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At 07:19 PM 12/28/2000 -0600, ChasWaring wrote:
>I'm moving files from one Hdisk to another and wish to
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>- partition the disk
Your active disk or a new one? If a new one, you can either FDisk it the
manual way or use PartitionMagic (www.powerquest.com).
If you are working on a disk that has your data on it, I would STRONGLY
suggest a backup of everything critical before running PartitionMagic.
I've used PartitionMagic and DriveImage (PowerQuest's drive imager /
competing tool to Norton Ghost) quite a bit for a year or two. I've been
pleased with both, but recently PM5.01 trashed the filesystems of 3 brand
new Dell machines (I ran it blindly on 3 at a time since I've never had an
issue before). I couldn't come up with a reason why. I've since used PM6
(after making backups!) on a couple of the other machines from that order
and all went fine.
My machines have big disks and big memory. I almost always use the tools
off of the floppy recovery disks. Often I've had to boot up on a Win98
startup disk to avoid memory errors on some machines.
I haven't ever used or seen Ghost, but my brother favored PowerQuest
DriveImage about a year ago when he compared them.
I've got DriveImage Pro 3.0 (actually 4.0 now), which comes with
PartitionMagic. I've just recently learned how to boot on a network floppy
and run DriveImage from across the network -- and save the images across
the network. This is very slick. Particularly when you need to make an
image of a machine that only has one disk and one partition (ie from the
factory).
Basically, in case you don't know.... I don't know of any competing
product for PowerQuest's PartitionMagic (repartition a drive while data is
on it). As I understand, PowerQuest's DriveImage and Norton's Ghost are
very similar (to make images/backups of a partition).
>- move application files and have the registry know where they have moved
Either PartitionMagic or DriveImage comes with a "remapping" tool -- I
think it is PartitionMagic. I have never experimented with it
though. Windows and Windows apps is a bit fussy for me to trust doing
anything unsual.
Personally what I do, is have all machines boot to C:. All apps are
installed on C:. Then all machines have at least 1 more partition where I
have all my data. This allows me to make backup images of my installation
with DriveImage (C:), and if I restore I don't blow away any real data.
Unfortunately, some apps like TradeStation don't let you control where your
templates and indicators sit. (ie can't move from C to D that I know of).
>- copy the OS to the second disk and change it to master and reboot from
>there.
>
>What utility would you suggest? Any Others?
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>TIA
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>
>Charlie
david_wieringa@xxxxxxxx
Software Engineer (contractor)
Scottsdale, AZ / Grand Rapids, MI
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