Guest robert d Posted August 19, 2007 Posted August 19, 2007 What can anyone recomend for software to copy a whole disk drive? I would like to copy from a laptop to a tower box over a home wireless network. With little or no cost. -- Robert d.
Guest Gary S. Terhune Posted August 19, 2007 Posted August 19, 2007 Re: disk copy software? Is the drive a bootable WinXP and you intend it to be bootable on tower? Or do you just want to copy over files? If the former, you realize that you will need to run a Repair installation for the system to run on the tower? If the system is XP SP2 and your installation disk is SP1 or earlier, you'll need to make a slipstreamed installation disk. Then again, the original being a laptop, the system may not work on a tower at all. Most laptops XP installations (factory installed) are "BIOS locked" and won't work on any other hardware except the kind they're locked to. -- Gary S. Terhune MS-MVP Shell/User http://www.grystmill.com "robert d" <robertd@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:BB359DB5-7BC3-4B97-959A-6615338ECAF4@microsoft.com... > What can anyone recomend for software to copy a whole disk drive? I would > like to copy from a laptop to a tower box over a home wireless network. > With > little or no cost. > -- > Robert d.
Guest Pegasus \(MVP\) Posted August 19, 2007 Posted August 19, 2007 Re: disk copy software? "robert d" <robertd@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:BB359DB5-7BC3-4B97-959A-6615338ECAF4@microsoft.com... > What can anyone recomend for software to copy a whole disk drive? I would > like to copy from a laptop to a tower box over a home wireless network. > With > little or no cost. > -- > Robert d. You need to be a little more specific. Do you want to copy the system drive or just a data drive? If it's the system drive then your best bet is an imaging tool, e.g. from Acronis. If it's a data drive then xcopy.exe will do the job very nicely.
Guest HeyBub Posted August 19, 2007 Posted August 19, 2007 Re: disk copy software? robert d wrote: > What can anyone recomend for software to copy a whole disk drive? I > would like to copy from a laptop to a tower box over a home wireless > network. With little or no cost. Here's something to get you started: http://www.freebyte.com/filediskutils/#diskmanagement Microsoft has one called "SyncToy" that might be useful.
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