[dba-Tech] Copying and entire hard drive

Jon Tydda jon at tydda.plus.com
Thu Apr 10 17:27:18 CDT 2008


Yeah, it's the only Norton product I'll ever recommend :-) 

I think you tell it to clone the drive, rather than back it up or anything,
but it's been a while since I used it.


Jon

-----Original Message-----
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[mailto:dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Jim Lawrence
Sent: 10 April 2008 23:30
To: 'Discussion of Hardware and Software issues'
Subject: Re: [dba-Tech] Copying and entire hard drive

Hi Jon:

So Norton's Ghost copies the MBR as well?... I have a copy on a floppy and
Partition Magic somewhere... will give it a whirl and post the results.

Thanks
Jim

-----Original Message-----
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[mailto:dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Jon Tydda
Sent: Thursday, April 10, 2008 3:12 PM
To: 'Discussion of Hardware and Software issues'
Subject: Re: [dba-Tech] Copying and entire hard drive

Norton Ghost it to another drive, then Partition Magic to resize the
partition. Then defrag it.

With a drive that small, should only take an hour or so.


Jon

-----Original Message-----
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[mailto:dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Jim Lawrence
Sent: 10 April 2008 23:12
To: 'Discussion of Hardware and Software issues'
Subject: [dba-Tech] Copying and entire hard drive

Hi All:

It is time to move my C drive up as 8 GB just does not go as far as it use
to (It can now barely say 'Hello World'). It is easy to shadow copy the
whole drive and write it back to a hard drive... have been doing that to the
'other/RAID' drives for years but now this is the master drive.

What is the best way to copy the MBR off the master drive... which is not
usually backed up (the drive is dual boot.)

TIA
Jim

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