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What do you mean by "do have to turn all programs off on the
computer"?
Does that mean the cloned drive is not recognized as being C:?
In a message dated 2/25/2004 5:42:18 PM Eastern Standard Time, jhsnowden@xxxxxxx writes:
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> Sigstroker,
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> 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.
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> www.fssdev.com for personal use it is free or was.
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> Best regards,
> Jimmy Snowden
> mailto:jhsnowden@xxxxxxx
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> Wednesday, February 25, 2004, 4:33:09 PM, you wrote:
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> 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:
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> Sac> 1) My C drive is filling up. I want to copy it to a larger drive and swap them out.
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> 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.
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> 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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