I'd use Norton Ghost. It enables you to copy from one HDD to another.
On Stardate Thu, 18 Oct 2001 20:45:56 +0800, "Ben Aylett"
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>>Umm.. I don't know guys..
>>
>>From my experience, xcopy only worked up until the end of WFW (3.11). When
>>we went to 95 and beyond, I found that this didn't work as the long file
>>names were not properly transferred (unless you used the lfnback util on
>>the
>>cd) AND any security info (esp. WinNt) was also missed..
>>
>>Get your hands onto the following as I have found them to work.
>>
>>Ghost (even the pre-norton version works)
>>Powerquest Drive Copy (slow and cumbersome but has a few extra features)
>>Laplink 5.0 (Seriously, it works! Even Novell Volumes!)
>>
>>And a better (free) solution..
>>If you are dealing with Win2000, you can install the second drive as a
>>slave
>>and then use disk administrator (courtesy MS) to mirror the drive!. Leave
>>it
>>run for an hour or so (until disk activity slows down) and there you have
>>it.. A second hard drive ready to drop into another PC. You may have to
>>break the mirror first - maybe..
>>
>>Anyway's hope this helps.
>>
>>Ben.
>>> Try this, always works for me.
>>> XCOPY32 /h /i /c /k /e /r /y, copies every single file from one drive
>>> to
>>> the other and boots up as normal.
>>> hope this helps
>>> Cheers
>>> Tony..
>>> > Use ghost or the dos based command XCOPY.
>>> >
>>> > XCOPY is apart of windows is won't cost anything.
>>> >
>>> >
>>> > > >
>>> > > Is there any program out there that I can use to copy the entire
>>> > > contents of my win98/2000 based hard drive onto another drive,
>>> > > so as I can have an emergency backup drive ready to go
>>> > > and/or for the prupose of upgrading to a larger drive.
>>> > > IE: so that the full windows installation will work first go without
>>> > > problems etc ? It must be possible.
>>> > > >
>>> > > re-installing everything is a bloody nightmare as you would
>>> > > appreciate
>>> >
>>> >
>>>
>>>
>>
>>
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