How to create copy of partition and make it bootable.

[alforber183]

Hi,

I'll give you a quick overview of my problem. I have 3 identical PC's, but only one of them is working, i want to try and copy the working one and then get the other 2 working aswell. However, the only software that i've got available at the minute is Partion Magic 7.0. If i had norton ghost it would be easy as i've used that before. So here's what i have done.

I copied the working partition through PM 7 to an external hard drive, i kept the partition size the same and made it a logigcal ntfs drive, same as working partition. I then changed the bios settings to boot from USB HDD, but it's just not working. Any idea's on how to get around it?

The PC's have no CD-Rom or floppy drives, so i'm struggling a little bit. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Cheers guys

 

[dberg35]

Look at Arconis it gives a 30 day demo full use.

 

[Grenage]

There are plenty of free apps out there that can do this for you, one of which is Clonezilla.

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