How I cloned my Hard drive.

After KICKING the side of my computer to get the hard drive to start up (It was only a 1 yr old Maxtor)!!, I knew it was time to clone it as soon as I could before it failed. Mine has Vista.

I used my Copy Commander 9 Program to make the clone of my old drive on a bigger WD one.
Here is the link to get the downloaded version from the official site.
http://www.avanquest.com/USA/pc-utilities/backup-recovery/traditional-back-up...

Then I decided to back up my wife's computer by cloning her hard drive to another too! (Hers is XP)

Here is how I did it.

Also, if your drives are bigger than the 137 GB barrier allows, then set up the drive in DOS first so your computer "sees" the entire 320GB or what ever size you choose.

And absolutely DON'T FORGET to RUN the "SCANDISK" (tell it to fix errors automatically) on the ORIGINAL drive before copying it over or it will stop in the middle and you will have to start over, as Copy Commander 9 won't let you copy errors....And that is good!
It may look like it is "froze" when it begins working, but be patient. IT will work.
Good luck.

Category:

Howto & Style

Tags:

• Clone
• Hard
• Drive
• Maxtor
• WD
• western
• digital
• copy
• commander
• Dave
• Herbert
• backup

[GanjaGrowers]

WHAT DOES THIS HAVE TO DO WITH PIZZA THOUGH?

[RollerCoasterTV3]

copy commander = Windows XP interface

[MRTURTLEMAN127]

lol lime wire

[PlayFit4Home]

EXACTLY!!! Clone the hard drive is the ONLY way to go!!!! Why does everyone have backup programs and think they are safe... THANKS for this! I think the reading and stuff is a little hard to get through... slow for my taste, but thanks, anyway!

[8545127]

the background music is awesome!!!

[williamarcherassoc]

Dave,

Where can one purchase a copy of Copy Commander?

[matthew65536]

@GanjaGrowers there are many ways to cut a pizza and there are many ways to clone a hard drive

[DannyV1991]

so much reading!

[ecceservices]

I have a labtop with no floppy and now CD-RAM. Any other way to clone this? like let say a external harddrive or a flash drive?

[demaXxXx]

Don't say who uses Floppy Drives any more, or you will show your stupidity about computers. There hundreds of reason why Floppy's are still used. For instance (example) if you need to repair WindowXP and require to load a driver, you can't load it without a Floppy.

One just can't clone a one HD to another and expect if to boot into Windows. I guarantee you will hang-up at the Welcome Window screen, very few succeed. There is a proper way, using proper programs.

[Blessedxerox]

i got an windows 7 laptop

and a little pc thats make like as a laptop i mean the hard drive is the same as the laptop harddrives but its windows xp and i want windows 7 on my little pc so if i delete the xp hardrive does it work or not?

[ralphieboy138]

I still use XP and IDE... sometimes it's not necessary to upgrade. I run my two favorite games CS and Project Reality just fine. Sometimes newer OS have trouble older games. Plus floppy disks are useful for checking RAM.