Text 69567, 39 rader
Skriven 2012-12-21 10:20:00 av Paul Quinn (3:640/384)
  Kommentar till text 69565 av Alan Zisman (1:123/789.0)
Ärende: Cloning advice
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Hi! Alan,

On Thu, 20 Dec 12, you wrote to me:

 AZ>>> Note the operative word 'free' - so buying a copy of the True
 AZ>>> Image, Ghost, etc are not the right answer.

 PQ>> Practically any 'live CD' Linux distro will do it.

 AZ> Really? That's something I wasn't aware of.... want to give me a
 AZ> quick walk-through?

We are talking NT-style OSes here, aren't we?

For me, I'd download an .ISO and use VirtualBox to run an appliance using that
.ISO and make a bootable USB.  I've already done that, and I have the latest
Xubuntu 12.04.01 LTS update on a stick.  The steps to do this is on the Ubuntu
website.  I have another USB doover for Puppy v5.25 (with several target PCs'
saved session files), which was created initially using the same generic vBox
appliance.

Rock up to the target PC with USB stick in hand, and both drives hooked to that
PC.  Boot it up from the USB.  The OS has Fdisk & Format equivalent utilites to
create DOS or NT drives/partitions, so that you can do those operations on the
new HDD to prepare it for the appropriate source's OS.  From there, once all
drives are 'mounted', you can use a GUI explorer type thingy to copy all files
from the source HDD to the destination HDD.  A Linux distro doesn't care about
Windows access security nonsense.

Voila!  The destination is a clone of the source HDD, with the source unharmed
in the process.  The USB is reusable.  No CDs were harmed in the process.  Do I
get a cookie?  Bugger.  What have I missed?  There's an awkward silence...

Cheers,
Paul.

... Help Conserve the Earth - it's the only planet with chocolate.
--- Paul's Win98SE VirtualBox
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