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Drive Imaging Software

Started by Telamon Oct 23, 2005 at 7:26 PM 4 replies 400+ views

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Oct 23, 2005 at 7:26 PM

My notebook hard drive is acting up, so I bought a new HD and I'm trying to make a disk image of the old one and copy it to the new one. The tricky part is that I have a Dell Inspiron 8200 which has a BIOS utility partition on the main drive and the software I am current using (Ghost 9) doesn't seem to be able to make an image of a partitioned drive (I can image both partitions separately, but can't then copy both those images onto the new disk). Can anyone recommend a solution? I'm really stuck here. Thanks!

_Sigma

Oct 23, 2005 at 7:43 PM

Try Acronis

I have had good results with it.

DukeAtreides076

Oct 23, 2005 at 7:45 PM

Dude you got a Dell!

paulecoyote

Oct 24, 2005 at 9:18 AM

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Original post by Telamon
My notebook hard drive is acting up, so I bought a new HD and I'm trying to make a disk image of the old one and copy it to the new one.

Just a thought, if your old harddrive is "acting up" - may be that's why ghost is having problems with making an image of it?

benryves

Oct 24, 2005 at 9:22 AM

I like WinImage. I have no idea how well it works imaging to the same drive as the OS is running on, though... (I used it to take a direct image of an old 500MB DOS drive a while back through XP without any problems).

ktuluorion

Oct 24, 2005 at 9:41 AM

I bought an 80 gig maxtor hd a while back, and it came with a software called "Maxblast" which was pretty good. I used it with my new 250gig hd to transfer everything over. Perhaps you can get it off of maxtor's site?

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