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Want to mirror or ghost hard drive.

I have 2 hard drives. The other day, the c: drive crashed. It took me 2 days and alot of frustration to install all the software back on the second drive (not to mention some irreplacable software I no longer have the access to).

Since this the third time this has happened, it would be nice to mirror a second hard drive. I would like to make them identicle so if the main drive crashes I can just swap them out and pick up where I left off.

If I copy all files to the d: drive, and export the registry to the d: drive, will that make them identical? Is there a way to copy the whole drive bit by bit or someting?

Any help or advice would be appreciated. Thanks!

[Feb 18, 2005 10:58:38 PM]

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Re: Want to mirror or ghost hard drive.

I assume that you want to avoid the expense of RAID 1. Look over the description of Norton Ghost (about $40) and glance at the different but related PartitionMagic (about $60). Sounds like Ghost fits your needs.

[Feb 19, 2005 1:53:52 AM]

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Re: Want to mirror or ghost hard drive.

Hi Neal
Have a read of this:
https://secure.worldcommunitygrid.org/forums/wcg/viewthread?thread=1652

Regards

[Feb 19, 2005 2:25:04 AM]

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Re: Want to mirror or ghost hard drive.

Is this one of the newer 120MB+ HD's? I've heard anecdotal evidence they are much more likely to crash, and it's a worry, because I have a 160MB drive.

[Feb 19, 2005 12:45:32 PM]

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Re: Want to mirror or ghost hard drive.

Make that gigabyte (GB) not MB in previous post.

[Feb 19, 2005 12:47:48 PM]

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Re: Want to mirror or ghost hard drive.

Thanks for your suggestions lawrencehardin and Graham. I think I will get the Norton package, it sounds like its just whats needed.

And Hynee, no this was not a 120 GB drive, it was a very old 20 GB drive that has run faithfully for years without any errors or bad sectors on it. For some reason, it started developing bad sectors, and within a day it was unreadable (I did'nt even have time to copy files to the d: drive). I can't think of what caused it to crash.

[Feb 19, 2005 11:19:39 PM]

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