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soup20000   03-20-2001 at 02:18:51 AM

Hey guys I know this has nothing to do with CPU's but this place has the most posts/visits and i need help fast. I need to make a copy of my Hard drive and Put it on my new Hard drive. In windows it does not copy everything... and in Dos I dont know how to copy all hidden / system / tree or dir files. I need this new drive to boot as if nothing happened. Thanks.

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Anonymous   03-20-2001 at 04:47:22 AM
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If you have a third hard drive(an extra computer), you can plug all three into one computer and boot from the third drive. This will allow you to completely copy all of the stuff from the first hard drive to the second hard drive.

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Anonymous   03-20-2001 at 04:50:33 AM
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Windows can copy all of the files

To copy them all Hidden and all....

Go in windows explorer..... and go TOOLS and FOLDER OPTIONS then go VIEW and check off show hidden/system files

then all will be there

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soup20000   03-20-2001 at 04:53:17 AM
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Thanks guys but I did both... :)... it did not work.

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Anonymous   03-20-2001 at 05:04:39 AM
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U tried windows thing thing i suggest huh

well in dos..

the command is

copy *.*

say u want all of c to d

copy c:\*.* d:\

i think

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Anonymous   03-20-2001 at 05:06:11 AM
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wait a sec

windows copying all of the files WIll work

why won't it
u said u tried both and nope

it should work

will work

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soup20000   03-20-2001 at 06:55:44 AM
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lol, i wish it would work... Trust me its the first thing i did. I connected hte old/new drive to my duron system and did a copy and it worked... but when i make the new drive master in the other computer it does not boot. I made a boot disk and then i get into a: then go to c:\windows and type "win" and get something like no "himem.sys" file. So it is not copying everything. Oh, and in DOS i did that copy c:\*.* d:\ and guess what.. it did not copy the Dir's only the files in C:\ (like 20 files but no folders) so I tried xcopy c:\*.* d:\/h/a (i think it was a) and H is for hidden files... and then it said it did not know the "h" command...

soup.

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Crashman   03-20-2001 at 07:02:10 AM
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Go to the drive manufacturers website and download the drive software form them. It's free. It will make a bootable disk that will partition and format your new drive and copy the entire partition from the old drive to the new drive! Maxtor, quantum, WD, IBM, Seagate, and Fujitsu all offer the software for free!

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HolyGrenade   03-20-2001 at 11:10:59 AM
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the copy *.* method wont work. but windows should copy everything.

Why do you need to copy everything from your old hdd to you new one? do you want to do that so you can just use your new hdd as your primary (i.e. boot from it and everything)? If so, first unhide all hidden and system files as tbird suggests. then, copy everything from within windows. and perhaps you need to 'sys' the new drive.

If your the new hdd is D: then just type - sys d:

that should work.


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jlanka   03-20-2001 at 11:20:45 AM
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hmmm... I think if you want to move to a new hard drive SEAMLESSLY, your best bet is to use a utility like Ghost or DriveImage. Using any windows or DOS utility usually won't work due to problems with locked files like the registry, etc. Of course YMMV and you might get lucky.

BTW - just FYI the DOS command would be:

xcopy C:\ D:\ /s /e (still won't do what you're trying to accomplish, though)

Good luck.

Jeff

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HolyGrenade   03-20-2001 at 11:33:28 AM
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Oh yeah! ghost is cool.


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Anonymous   03-20-2001 at 01:22:18 PM
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Find your self a copy of ghost from some where that will do all you need

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khha4113   03-20-2001 at 09:17:22 PM
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<b>Oh yeah! ghost is cool.</b>
Absolutely Cool! I tried it and within 10 min I had a full Windows OS functions perfectly (Dualboot Win2000 and Win98).

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