re: Hard Drive Cloning: Need a cloning program? Wednesday, June 1, 2005 at 1:48 am Windows 98 Annoyances Discussion Forum Posted by gewg_ (4444 messages posted) |new hard drive. |Should I use a program of some sort |to run the functions of transfering the files from the old to the new |Cloning program... Ghost program? | Bill (Single_Tasker) The problem with cloning is that you bring along all the cruft that has accumulated over the years. A fresh install of the OS is almost always preferable. The only exception I can think of is when you don't have install disks for a must-have app. If you have a fresh install and need a high reliability system, clone that drive before it is ever used and put it aside as a spare. Cloning utilities: Aloha Bob, TrueImage, DFSee, Ghost, PCsync. techtvvault--Data_Transfer_Software XXCOPY is freeware. It can clone; it's also a super XCOPY utility. So what's wrong with drag & drop? Actually this seems like an ideal time to make backups on optical disks. CD burners come with backup software that makes this easy. Reload your hard disk from the CDs with only the data/media files that you will use a lot. Do more transferring as you find the need/time. Once you recover the data, you can format the old HDD and use it as a swap partition. (Really speeds things up.) Written in response to: Hard Drive Cloning: Need a cloning program? (Single_Tasker: Tuesday, May 31, 2005 at 6:51 pm) Responses to this message: New Hard Drive is in! But I have questions (Single_Tasker: Saturday, June 4, 2005 at 9:25 pm) All messages in this thread [show all] vmm32.vxd Need help with hard drive swap (Single_Tasker: Sat, May 28, 2005, 9:09 am) re: vmm32.vxd Need help with hard drive swap (Don: Sun, May 29, 2005, 3:19 am) re: vmm32.vxd Need help with hard drive swap (Single_Tasker: Sun, May 29, 2005, 10:03 pm) re: vmm32.vxd - New Problems Now (Single_Tasker: Mon, May 30, 2005, 1:33 pm) re: vmm32.vxd - New Problems Now (gewg_: Mon, May 30, 2005, 2:11 pm) Hard Drive Cloning: Need a cloning program? (Single_Tasker: Tue, May 31, 2005, 6:51 pm) re: Hard Drive Cloning: Need a cloning program? (gewg_: Wed, Jun 1, 2005, 1:48 am) New Hard Drive is in! But I have questions (Single_Tasker: Sat, Jun 4, 2005, 9:25 pm) re: New Hard Drive is in! But I have questions (gewg_: Sat, Jun 4, 2005, 11:44 pm) re: New Hard Drive is in! But I have questions (Single_Tasker: Fri, Jun 10, 2005, 6:41 pm) Reply or follow-up to this message Search this forum Start a new thread on a different subject Report abuse of the forum Return to the Windows 98 Discussion Forum