Newsgroup: it.comp.os.win.xp
Titolo: any good "cloning" software available out there?

I'm looking to clone a hard drive on a Windows 2000 Professional
system.  The goal is to be able to boot up from the new, cloned hard
disk and see everything as if I were on the original hard disk.
Does anyone know a reliable clone software that you would recommend to
do this?  Also, about how long would it take to clone a hard drive
about 20 GB?  Thanks.

*Michelle* bifonchio':
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Acronis True Image Home (v.10 or later) is perfect for your use.
Good work!
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Are you sure?  Because yesterday, I saw at the store, the Acronis True
Image Home version at the store, but on the box,
it says nothing about cloning PC's.
I was told Acronis True Image Server for Windows will solve my
problem, but it costs $699.

*Michelle* bifonchio':
||| Acronis True Image Home (v.10 or later) is perfect for your use.
||| Good work!
|||
||
|| Are you sure?
yes
|| Because yesterday, I saw at the store, the Acronis
|| True Image Home version at the store, but on the box,
|| it says nothing about cloning PC's.
True Image works for ghost pc or CLONING pc (in added HD)
|| I was told Acronis True Image Server for Windows will solve my
|| problem, but it costs $699.
NO! Acronis Server isn't for you!!! the good choice is Acronis True image 
HOME.
Choice it!
ciao
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 Choice it!
Great news.  Thank you.
Here's my question for Acronis True Image Home 11:
If I install this software onto a Windows XP system, and clone a disk
that has a Windows 2000 OS, will this be OK?
Or do I need to install this software onto a Windows 2000 system
first, in order to clone another disk that has a Windows 2000 OS?

*Michelle* bifonchio':
||| NO! Acronis Server isn't for you!!! the good choice is Acronis True
||| image HOME.
||| Choice it!
||
|| Great news.  Thank you.
||
|| Here's my question for Acronis True Image Home 11:
||
|| If I install this software onto a Windows XP system, and clone a disk
|| that has a Windows 2000 OS, will this be OK?
If you install into XP, you clone that SO (XP)
|| Or do I need to install this software onto a Windows 2000 system
|| first, in order to clone another disk that has a Windows 2000 OS?
Yes, you must install into a your SO to clone.
How you work:
Shut down your pc.
Added a new har disk (not important the capability, but not loss)
start your pc
go to panel control
admin's tools
menage hd
click into new disc and choose "create new partition"
Format your new hd
..at end start true image
choose manage hd
choose clone disc (in manual work)
choose HD to be cloned (usually C)
choose HD to destination (new hd added)
choose DELETE partition in DESTINATION DISC (if not deleted not continue)
choose KEEP DATA (for OLD DISC, not destroyed data!!)
choose PROPORTIONAL METHOD
and start work
Your pc will reboot and work 20 minutes and shut down
Now, you change HD and put new HD and remove the old disc. (attention in 
master/slave, choose identical in old disc)
The pc run as a old disc. But, new disc is fast than older, the pc is more 
fast, and you have also a bigger capacity, if the new disc is larger than 
old disc.
Good work
Ciao
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>old disc.
disc?

I've never cloned a hard drive before.  But is this what will happen
after it's done:
I take the cloned hard drive that is in Windows 2000 OS.  Go to the
computer that had the orinigal Windows 2000 hard drive.  Unplug that
hard drive.  Install the newly cloned hard drive.  Boot up that PC.
Everything will boot up, and all the data from the old will be there.
So if one day the original Windows 2000 hard drive crashed, I can use
this cloned hard drive and boot up, and it will be running just like
before the crash, right?  (I understand that any newly-added data onto
the original Windows 2000 hard drive will not be on the cloned hard
drive).
In other words, the cloned hard drive will be bootable, with an exact
mirror of the old hard drive, right?

*JD* bifonchio':
||| old disc.
||
|| disc?
Quello duro, però :-D
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*Michelle* bifonchio':
|| I've never cloned a hard drive before.  But is this what will happen
|| after it's done:
||
|| I take the cloned hard drive that is in Windows 2000 OS.  Go to the
|| computer that had the orinigal Windows 2000 hard drive.  Unplug that
|| hard drive.  Install the newly cloned hard drive.  Boot up that PC.
||
|| Everything will boot up, and all the data from the old will be there.
|| So if one day the original Windows 2000 hard drive crashed, I can use
|| this cloned hard drive and boot up, and it will be running just like
|| before the crash, right?
Yes
||  (I understand that any newly-added data
|| onto the original Windows 2000 hard drive will not be on the cloned
|| hard drive).
Right
|| In other words, the cloned hard drive will be bootable, with an exact
|| mirror of the old hard drive, right?
Right
You can clone HD every you want.
It's best solution for your pc.
good work
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 Quello duro, perň :-D
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