What is best software to copy Hard Drive to another hard drive? (vanity)

[free_life]

First I used was a Heathkit with cassette tape, a friends.

I am considering a laptop with windows 7, my 5 year old P4 Acer’s TFT died. But I like having a desktop too and yep it is maybe time to build myself a new one. This PC with Asus MB that I built myself has been a good machine since 2005 (i think, maybe older) no crashes, no re-installs of XP Pro, no hardware failures, all malware has been caught and crushed (I think & hope), but time marches on.

[Ramius]

Well then, MY first PC used paper tape (like in a TTY machine). The bootstrap loader (BIOS) was 17 instructions long, and each instruction was entered with switch settings.

Well, OK, you got me beat. But did you own it? If that's not a consideration my "first" computer was an Amdahl 7000 with punch cards. :-)

[Ramius]

Nice. Those homebuilts can be awesome. Well done.

I think you’ll find Win 7 to be among the better products that the Lazy-M ranch has produced. XP sp3 was pretty rock solid, but IMHO, 7 is better.

[free_life]

Ok, it says “Logon failure: unknown user name or bad password.”

I have not changed password for years. The XP admin password, yes?

[free_life]

User name has not changed either.

[TSgt]

LOL!

I’m 35 and my first PC was an 8086 with 512K of RAM but that was after we upgraded it. Tandy 1000RL.

MS-DOS Lives!

I started with DOS 3. I was an XCOPY badass and could do all kinds of fornicated things with QBasic.

The good ole’ days!

[TSgt]

Tandy 1000 RL

[free_life]

Uninstal DI and reinstall it. Your installation may just be corrupt.

Yea you could be right.

[free_life]

I store the clone at a friends and have all data backed up onto another here at home. Both are in removeable HD cages.

[HChampagne]

I would use a new program like CP/M the command is PIP B:=C:\*.*

[BuffaloJack]

Acronis is the best.
You can get the Western Digital version from Western Digital or the Seagate Version (they call it something else but it’s the same Acronis software) from Seagate.
Either can be installed directly and used or they allow you to create a bootable thumb drive also.
Then it’s just source drive, destination drive, enter and done.
256GB will take only 20 or 30 minutes.

[free_life]

I would use a new program like CP/M the command is PIP B:=C:\*.*

grin

[Sledge]

Look at this link for a walk through on checking the start up settings for services. The "Log on" tab is the one you need to check for the DI7 Service.

To configure how a service is started

Good luck.

[Age of Reason]

I think WindowsXP already comes with it’s own software for doing this, but in addition to an external high capacity drive, you will also need a floppy drive to make a bootable disc for the time when you may need to install the back up.

[andyk]

dd if=/dev/sdb of=/dev/sdc

meh.

[The Cajun]

*Acronis True Image*, only thing I ever use, simple and easy, never been disappointed.
Have used it to clone a drive (one I'm using now), create an image (Backup of one I'm using now to external HD) and also copy a drive (Copy of D internal drive on this computer to external drive).

[Ramius]

That’s nice... but that’s an early 80’s Tandy. My heathkit was at least five years, probably more, early than that. Hell... that’s a color screen and has a 3.5in drive. That’s late 80’s even.

The Heathkit I learned on was monochrome green-screen, with a panasonic cassette tape player as the storage device. I don’t recall an exact date... but it must have been about the mid to late 70’s.

[free_life]

Ok thanks Sledge I will check it out and see if there is something out of whack.

[dglang]

Acronis will do a complete clone also. It is often used to copy a smaller boot drive to a larger replacement.

I have been using it for both back ups and cloning.

[B Knotts]

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