Recommend 64-bit drive image software?!?

**Doctor Feelgood**

I am looking to clone my boot drive in Windows XP 64-Bit. Does anyone know of a decent (maybe free) app?

I tried a bunch of 32-bit ones that work on my regular XP machines, but they won't run on 64-bit.

If it is easier... would taking my drive out, and attaching it to a 32-bit machine allow me to clone it properly?

BeerCheeze · Posted: Fri, 04 Nov 2005 09:33:00 Post Subject:

See this is where my guide would have come in handy. What is this time thing you speak of??

Are you just trying to make a back up copy of the drive? Or move HDD's?

If so you can do it with out any utilities. Basics:

1) Convert HDD to dynamic disk
2) Mirror Partition(s)
3) Remove 2nd HDD
4) Break/remove mirror.

Only down side (if it's a concern for you) once disk is dynamic you can't install anything like Linux on it.

**Doctor Feelgood** · Posted: Fri, 04 Nov 2005 09:38:20 Post Subject:

That sounds good, I'll try it tonight!

All I want is to move the OS partition to a different drive in the computer.

Thanks!

**Doctor Feelgood** · Posted: Fri, 04 Nov 2005 12:26:54 Post Subject:

PC Stats just released an article on this...

http://www.pcstats.com/ArtVNL.cfm?articleID=418

Being 9 pages long makes me think they think it is more involved than your few steps! Laughing

(didn't read it yet, though).

BeerCheeze · Posted: Fri, 04 Nov 2005 13:00:51 Post Subject:

They are talking about 3rd party apps:

Page 1: â€” Beginners Guides: Cloning WindowsXP
Page 2: Disk Cloning Software
Page 3: Part 1A: Installing a new drive for cloning
Page 4: Part 1A: Before and after the Cloning
Page 5: Part 1B: Cloning for a new computer
Page 6: Part 1B: Installing Drivers After Cloning
Page 7: Part2: Using Norton Ghost
Page 8: Part2: Using HDClone
Page 9: Part2: Using Ranish Partition manager

And my steps are very high level... but that is bascilly all there is too it. Trust me, I've done it on my own server when I wanted to upgrade my RAID array. So I did it from one RAID array to another. Grin

**Doctor Feelgood** · Posted: Fri, 04 Nov 2005 13:52:16 Post Subject:

Thats another thing... I thought I had 6 or 8 SATA headers, but only have 4. Just got a fifth drive to test, so it means I can't get as close to 2TB of storage without an add in card! Laughing

**Doctor Feelgood** · Posted: Fri, 04 Nov 2005 22:12:09 Post Subject:

You're talking about Mirroring in Windows, right?

I can only do Simple, Spanned, or Striped.

I even tried making partitions of equal size, but no dice.

**Doctor Feelgood** · Posted: Sun, 06 Nov 2005 22:52:41 Post Subject:

Cheeze never came back to hold my hand and my drive still isn't copied! Laughing

But, some other forum said this is the only 64-bit app at this time:

http://www.terabyteunlimited.com/imagew.html

edvallie · Posted: Wed, 09 Nov 2005 08:32:03 Post Subject:

**Doctor Feelgood** · Posted: Wed, 09 Nov 2005 09:25:07 Post Subject:

I don't know... Nothing! But ooh, does the 1TB SATA-II RAID 0 array benchmark nicely!!

That app I downloaded was worthless. It looked like it was making a backup, and I have some huge backup files on my drive, but they won't restore! Bang Head

I started over and reinstalled everything... Oh well!