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Sigstroker,
Casper. It is perfect. When you make the copy you can boot to it and
can't tell any difference. The first time I swapped disks I though I
was on the old disk. I swapped the IDE leads between the two disks
and it worked perfectly. You can just use the bios to tell it to boot
to the other disk. You do have to turn all programs off on the
computer but that is a small price to pay.
www.fssdev.com for personal use it is free or was.
Best regards,
Jimmy Snowden
mailto:jhsnowden@xxxxxxx
Wednesday, February 25, 2004, 4:33:09 PM, you wrote:
Sac> I'm looking for a piece of software to do a bit-for-bit copy from one disk to another. I don't want "backup" software that compresses using the vendor's proprietary algorithm so that you need to
Sac> use the software to "restore". I have two things I want to do:
Sac> 1) My C drive is filling up. I want to copy it to a larger drive and swap them out.
Sac> 2) I want to make periodic copies of my C drive to drives in removable drawers for backup. If the C drive in the pc takes a dump, I want to just pull the most recent backup out of it's drawer
Sac> and swap it into the pc.
Sac> Obviously neither of the above will work if the copy/clone is compressed with some weird algorithm. I bought Drive Image, but it appears to only make the kind of backup I don't want. I would
Sac> assume the software I need would have to run in DOS off a bootable floppy. So far, everything I've looked at seems to run in Windows.
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