Cloning Harddrive

This is to share some hard learned, HDD cloning experience with you guys, in hopes to save you some trouble, personally for WinXP I had always used Ghost 2002 and had gotten seemingly good results cloning your OP/SYS HDD to a new HDD, 2002 always seemed the easiest as 2003 had additional HDD marking features I didn't want to use, which could cause the HDD to have to be Microsoft Reactivated.

Ghost always would clone the entire disk and the destination disk needed to be larger than the source disk or Ghost wouldn't do anything, getting into SATA HDDs seems to bring in new troubles that had to be set to get around, but thats really not what this post is about.

Theres a much better way to clone your HDD, Aronis True Image is one jam up piece of software, it will do it all, including expanding the clone to the new HDD size automatically, once in a while a company makes a really good product and this is one of those products.

Cloning used to be a 2 part effort when the destination disk was larger than the source disk, there was always unallocated space and I would use Partition Magic 8 to gain access to that unallocated space, Acronis True Image takes care of all that in the initial cloning process.

This probably means nothing to any of you, but I still thought I'd share it just in case. Ryan

thanks for the info, i might pick that software up today.

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Nice to see the chimp is back.[/flicks poop]

I've never had an issue with unused space with going to a different sized HDD, but most of our ghosting is putting images on servers to be restored later.

Or you can just use Gparted from the Ubuntu install CD [/7 Days to the Gusty Gibbon and I'm not talking last nights curry]