Disk copying software?

JD · Post by JD » Thu Oct 27, 2005 6:24 pm

Is there such a thing that will let me copy the contents of one hard disk completely, byte-for-byte, to another physical disk? My search so far says no. I need something simple that can be run from within windows (no optical or floppy drive in machine). And I would prefer it if it didnt resize the 189 gb partition of the destination disk to a 2.5gb partition like all the other software I've tried.

wpublic · Post by **wpublic** » Thu Oct 27, 2005 7:18 pm

have you checked out driveimage xml?

http://www.download.com/DriveImage-XML/ ... 43231.html

rndmtask · Post by **rndmtask** » Thu Oct 27, 2005 9:23 pm

Your avatar is the BSD daemon or whatever his name is and your asking that? Use dd sure you might have to boot BSD on the computer somehow but that will guarantee a perfect bit for bit copy. Or possibly cygwin has a dd utility.

JD · Post by JD » Fri Oct 28, 2005 9:46 am

Originally posted by rndmtask
Your avatar is the BSD daemon or whatever his name is and your asking that? Use dd sure you might have to boot BSD on the computer somehow but that will guarantee a perfect bit for bit copy. Or possibly cygwin has a dd utility.

Apparently you missed the part about no floppy or optical drive in the machine.

Cygwin will not allow a perfect copy because windows limits its acess to system files while in use.

JD · Post by JD » Fri Oct 28, 2005 10:09 am

Originally posted by wpublic
have you checked out driveimage xml?

http://www.download.com/DriveImage-XML/ ... 43231.html

Thank you.....that worked perfectly!