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John
I also recently downloaded the Casper XP trial but I didn't use it because I
wasn't sure of the effect it has on a current partition. I want to copy
everything from my 2nd hard drive onto a partition in my 3rd hard drive.
Then I'll replace the 2nd hard drive with a new hard drive and copy
everything back onto it. It's not clear in the Casper XP help files if I
can copy onto my 3rd hard drive without changing the partition or
overwriting everything that's already on it. There is plenty of free space
in this partition. Do you know enough about this to be able to explain it
to me? What does it mean that the trial version won't resize the volume.
Will it actually shrink the current partition down to the size of the cloned
#2 drive, in the process destroying other data? The help files are
minimalist and actually little help at all.
John
----- Original Message -----
From: "John blucarr" <true_blue88@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <omega-list@xxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Saturday, March 06, 2004 1:09 PM
Subject: Awesome experience with Disc cloning software
> It happens rarely I have such a great experience with a piece of
shareware.
> I wanted to clone my hardisc on my charting computer in case of
failure --- I could swap out in minutes.
> From download.com I read very high rating of casper XP (mine is Win2K OS
which it supports as well).
> I downloaded the 30 day trial --- beware it does not resize volumes if
your new hard disc is larger until you register and pay.
> I set jumpers to slave on the new disc, booted, my bios autorecognized the
slave.
> I did NOT Fdisk or format anything --- this was a bare disc !!!!!!
>
> I installed CasperXP, and in like 4 click throughs I was copying my entire
multi partition old disk (partitions C through G) in one fell swoop. Took
about 17 minutes for 22 gigs.
> Then, I tested the new disc by shutting down the PC, setting jumpers on
slave back to master, unplugging power cable and ribbon to old disc and
putting them on new drive only.
> Result: New drive booted up just fine, GS started, TS 2000i started, all
charts and everything there just fine.
> Wow, I'm a believer.
>
> John
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