My brother has an old system with a 13GB Seagate drive which is showing
some occassional bad sector warnings. It came with an EM copy of
Windows 98 on a partition, and he doesn't have a full Windows CD to
install from (just a "restore" CD).
I have a spare 13GB drive, but for all the hardware knowledge I have
I've never cloned a drive before. Can anyone recommend a small program
that I can run from boot floppy which will clone everything including
the partition structure across to this spare drive? It would be good if
it can format the spare drive to FAT32 as well, but I can do that
separately if necessary.
TIA

Cuzman <cuzNSPAM@supanet.comwrote

My brother has an old system with a 13GB Seagate drive which is showing some
occassional bad sector warnings. It came with an EM copy of Windows 98 on a
partition, and he doesn't have a full Windows CD to install from (just a
"restore" CD).

I have a spare 13GB drive, but for all the hardware knowledge I have I've
never cloned a drive before.

Its not necessarily a very good idea to clone a drive that has
bad sectors, you are basically copying the bad sectors if the
cloner doesnt just give up on the first bad sector.

Can anyone recommend a small program that I can run from boot floppy which
will clone everything including the partition structure across to this spare
drive?

Those bad sectors will be a problem if they are still present.

If not, the cheapest approach is ghost thats included in
systemworks pro 2003 thats available off ebay for peanuts.
Must be systemworks pro, ghost isnt included in systemworks.

It would be good if it can format the spare drive to FAT32 as well, but I can
do that separately if necessary.

The clone operation copys the formatting at the time it clones.

r-studio can do the trick

Just make sure the target partition is exactly the same size as the source
partition; otherwise, Ghost will bomb.

"Rod Speed" <rod_speed@yahoo.comwrote in message
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Cuzman <cuzNSPAM@supanet.comwrote
>
>My brother has an old system with a 13GB Seagate drive which is showing
>some occassional bad sector warnings. It came with an EM copy of
>Windows 98 on a partition, and he doesn't have a full Windows CD to
>install from (just a "restore" CD).
>
>I have a spare 13GB drive, but for all the hardware knowledge I have I've
>never cloned a drive before.
>
Its not necessarily a very good idea to clone a drive that has
bad sectors, you are basically copying the bad sectors if the
cloner doesnt just give up on the first bad sector.
>
>Can anyone recommend a small program that I can run from boot floppy
>which will clone everything including the partition structure across to
>this spare drive?
>
Those bad sectors will be a problem if they are still present.

If not, the cheapest approach is ghost thats included in
systemworks pro 2003 thats available off ebay for peanuts.
Must be systemworks pro, ghost isnt included in systemworks.
>
>It would be good if it can format the spare drive to FAT32 as well, but I
>can do that separately if necessary.
>
The clone operation copys the formatting at the time it clones.

Just make sure the target partition is exactly the same size as the source
partition; otherwise, Ghost will bomb.
Nonsense.

Andy <kanadaiy@telus.netwrote

Just make sure the target partition is exactly the same size as the source
partition; otherwise, Ghost will bomb.

Bull**** with 2003.

Rod Speed <rod_speed@yahoo.comwrote
>Cuzman <cuzNSPAM@supanet.comwrote

My brother has an old system with a 13GB Seagate drive which is
showing some occassional bad sector warnings. It came with an EM
copy of Windows 98 on a partition, and he doesn't have a full
Windows CD to install from (just a "restore" CD).
>>
I have a spare 13GB drive, but for all the hardware knowledge I
have I've never cloned a drive before.
>>
>Its not necessarily a very good idea to clone a drive that has
>bad sectors, you are basically copying the bad sectors if the
>cloner doesnt just give up on the first bad sector.
>>
Can anyone recommend a small program that I can run from boot floppy
which will clone everything including the partition structure
across to this spare drive?
>>
>Those bad sectors will be a problem if they are still present.
>>
>If not, the cheapest approach is ghost thats included in
>systemworks pro 2003 thats available off ebay for peanuts.
>Must be systemworks pro, ghost isnt included in systemworks.
>>
It would be good if it can format the spare drive to FAT32 as well,
but I can do that separately if necessary.
>>
>The clone operation copys the formatting at the time it clones.

I use 2004.

"Rod Speed" <rod_speed@yahoo.comwrote in message
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Andy <kanadaiy@telus.netwrote
>
>Just make sure the target partition is exactly the same size as the
>source partition; otherwise, Ghost will bomb.
>
Bull**** with 2003.
>
>
>Rod Speed <rod_speed@yahoo.comwrote
Cuzman <cuzNSPAM@supanet.comwrote

My brother has an old system with a 13GB Seagate drive which is
showing some occassional bad sector warnings. It came with an EM
copy of Windows 98 on a partition, and he doesn't have a full
Windows CD to install from (just a "restore" CD).

I have a spare 13GB drive, but for all the hardware knowledge I
have I've never cloned a drive before.

Its not necessarily a very good idea to clone a drive that has
bad sectors, you are basically copying the bad sectors if the
cloner doesnt just give up on the first bad sector.

Can anyone recommend a small program that I can run from boot floppy
which will clone everything including the partition structure
across to this spare drive?

Those bad sectors will be a problem if they are still present.

If not, the cheapest approach is ghost thats included in
systemworks pro 2003 thats available off ebay for peanuts.
Must be systemworks pro, ghost isnt included in systemworks.

It would be good if it can format the spare drive to FAT32 as well,
but I can do that separately if necessary.

