I need some better cloning software than what I've found. I have 2 partitions on a hard drive and I want to copy each partition to a different hard drive. (All 3 drives are installed.)

But not only that, I want to resize both of the destination partitions. The source partitions are 128GB (<20GB used) and 32GB (<10GB used) in size. I want to copy each to it's own 40GB partition.

One of the partitions is the bootable Windows partition (drive D) and I want the copy to boot properly.

Halp?


*Replacing

[Edited on September 10, 2008 at 4:36 PM. Reason : ]

9/10/2008 4:35:56 PM

acronis

9/10/2008 4:38:14 PM

I downloaded Seagate Disk Wizard (by Acronis -- free for seagate drives) but it doesn't resize partitions.

Downloading disk director now.

[Edited on September 10, 2008 at 4:40 PM. Reason : ]

9/10/2008 4:40:42 PM

acronis

9/10/2008 4:42:43 PM

See the part where I said I was downloading it now. Does the trial allow partition resizing?

9/10/2008 4:44:28 PM

i use the full version and once you have an image of a partition you can pretty much put it wherever. No idea how the trial works.

[Edited on September 10, 2008 at 4:45 PM. Reason : ghost2003 can prllly do this too.]

9/10/2008 4:45:24 PM

It says it's impossible to apply the changes with the trial version

[Edited on September 10, 2008 at 4:57 PM. Reason : what good is a trial that doesn't allow trying?]

9/10/2008 4:53:28 PM

piece of crap software. not only destroyed the source partitions, but the destination partitions are both corrupted.

9/10/2008 6:36:07 PM

acronis

i've never had a problem with it

and if you want to do cloning, i dont know why you downloaded disk director instead of true image

9/10/2008 9:52:13 PM

^ the description for true image didn't say it could move & resize at the same time IIRC.

It fucked me over. I managed to recover the partitions, but the windows partition was corrupt after recovering. Trying to install Server 2008 x64 now.

9/10/2008 9:55:49 PM

i know ghost can move and resize, and im pretty sure acronis true image can too

9/11/2008 9:05:53 AM

It sounds like your problem is between the user and keyboard

9/11/2008 9:12:02 AM

i thought it was the keyboard and the chair

9/11/2008 11:34:56 AM

^I lol'd

9/11/2008 2:37:41 PM

Step 1, you should have defragged, then booted off of a portable drive or the like once you had prepped the disks you wanted to screw with. I learned long ago NEVER to screw around with the partitions on my boot drive or partition without having a clean backup on hand. My old cheat was an old as the hills IDE switch that mounted in a front bay and was hooked to a spare HD, on my other machine i kept my main drive as primary slave, and had a hot swap bay with a backup ready to seat and take over as master if the slave failed.

The days its simple, buy cheap, and raid. Get a hot swap SATA rack, throw some cheap 500 gig drives in their in a mirror, and just throw backups of every drive you have on there. I keep 4 750's in a 0+1, and 2 500's in a mirror. The 500's provide boot space, the 750's give me a nice empty 1.0 terra partition and a 300 and some gig file dump encrypted partition for storage.

9/11/2008 8:46:07 PM

I was reckless because I just set up the computer a couple weeks ago. So it wasn't a big deal if it crapped up. Kinda pissed off that my computer won't boot if I set the SATA controller to AHCI mode.

9/11/2008 10:04:46 PM