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DriveCopy 4.0 BoxPowerQuest's DriveCopy 4.0 is a tool very similar to PartitionMagic and Drive Image, but much simpler. It is mainly to be used when a new hard drive is purchased, and all you want to do is copy the entire contents of one drive to another.

There are 2 ways to start DriveCopy. You can boot from the CD (which uses Caldera DR-DOS to create the operating environment) or you can install the program to your hard drive, and then run a "Virtual Boot Disk". In either situation, you are given 3 options:

  1. Verify Disk Configuration
  2. Entire Disk to Disk Copy
  3. Selective Partition Copy

The test system had a 10GB HD that contained only a 2GB FAT 16 partition with 488MB used. I wanted to transfer the contents to an empty 4GB hard drive. I chose option 2 (Entire Disk to Disk Copy) and the process only took 3 minutes. The 4 GB hard drive had a 2GB FAT 16 partition with 488MB used. Since a computer can only have one bootable partition, the old drive's (10GB) partition was hidden, and the new drive (4GB) was marked as active.

Once I verified that the hard drive was up and running, I then reversed the test (copied the 4GB drive to the 10GB drive) and ended up with the same result.

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