Cloning a hard drive using freeware?

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John Latter wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Is there any freeware (and info) that will enable me to clone a hard
> drive?
>
> My existing HDD is starting to fail. Windows hasn't reported any
> errors yet but the drive (5400rpm) fails Seagates diagnistics (bad
> sectors & stuff). The drive has XP preloaded onto the end of it.
>
> I've got a new Hitachi 7200rpm drive and borrowed a generic windows xp
> oem disc which installed ok. SP2 installed ok but after downloading
> all relevant updates one instance of svchost.exe continuously accesses
> the disc.
>
> I've posted on microsoft newsgroups but haven't had any luck in fixing
> whatever the problem might be. Consequently, I'm now thinking of
> cloning the original HDD & trusting to luck that there aren't any bad
> sectors in the region where XP has been preinstalled.
>
> I'm not very knowledgable about these things so any advice would be
> very welcome!
>

Go to the Hitachi site and download their utility for copying one drive
to another. If it's a retail drive it might have come with this utility
on a CD or floppy.

--
Rock
MS MVP Windows - Shell/User

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I don't know where you work but we use a hardware based disk cloner and
I will clone an employees hard drive if they ask they just bring in
both drives and it takes about 4 minutes. I can also make the C drive
the full size of the new hard drive if they want or leave it at the
original size. This is handy for people who have smaller hard drives.

never hurts to ask. My company also offers free Anti virus software as
well as MS office for a very good price

Wayne

John Latter wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Is there any freeware (and info) that will enable me to clone a hard
> drive?
>
> My existing HDD is starting to fail. Windows hasn't reported any
> errors yet but the drive (5400rpm) fails Seagates diagnistics (bad
> sectors & stuff). The drive has XP preloaded onto the end of it.
>
> I've got a new Hitachi 7200rpm drive and borrowed a generic windows xp
> oem disc which installed ok. SP2 installed ok but after downloading
> all relevant updates one instance of svchost.exe continuously accesses
> the disc.
>
> I've posted on microsoft newsgroups but haven't had any luck in fixing
> whatever the problem might be. Consequently, I'm now thinking of
> cloning the original HDD & trusting to luck that there aren't any bad
> sectors in the region where XP has been preinstalled.
>
> I'm not very knowledgable about these things so any advice would be
> very welcome!

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On Tue, 28 Jun 2005 23:49:48 -0700, Rock <rock@mail.nospam.net> wrote:

>John Latter wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> Is there any freeware (and info) that will enable me to clone a hard
>> drive?
>>
>> My existing HDD is starting to fail. Windows hasn't reported any
>> errors yet but the drive (5400rpm) fails Seagates diagnistics (bad
>> sectors & stuff). The drive has XP preloaded onto the end of it.
>>
>> I've got a new Hitachi 7200rpm drive and borrowed a generic windows xp
>> oem disc which installed ok. SP2 installed ok but after downloading
>> all relevant updates one instance of svchost.exe continuously accesses
>> the disc.
>>
>> I've posted on microsoft newsgroups but haven't had any luck in fixing
>> whatever the problem might be. Consequently, I'm now thinking of
>> cloning the original HDD & trusting to luck that there aren't any bad
>> sectors in the region where XP has been preinstalled.
>>
>> I'm not very knowledgable about these things so any advice would be
>> very welcome!
>>
>
>Go to the Hitachi site and download their utility for copying one drive
>to another. If it's a retail drive it might have come with this utility
>on a CD or floppy.

Thanks Rock, I'll have to have a look later - hope the utility allows
Seagate -> Hitachi transfers though.

--

John Latter

Model of an Internal Evolutionary Mechanism (based on an extension to homeostasis) linking Stationary-Phase Mutations to the Baldwin Effect.
http://members.aol.com/jorolat/TEM.html

'Where Darwin meets Lamarck?' Discussion Egroup
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/evomech

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Hi,

Usually you would use the tool from the maker of the target (new) drive, the
source (old) drive should not matter if you do.

--
Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP
http://mvp.support.microsoft.com/
Associate Expert - WindowsXP Expert Zone
www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/expertzone
Windows help - www.rickrogers.org

