Copying Hard Drive info programs

[MaceratedGoth]

Is there any program out there that will allow me to copy everything including Windows 2000 Pro onto another hard drive while windows is running? If there isn't then can someone help me create a boot disk with CD-Rom support so I can run Norton Ghost. Thanks!

 

[wolluf]

Norton Ghost will create such a disk for you!

 

[colinsw]

A running Windows partition can be imaged by using this program:

http://www.bootitng.com/imagew.html

While it is commercial $US27, they do offer a downloadable trial version.

Alternatively, floppy disk images can be downloaded from:

http://www.bootdisk.com/bootdisk.htm

I would recommend you use the Windows 98 version over any other.

 

[MaceratedGoth]

Yes well it is kinda hard to create a boot disk with Norton Ghost if you can't run it while windows is up! But thanks for the links I will go look.

 

[MaceratedGoth]

Well the links did not help me since I don't want to make an image of the hard drive but actually move data from one hard drive to another. Any other suggestions? Any are welcome.

 

[wolluf]

MaceratedGoth - what exactly are you trying to do? Norton Ghost is designed to produced a range of boot disks - eg, with CD or network support - from which you actually do the imaging (ie, when windows is not running - but you create the disks while windows IS running).

So what data are you trying to move (most will just copy - some system files and profile files won't while windows is running - with normal copy, but there are other tools).

btw - you know you can create a Ghost image and then use ghost explorer to extract files from that image. So if you imaged whole drive from norton boot disk, you should be able to retrieve whichever you want to copy from the image).