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Old 04-23-2008, 10:09 PM   #15 (permalink)
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Re: How to Replace C:?[MOVED FROM WINDOWS]

Chas, I must apologize. My understanding of XXClone capabilities were misguided. It will only clone one partition (or volume) at a time. It does not have the ability to clone an entire hard drive.

Acronis True Image will clone an entire hard drive, but unfortunately it's not free software.

That said, there is a tool based on Acronis TI that is free. It's Seagate DiscWizard. I don't know if it'll work on drives from other manufacturers, such Western Digital, but it's worth a try. If it only works works with Seagate drives it'll simply tell you that "No Seagate drive is detected" and won't allow you to go any further.

It will allow you to do a complete clone of the exixting hard drive. The instructions can be found in chapter 10 of the manual.
http://www.seagate.com/support/discwizard/dw_ug.en.pdf

Let us know how you make out, and once again I apologize for the misunderstanding on my part.

Edit: If you're new drive is not a Seagate and DiscWizard doesn't work with it, then you can try the 15 day trial version of Acronis. It might allow you to use the Clone feature during the trial.

http://www.acronis.com/homecomputing...oad/trueimage/

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