Posted on 02/03/2011 6:46:01 PM PST by free_life
I want to copy my 250 Gig Hard Drive to another 250 Hard Drive. I have been doing this for years with Drive Image using the 'drive copy' function in DI7. Now I get an error message "the service did not start due to a logon failure" and the drives do not show up in DI's GUI interface.
I have not been able to figure how to correct this problem.
I like to copy my whole HD not just make an image, that way if my drive ever fails I just pop the other drive in and I am up and running. I use removable IDE hard drive cages. I am running XP Pro SP2. I have a C: a D: and a E: partitions.
I have been looking around online at other possible drive or partition copy software and finding it kind of daunting.
Any help would be appreciated. Excuse the vanity but where else is an Freeper going to go for good advise?
Spend a few hundred bucks to buy or build a Windows Home Server.
If you just want a regular copy why not just use xcopy?
Don't let the fact that it's free put you off.
Commercial: Acronis True Image
Linux: dd
(that last one is kind of a joke. but only kind of)
xcopy c:\*.* d: /E
Don’t have the time or money.
If you are wanting an image of the drive, rather than a copy of the file system, I’d recommend the free version of Acronis. Norton/Symantec Ghost also works.
There are LOTS of good tools out there to accomplish the task, and many of them won’t cost you a dime.
If you are simply wanting to copy files, just connect the drive, boot up to a ‘Live CD’ of some kind, and simply copy/paste.
I remember using xcopy (xcopy32.exe I think it was) years ago, had some kind of problem (don’t remember what now) and I think that is why I got Drive Image.
Acronis True Image can do both drive copying and disk imaging. There’s also freeware available for disk drive management. Go to www.askbobrankin.com and on the left side of the page navigate to Hard Drives.
I was just looking at DriveImage XML Backup online. Thanks for the recommendation.
Acronis True Image only does images or does it do drive copying?
acronis
It does drives or images. I’ve used it for both.
I want to clone my HD so I have a bootable ready to go backup drive.
I wonder if he booted a live CD if he could mount the XP drives/partitions, then use something like rsync to do it all at once...
Man you are ancient.
I bet your first PC was an ‘088.
Back in the days when a 10mb HD was a big deal.
Like mine .
You have to be clear with Acronis, though. Disk Doctor is a totally different product than True Image. OP needs True Image.
I have used this many times and it is free all documentation is on the web page.
www.clonezilla.org/
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