 14:59:34
Well for one, since it's Win 2K, if you right click on My Computer, go to Manage, not Properties, and on the left hand side go down to Disk Management and highlight it, your 30 gigs will show up there. You just have to format the 30 gigs, and it'll show up as another drive that you can use. Probably end up as E or F depending on CD/DVD ROM's installed and if your other drive was partitioned in the first place.

Norton's Ghost works pretty well along with Disk Commander (although I'm not sure who puts that out).

Title: Re: Cloning a Hard drive?
Post by paulpsomiadis on 31.03.06 at 01:41:03
Best options I've used are...

Norton Ghost (for older Win9x and for XBOX drives)

Partition Magic 8.0 (for ALL Windows and other O.S.'s)

Both are commercial, but they are excellent products!

Title: Re: Cloning a Hard drive?
Post by gdonovan on 31.03.06 at 03:41:01
Ghost can be found on some motherboard driver disks, that is where one of my versions came from!

Title: Re: Cloning a Hard drive?
Post by gamma742 on 31.03.06 at 17:19:12
If your up and running, I'd use Partition Magic to reclaim the unused space on the same partition "C:"

Title: Re: Cloning a Hard drive?
Post by paulpsomiadis on 01.04.06 at 02:05:51
I agree with @Gamma742 - if you can get your mitts on PQMagic, it's the mutts hairy parts in partition management! ;D

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