"John Latter" <jorolat@tiscali.co.uk> wrote in message
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> On Tue, 28 Jun 2005 23:49:48 -0700, Rock <rock@mail.nospam.net> wrote:
>
>>John Latter wrote:
>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> Is there any freeware (and info) that will enable me to clone a hard
>>> drive?
>>>
>>> My existing HDD is starting to fail. Windows hasn't reported any
>>> errors yet but the drive (5400rpm) fails Seagates diagnistics (bad
>>> sectors & stuff). The drive has XP preloaded onto the end of it.
>>>
>>> I've got a new Hitachi 7200rpm drive and borrowed a generic windows xp
>>> oem disc which installed ok. SP2 installed ok but after downloading
>>> all relevant updates one instance of svchost.exe continuously accesses
>>> the disc.
>>>
>>> I've posted on microsoft newsgroups but haven't had any luck in fixing
>>> whatever the problem might be. Consequently, I'm now thinking of
>>> cloning the original HDD & trusting to luck that there aren't any bad
>>> sectors in the region where XP has been preinstalled.
>>>
>>> I'm not very knowledgable about these things so any advice would be
>>> very welcome!
>>>
>>
>>Go to the Hitachi site and download their utility for copying one drive
>>to another. If it's a retail drive it might have come with this utility
>>on a CD or floppy.
>
> Thanks Rock, I'll have to have a look later - hope the utility allows
> Seagate -> Hitachi transfers though.
>
> --
>
> John Latter
>
> Model of an Internal Evolutionary Mechanism (based on an extension to
> homeostasis) linking Stationary-Phase Mutations to the Baldwin Effect.
> http://members.aol.com/jorolat/TEM.html
>
> 'Where Darwin meets Lamarck?' Discussion Egroup
> http://groups.yahoo.com/group/evomech

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Refer to this on how to see what services are utilizing svchost.
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=314056

Most cloning software won't allow copying of a single partition, only the
entire hard drive. You indicated the XP partition near the end of the hard
drive space as the source, rather than the entire hard drive. Most cloning
software will reject hard drive sources with sector problems. So, some of
the replies I've seen to date are not applicable.
"John Latter" <jorolat@tiscali.co.uk> wrote in message
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> Hi,
>
> Is there any freeware (and info) that will enable me to clone a hard
> drive?
>
> My existing HDD is starting to fail. Windows hasn't reported any
> errors yet but the drive (5400rpm) fails Seagates diagnistics (bad
> sectors & stuff). The drive has XP preloaded onto the end of it.
>
> I've got a new Hitachi 7200rpm drive and borrowed a generic windows xp
> oem disc which installed ok. SP2 installed ok but after downloading
> all relevant updates one instance of svchost.exe continuously accesses
> the disc.
>
> I've posted on microsoft newsgroups but haven't had any luck in fixing
> whatever the problem might be. Consequently, I'm now thinking of
> cloning the original HDD & trusting to luck that there aren't any bad
> sectors in the region where XP has been preinstalled.
>
> I'm not very knowledgable about these things so any advice would be
> very welcome!
>
> --
>
> John Latter
>
> Model of an Internal Evolutionary Mechanism (based on an extension to
homeostasis) linking Stationary-Phase Mutations to the Baldwin Effect.
> http://members.aol.com/jorolat/TEM.html
>
> 'Where Darwin meets Lamarck?' Discussion Egroup
> http://groups.yahoo.com/group/evomech

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In news:grc4c1p9bcjst0lcjlecc50j7014jgisn8@4ax.com,
John Latter <jorolat@tiscali.co.uk> had this to say:

My reply is at the bottom of your sent message:


> Is there any freeware (and info) that will enable me to clone a hard
> drive?

clone maxx :
http://www.pcinspector.de/clone-maxx/uk/welcome.htm

Galen
--

"But there are always some lunatics about. It would be a dull world
without them."

Sherlock Holmes

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http://www.pcstats.com/articleview.cfm?articleid=418&pa...
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That's just like my opinion, Man........


"John Latter" wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Is there any freeware (and info) that will enable me to clone a hard
> drive?
>
> My existing HDD is starting to fail. Windows hasn't reported any
> errors yet but the drive (5400rpm) fails Seagates diagnistics (bad
> sectors & stuff). The drive has XP preloaded onto the end of it.
>
> I've got a new Hitachi 7200rpm drive and borrowed a generic windows xp
> oem disc which installed ok. SP2 installed ok but after downloading
> all relevant updates one instance of svchost.exe continuously accesses
> the disc.
>
> I've posted on microsoft newsgroups but haven't had any luck in fixing
> whatever the problem might be. Consequently, I'm now thinking of
> cloning the original HDD & trusting to luck that there aren't any bad
> sectors in the region where XP has been preinstalled.
>
> I'm not very knowledgable about these things so any advice would be
> very welcome!
>
> --
>
> John Latter
>
> Model of an Internal Evolutionary Mechanism (based on an extension to homeostasis) linking Stationary-Phase Mutations to the Baldwin Effect.
> http://members.aol.com/jorolat/TEM.html
>
> 'Where Darwin meets Lamarck?' Discussion Egroup
> http://groups.yahoo.com/group/evomech
>

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On Wed, 29 Jun 2005 06:10:14 -0400, "Rick \"Nutcase\" Rogers"
<rick@mvps.org> wrote:

>Hi,
>
>Usually you would use the tool from the maker of the target (new) drive, the
>source (old) drive should not matter if you do.

I'll have a look at the hitachi website - tks Rick!

