My boss wants to have a new hard disk and get rid of the old one. He is so lazy that he does not to do backup. He just wants to be able to use everything he had on the new disk,including os, applications, datafiles. I heard something about Ghost software. Is it able to do that or how i should do with it?
Anyone comes to rescue me? please! http://www.PCGuide.com/ubb/frown.gif

Yes.....you can "clone" one hard drive to another one using several different programs, including Norton Ghost. You should be very familiar with how to partition, format and use the ghost software before attempting this however.

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"As hard as a rock & dumb as a brick"...Windows CEMeNT

Many hard drives ship with EZ-Drive or its equivalent, or it can be downloaded for free from the manufacturer's web site. It takes care of the partitioning and formatting of the new drive and some versions will copy the old drive contents to the new one. EZ-Drive can also install a drive overlay, if necessary, to overcome BIOS hard drive size limitations.

Ghost can do the same, except for applying a drive overlay. A limited capability version is supplied with some motherboard. The Personal Edition or higher of Ghost can also save and restore compressed partition images, which is one of my backup methods.


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reido@my-deja.com

Friends don't let friends install Windows ME

I downloaded ImageCast3. I read its documents and it says it can do disk to disk copy. I wonder it means it can only copy the files and applications or it can make a totally same system from one disk to the other one. No matter what, I have to try it tomorrow. I am a little bit nervous because the guy I work for simply is too lazy to back up. I am going to take my chance. Any suggestion on how to reduce the risk?
About partitioning, I will be safe as long as I make sure the new disk has larger volume on partitions than the older disks, right?
Thanks a lot

ImageCast3 should make a bootable clone, and it should do the partition and formatting itself. Their web site says, "At the basic level, ImageCast IC3 produces copies of model hard drives, including the boot track, partitions, registry settings, and applications - and restores these copies or "images" onto target drives. Cloning multiple machines with Windows 95/98/NT/2000 is fast & easy."

Pay attention to the source and target disks to avoid writing over the old disk.

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reido@my-deja.com

Friends don't let friends install Windows ME