The clone operation copys the formatting at the time it clones.
--

I was taken aback by the negative reactions to my comment by people I
respect, for I had more than once failed to restore Ghost image files to
target partitions that differed in size from the source partition. So I
decided to get to the bottom of this matter.

I created two partitions, one slightly smaller and one slightly larger than
the source partition, then restored the Ghost image file to both. It worked!
So the objections were well founded. My apologies for giving people a bum
steer.

The question remains why I got different results in the past, and I can come
up with only one explanation. The motherboard in my machine has recently
been replaced due to a faulty disk controller. I assume that the faulty disk
controller on the old motherboard caused the problem. Is this a reasonable
explanation?

Andy

"Rod Speed" <rod_speed@yahoo.comwrote in message
news:3r5t2pFhsf3gU1@individual.net
Andy <kanadaiy@telus.netwrote
>
>Just make sure the target partition is exactly the same size as the
>source partition; otherwise, Ghost will bomb.
>
Bull**** with 2003.
>
>
>Rod Speed <rod_speed@yahoo.comwrote
Cuzman <cuzNSPAM@supanet.comwrote

My brother has an old system with a 13GB Seagate drive which is
showing some occassional bad sector warnings. It came with an EM
copy of Windows 98 on a partition, and he doesn't have a full
Windows CD to install from (just a "restore" CD).

I have a spare 13GB drive, but for all the hardware knowledge I
have I've never cloned a drive before.

Its not necessarily a very good idea to clone a drive that has
bad sectors, you are basically copying the bad sectors if the
cloner doesnt just give up on the first bad sector.

Can anyone recommend a small program that I can run from boot floppy
which will clone everything including the partition structure
across to this spare drive?

Those bad sectors will be a problem if they are still present.

If not, the cheapest approach is ghost thats included in
systemworks pro 2003 thats available off ebay for peanuts.
Must be systemworks pro, ghost isnt included in systemworks.

It would be good if it can format the spare drive to FAT32 as well,
but I can do that separately if necessary.

The clone operation copys the formatting at the time it clones.
--

Andy <kanadaiy@telus.netwrote

I was taken aback by the negative reactions to my comment by people I respect,
for I had more than once failed to restore Ghost image files to target
partitions that differed in size from the source partition. So I decided to
get to the bottom of this matter.

I created two partitions, one slightly smaller and one slightly larger than
the source partition, then restored the Ghost image file to both. It worked!
So the objections were well founded. My apologies for giving people a bum
steer.

The question remains why I got different results in the past,

Some of the ghosts can be quite buggy, particularly ghost 9.

Not sure what you mean by ghost 2004.

and I can come up with only one explanation. The motherboard in my machine has
recently been replaced due to a faulty disk controller. I assume that the
faulty disk controller on the old motherboard caused the problem. Is this a
reasonable explanation?

Yes, and the failure may not have had anything to do
with the relative partition sized, it may just have failed
and the size difference was just a coincidence.

"Rod Speed" <rod_speed@yahoo.comwrote in message
news:3r5t2pFhsf3gU1@individual.net
>Andy <kanadaiy@telus.netwrote
>>
Just make sure the target partition is exactly the same size as the
source partition; otherwise, Ghost will bomb.
>>
>Bull**** with 2003.
>>
>>
Rod Speed <rod_speed@yahoo.comwrote
Cuzman <cuzNSPAM@supanet.comwrote
>>
My brother has an old system with a 13GB Seagate drive which is
showing some occassional bad sector warnings. It came with an EM
copy of Windows 98 on a partition, and he doesn't have a full
Windows CD to install from (just a "restore" CD).

I have a spare 13GB drive, but for all the hardware knowledge I
have I've never cloned a drive before.

Its not necessarily a very good idea to clone a drive that has
bad sectors, you are basically copying the bad sectors if the
cloner doesnt just give up on the first bad sector.

Can anyone recommend a small program that I can run from boot
floppy which will clone everything including the partition
structure across to this spare drive?

Those bad sectors will be a problem if they are still present.

If not, the cheapest approach is ghost thats included in
systemworks pro 2003 thats available off ebay for peanuts.
Must be systemworks pro, ghost isnt included in systemworks.

It would be good if it can format the spare drive to FAT32 as
well, but I can do that separately if necessary.

The clone operation copys the formatting at the time it clones.

"Rod Speed" <rod_speed@yahoo.comwrote in message
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Andy <kanadaiy@telus.netwrote
>
>I was taken aback by the negative reactions to my comment by people I
>respect, for I had more than once failed to restore Ghost image files to
>target partitions that differed in size from the source partition. So I
>decided to get to the bottom of this matter.
>
>I created two partitions, one slightly smaller and one slightly larger
>than the source partition, then restored the Ghost image file to both. It
>worked! So the objections were well founded. My apologies for giving
>people a bum steer.
>
>The question remains why I got different results in the past,
>
Some of the ghosts can be quite buggy, particularly ghost 9.

Not sure what you mean by ghost 2004.

I meant Ghost contained in Norton SystemWorks 2004.

>
>and I can come up with only one explanation. The motherboard in my
>machine has recently been replaced due to a faulty disk controller. I
>assume that the faulty disk controller on the old motherboard caused the
>problem. Is this a reasonable explanation?
>
Yes, and the failure may not have had anything to do
with the relative partition sized, it may just have failed
and the size difference was just a coincidence.

Thanks for edifying this technoklutz.

Andy

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