--

John Latter

Model of an Internal Evolutionary Mechanism (based on an extension to homeostasis) linking Stationary-Phase Mutations to the Baldwin Effect.
http://members.aol.com/jorolat/TEM.html

'Where Darwin meets Lamarck?' Discussion Egroup
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/evomech

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On Wed, 29 Jun 2005 07:38:12 -0500, "wayne" <nope@nowhere.com> wrote:

>I don't know where you work but we use a hardware based disk cloner and
>I will clone an employees hard drive if they ask they just bring in
>both drives and it takes about 4 minutes. I can also make the C drive
>the full size of the new hard drive if they want or leave it at the
>original size. This is handy for people who have smaller hard drives.
>
>never hurts to ask. My company also offers free Anti virus software as
>well as MS office for a very good price
>
>Wayne


Sounds good Wayne but I'm just a single user on a home computer &
don't have access to stuff like hardware based disk cloner  

Jorolat

>John Latter wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> Is there any freeware (and info) that will enable me to clone a hard
>> drive?
>>
>> My existing HDD is starting to fail. Windows hasn't reported any
>> errors yet but the drive (5400rpm) fails Seagates diagnistics (bad
>> sectors & stuff). The drive has XP preloaded onto the end of it.
>>
>> I've got a new Hitachi 7200rpm drive and borrowed a generic windows xp
>> oem disc which installed ok. SP2 installed ok but after downloading
>> all relevant updates one instance of svchost.exe continuously accesses
>> the disc.
>>
>> I've posted on microsoft newsgroups but haven't had any luck in fixing
>> whatever the problem might be. Consequently, I'm now thinking of
>> cloning the original HDD & trusting to luck that there aren't any bad
>> sectors in the region where XP has been preinstalled.
>>
>> I'm not very knowledgable about these things so any advice would be
>> very welcome!

--

John Latter

Model of an Internal Evolutionary Mechanism (based on an extension to homeostasis) linking Stationary-Phase Mutations to the Baldwin Effect.
http://members.aol.com/jorolat/TEM.html

'Where Darwin meets Lamarck?' Discussion Egroup
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/evomech

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On Wed, 29 Jun 2005 10:47:10 -0700, uggabugga
<uggabugga@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:

>http://www.pcstats.com/articleview.cfm?articleid=418&pa...

Thanks for the link uggabugga!

--

John Latter

Model of an Internal Evolutionary Mechanism (based on an extension to homeostasis) linking Stationary-Phase Mutations to the Baldwin Effect.
http://members.aol.com/jorolat/TEM.html

'Where Darwin meets Lamarck?' Discussion Egroup
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/evomech

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On Wed, 29 Jun 2005 08:59:44 -0500, "Lil' Dave"
<spamyourself@virus.net> wrote:

>Refer to this on how to see what services are utilizing svchost.
>http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=314056
>
>Most cloning software won't allow copying of a single partition, only the
>entire hard drive. You indicated the XP partition near the end of the hard
>drive space as the source, rather than the entire hard drive. Most cloning
>software will reject hard drive sources with sector problems. So, some of
>the replies I've seen to date are not applicable.
>"John Latter" <jorolat@tiscali.co.uk> wrote in message
>news:grc4c1p9bcjst0lcjlecc50j7014jgisn8@4ax.com...
>> Hi,
>>
>> Is there any freeware (and info) that will enable me to clone a hard
>> drive?
>>
>> My existing HDD is starting to fail. Windows hasn't reported any
>> errors yet but the drive (5400rpm) fails Seagates diagnistics (bad
>> sectors & stuff). The drive has XP preloaded onto the end of it.
>>
>> I've got a new Hitachi 7200rpm drive and borrowed a generic windows xp
>> oem disc which installed ok. SP2 installed ok but after downloading
>> all relevant updates one instance of svchost.exe continuously accesses
>> the disc.
>>
>> I've posted on microsoft newsgroups but haven't had any luck in fixing
>> whatever the problem might be. Consequently, I'm now thinking of
>> cloning the original HDD & trusting to luck that there aren't any bad
>> sectors in the region where XP has been preinstalled.
>>
>> I'm not very knowledgable about these things so any advice would be
>> very welcome!
>>
>> --
>>
>> John Latter
>>
>> Model of an Internal Evolutionary Mechanism (based on an extension to
>homeostasis) linking Stationary-Phase Mutations to the Baldwin Effect.
>> http://members.aol.com/jorolat/TEM.html
>>
>> 'Where Darwin meets Lamarck?' Discussion Egroup
>> http://groups.yahoo.com/group/evomech
>

Ok Dave - and thankyou for the link!

--

John Latter

Model of an Internal Evolutionary Mechanism (based on an extension to homeostasis) linking Stationary-Phase Mutations to the Baldwin Effect.
http://members.aol.com/jorolat/TEM.html

'Where Darwin meets Lamarck?' Discussion Egroup
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/evomech