Disk copy Alternative

[montroze]

Can anyone suggest a program other then Norton's Ghost? That they have tried out.

[scoutt]

there is one called DiskCopy I believe, never tried it though.

what is wrong with Ghost?

[kevin]

I have DriveCopy by a company called Powerquest (http://www.powerquest.com/drivecopy/) . Has always worked OK for me when I needed to use it, which hasnt been all that often.

[scoutt]

ah ha tha twas it, it wasn't DiskCopy, it was DriveCopy, thanks Kevin

[kevin]

Originally posted by scoutt
ah ha tha twas it, it wasn't DiskCopy, it was DriveCopy, thanks Kevin

would you get out of my closet already, the noises you make in there are really starting to bug me :P

[montroze]

Originally posted by scoutt

what is wrong with Ghost?

1st attempt I got a GPFault error and it stopped at 90%, fixed that up and the next try I also got to 90% and got a Fatal Exception error 06 (pertaining to mcafee or NortonAV, blasted NortonAV, cleaned it out of the registry and all folders etc. last try yesterday I was happy to hit 91% it was getting very close...then at 93% my computer re-booted, no error message at all. I have ran scanreg, virus programs, spyware checkers, trogan scanned...all came up clean.

[scoutt]

well you know if you do a disk copy then you have to be in dos (just load from a boot disk.) and not load windows.

[montroze]

Did you mean booting up to gdisk? I did try the ghostpe after a reboot into Dos mode...made it to 95% with 2½ minutes left.Another couple hours wasted...no demo's of drivecopy.

[scoutt]

very strange. I did 4 ghost disk to disk's friday with no problems.

I used a win98 boot and went to the a prompt, then stuck teh ghost disk in and type ghost and it ran just fine. couple hours?? man I did a 40gig in 20 minutes.

[montroze]

Wow...this is on my older computer and its cruising at 450Mhz lol, ghosting 12g to a 40g...thats how slow it is, I think the max I seen was around 130Mb/minute but it really starts out slow, around 30Mb for quit awhile

[Ian]

I used to use a disk transfer program, but for the last 4 HDD's I have had to replace, Here was my proceedure.
After fdisk and formatting new drive etc, put it in as slave. Open two windows explorer windows on the same screen, select all files exept your windows swap file and copy from one drive to the next. Once completed, open a dos prompt box, type "sys d:" (where "d" is your new drive). This makes your new drive bootable. Turn off system, take out old drive, put new drive as master, turn on system, boot it up and give it a good defrag. Done!!
The only hitch is to uninstall any AV program you have as they do not transfer well and install it again once you have your new drive running as C:. No times have I encountered any registry or transfer errors. I would suggest you give it a go, just make sure you keep your old drive and data files until you are sure the new one is 100%.

[montroze]

Thanks Ian, I will give that a shot, yeah some of those AV programs are hard to get cleared right off...mcafee was the worst one that I had to manually uninstall. Another fine product to try and eliminate was quicktime.