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09-05-2006, 06:43 PM
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? about copying the entire contents of my C: drive to another drive.
I was wondering can you just copy paste all the folders/files in the root of C: onto another drive? Or will it not allow you since certain files will be in use? I have two 320 GB hard drives in my case now, and I use one of them just for backups. Since I don’t have a raid setup I was wondering if I could just manually copy the files over (or have retrospect do it for me). That way if my main drive failed I could just boot off the other one and be good to go while I wait for a replacement. No wasted time reinstalling the OS and getting everything back the way it was. So would this work?
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09-05-2006, 07:51 PM
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If you use a utility like Symantec Ghost you can do this. If your talking about right clicking your C: and hitting copy then I'm fairly sure that you cannot do this since there are system files that are in use and cannot be copied while they are in use.
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09-05-2006, 08:09 PM
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Yes, you can do that but it needs to be done with a cloning / imaging program as KilluminatiStyle indicates. There are several good "pay for" programs, depending on what you want and how difficult you want to make it. Acronis True Image 9 is by far the easiest to use that I've seen. It goes for about $30 on sale on Newegg. Ghost is also a good program, but more expensive and not as easy to use. There are free tools out there, too. If you know you drive's manufacturer, they most likely have a free utility to do this on their Web site.
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09-05-2006, 08:56 PM
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Is this something that I can do with EMC retrospect? Thanks.
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09-05-2006, 09:35 PM
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Retrospect cannot do it, you need cloning software to make the drive bootable. You can use imaging software to make a compressed image of the drive, then you can do a bare metal restore by booting with the CD - I don't think Retrospect can do this either. Acronis can do it both ways - cloning or imaging.
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09-06-2006, 04:07 AM
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I agree that Acronis is a good program for that purpose.
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