Re: [Thinkpad] Update: Clone/boot problem

If it was a sector to sector cloning solution you were looking for, I would
have done my homework first, i.e.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disk_cloning

And (for my cloning situation) I was ready to try the HDClone program
mentioned on this page. Their freeware version allows complete disk to disk
copy in the smaller to larger size, their Basic version then adds more
features/flexibility (reverse direction, individual partitions, etc all for
about $30). The only concern I would had for my situation (and apparently
yours given your email: disk read errors). I am a big fan or PowerQuest's
Drive Copy (4.0), but it fails miserably when the original media has disk
I/O problems, which I would consider as a limitation to any sector to sector
solution.

FWIW

Andre'

> -----Original Message-----
> From: thinkpad-bounces@stderr.org [mailto:thinkpad-bounces@stderr.org]On
> Behalf Of David Ross
> Sent: Sunday, January 14, 2007 6:37 PM
> To: thinkpad@stderr.org
> Subject: Re: [Thinkpad] Update: Clone/boot problem
>
>
> > Hmmm, sounds an awful lot like what I suggested days ago. New install,
> then
> > restore backup, then copy over files.
>
> Except I was able to skip the backup/restore step.
>
> In any event, I always knew that a backup/restore or similar option
> would work. I was hoping to save time by using one of the many tools on
> the market sold to clone disks (as I have done several times in the
> past). It is a real testament to MS's complexification of the boot
> process that none of these tools worked in this case. (Up through 9x
> you could reliably clone just by booting to DOS, 'SYS' ing the drive,
> and copying files, as long as you used a file copy program that
> respected long file names.) Even if the programmers at Paragon,
> Symantec, Acronis, et al are worse than one would expect, sector-level
> programming is not rocket science; I used to do it myself back in CP/M
> days. (I once had to write a program to transform a Morrow format 5.25"
> floppy into a Cromemco format floppy; it only took me an afternoon,
> using Forth on a 64k Z80 machine, and this included deducing what the
> format differences were...and I'm hardly a software professional.) MS
> must build some unnecessarily subtle context dependencies into the OS to
> make such programs fail under certain circumstances.
>
> David
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