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Coping whole HD's without cloning.
I have a system with Vista Home Basic and Vista Ultimate (dual boot). I have
a RAID 5 with 4 500 gb drives that is partitioned into 2 500 gb drives. I also have a SATAII 500 gb and 1gb drive installed. I'm upgrading all the drives to all 1.5 GB drives. I can juggle drives in and out of the system so I can always have a clean 1.5gb to move data onto. What is the best software to clone/copy the data, without error, and not have to end up with the original 500gb partition on the 1.5 TB drive? I've used the basic copy methods in Windows for years but I always get some error that stops the copy and then I have to go back and try to figure out just where it left off and do manual partial copies. What a pain in the butt plus you are never sure that you got everything. The other catch that I might run into with some of your solutions is that if it requires a reboot with a CD or whatever, I may or may not be able to see the RAID. This would have to be run in native Vista. I can reboot into any OS required, as long as I can see the RAID. Just in case this helps, I have a pre-release version of Windows 7 that I never installed on this PC that might be a possible avenue. Regards, Kalbo Anarchism Liberation of the human mind from the dominion of religion Liberation of the human body from the dominion of property Liberation from the shackles and restraint of government. Anarchism stands for a social order based on the free grouping of individuals (I know who wrote this and she, yes, she was not a geek but she should have been) |