[dba-Tech] Copying and entire hard drive

I'm using Acronis True Image home. copies the MBR as well with any backup of 
the sys drive.

Lembit

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jon Tydda" <jon at tydda.plus.com>
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Subject: Re: [dba-Tech] Copying and entire hard drive


> 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-----
> From: dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com
> [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
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> 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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