Is there a bootable floppy that will make a sector by sector copy from
IDE0 to IDE1? I have a 40 gig h/d that is NOT formatted for windows,
but is formatted by a proprietary system and I also have a new 2nd
hard drive of the exact same make and model. Both drives have exactly
80,292,871 sectors of 512 bytes, and I just want all the sectors on
the 2nd one to be an exact copy of what is on the first one.
A long time ago I had a bootable floppy (non-dos) that would do just
that - it would copy sectors from whatever harddrive was connected on
IDE0 to whatever harddrive was on IDE1. It took a few hours but it
worked. I no longer have that floppy and I can't remember what it was
called or where I got it from, but, I think I had to download a
program that created it onto any blank pre-formatted floppy. I
beleive it was shareware, because it was not very sophisticated - you
had to make sure you connected your h/d's up correctly because the
program didn't check anything - it just went through the sector
copying exercise without any user input.
If anyone remember this program, or a current one that will do this,
please advise.
"surface9" <davsf@neto.com> wrote in message news:1186245882.060186.41630@j4g2000prf.googlegrou ps.com
> Is there a bootable floppy that will make a sector by sector copy from
> IDE0 to IDE1? I have a 40 gig h/d that is NOT formatted for windows,
> but is formatted by a proprietary system and I also have a new 2nd
> hard drive of the exact same make and model. Both drives have exactly
> 80,292,871 sectors of 512 bytes, and I just want all the sectors on
> the 2nd one to be an exact copy of what is on the first one.
>
> A long time ago I had a bootable floppy (non-dos) that would do just
> that - it would copy sectors from whatever harddrive was connected on
> IDE0 to whatever harddrive was on IDE1. It took a few hours but it
> worked. I no longer have that floppy and I can't remember what it was
> called or where I got it from, but, I think I had to download a
> program that created it onto any blank pre-formatted floppy. I
> beleive it was shareware, because it was not very sophisticated - you
> had to make sure you connected your h/d's up correctly because the
> program didn't check anything - it just went through the sector
> copying exercise without any user input.
>
> If anyone remember this program, or a current one that will do this,
> please advise.
> Is there a bootable floppy that will make a sector by sector copy from IDE0 to IDE1?
Yes, and some bootable CDs too.
> I have a 40 gig h/d that is NOT formatted for windows, but is formatted
> by a proprietary system and I also have a new 2nd hard drive of the
> exact same make and model. Both drives have exactly 80,292,871
> sectors of 512 bytes, and I just want all the sectors on the 2nd one
> to be an exact copy of what is on the first one.
> A long time ago I had a bootable floppy (non-dos) that would do just
> that - it would copy sectors from whatever harddrive was connected on
> IDE0 to whatever harddrive was on IDE1. It took a few hours but it
> worked. I no longer have that floppy and I can't remember what it
> was called or where I got it from, but, I think I had to download a
> program that created it onto any blank pre-formatted floppy. I
> beleive it was shareware, because it was not very sophisticated - you
> had to make sure you connected your h/d's up correctly because the
> program didn't check anything - it just went through the sector
> copying exercise without any user input.
> If anyone remember this program, or a current one that will do this, please advise.
Most of the imagers will do that. I prefer True Image myself,
but even real dinosaurs like Ghost 2003 will do that.
Thanks, Folkert, it worked like a charm. H2COPY made a copy of my
proprietary h/d and the new h/d is now performaing flawlessly.
The entire package (h2copy) is in german, which I do not understand,
but, I went ahead and made my best guess and it worked. At the end,
however, there was the following message, which I hope someone can
translate for me.
"Fertig.
Bitte sicherheitshalber neu booten -- nicht auf die platten
zugreifen!"
I hope that says it was done and that I should reboot, but, please
translate to english if you can.
"surface9" <davsf@neto.com> wrote in message news:1186321885.127412.144060@m37g2000prh.googlegr oups.com
> On Aug 4, 12:30 pm, "Folkert Rienstra" <see_reply...@myweb.nl> wrote:
>
> >
> > http://www.heise.de/ct/ftp/ctsi.shtml
> >
> > h2copy.zip 28.895 20.04.00 DOS: H2copy V1.11, kopiert Festplatten sektorweise, "Datenpuzzle", c't 6/2000,
> > S.116ftp://ftp.heise.de/pub/ct/ctsi/h2copy.zip- Hide quoted text -
> >
>
> Thanks, Folkert, it worked like a charm. H2COPY made a copy of my
> proprietary h/d and the new h/d is now performaing flawlessly.
>
> The entire package (h2copy) is in german, which I do not understand,
> but, I went ahead and made my best guess and it worked. At the end,
> however, there was the following message, which I hope someone can
> translate for me.
> "Fertig.
Done.
>
> Bitte sicherheitshalber neu booten --
Reboot
> nicht auf die platten zugreifen!"
Do not access the drives.
>
> I hope that says it was done and that I should reboot,
Yup, plus the warning to not access the target drive (since the OS has
not updated the drive's contents, hence the reboot) which has changed.
> but, please translate to english if you can.
>
> Thanks,
>
> littleberry
surface9 <davsf@neto.com> wrote:
> On Aug 4, 12:30 pm, "Folkert Rienstra" <see_reply...@myweb.nl> wrote:
>
>>
>> http://www.heise.de/ct/ftp/ctsi.shtml
>>
>> h2copy.zip 28.895 20.04.00 DOS: H2copy V1.11, kopiert Festplatten
>> sektorweise, "Datenpuzzle", c't 6/2000,
>> S.116ftp://ftp.heise.de/pub/ct/ctsi/h2copy.zip- Hide quoted text -
>>
>
> Thanks, Folkert, it worked like a charm. H2COPY made a copy of my
> proprietary h/d and the new h/d is now performaing flawlessly.
>
> The entire package (h2copy) is in german, which I do not understand,
> but, I went ahead and made my best guess and it worked. At the end,
> however, there was the following message, which I hope someone can
> translate for me.
>
> "Fertig.
>
> Bitte sicherheitshalber neu booten -- nicht auf die platten zugreifen!"
Google's language tools claims that means
"Finished. Ask for safety's sake again boats -- do not access the plates! " |-)
> I hope that says it was done and that I should reboot, but, please
> translate to english if you can.
low-level sector copy IDE0 -> IDE1 
Linear Mode
