[200] in winnt
Re: Mirror copy of NT partition from one hard drive to a
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jonathan McIndoe Hunt)
Fri Jul 24 14:20:28 1998
Date: Fri, 24 Jul 1998 14:16:45 -0400
To: STASIK@wccf.mit.edu, ntpartners@MIT.EDU
From: Jonathan McIndoe Hunt <jmhunt@MIT.EDU>
In-Reply-To: <01IZS1AD6GS88WW81K@wccf.mit.edu>
Hi Stefan,
There are commercial packages that will make an image of a given partition
and then you can put that image on the other hard disk and put it in place
of the first. The software I have used in the past is Power Quest's Drive
Image Professional. Another software I have heard of is call Ghost.
About Mirroring a drive. If you want to do it using NT tools. The
mirroring can be setup in Start Menue/Adminstrative Tools (Common)/Disk
Administrator. Once the mirror has been setup, then you can break the
mirror, take out the 2 GB drive and make the 4 GB drive boot. You should
read up a little more on this in whatever is your favorite NT book, because
it isn't quite this simple.
Is there a problem with having both drives in the machine. If the user
just needs space, why not just add the second drive. You are going to need
to have both drives in the machine at once if you want to take the
mirroring approach. Also, after the drive has been mirrored, the partition
would still be stuck at 2GB unless you used another third party software
like Power Quest's Partition Magic, you could not expand the partition to
take up the entire 4GB. You could setup a second 2 GB partition on that
drive though.
I hope this helps.
-Jonathan
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