drive change

[Doug]

On 9/28/2010 6:08 PM, Bill Wright wrote:
> how can i change hard drives to another and retain o/s and data
>
MIRAY.DE HDCLONE.  Free version and various pay versions with
greater capability. Latest version as of early August 2010 is 3.9.
Self-booting CD, which you download in .iso form and burn yourself.

I used this to copy a laptop hd to a large flash-drive, and then
copied the flash drive to a much bigger drive I replaced in the
laptop.  It copied WinXP plus 2 Linux partitions perfectly.
But see note, below.

(I bought the flash-drive before the prices became ridiculous.)

But if you are just copying one drive to a bigger one in a
desktop machine, it should work with no problem, or if you have
an external hd that you can plug in by usb or something, that will
work also.

Note: Do not let it make any "improvements" as you go.  Do a strict
one-to-one copy, and ignore suggestions it makes! The so-called
improvements will make the new drive unbootable. You've been warned!

--doug

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