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PowerQuest'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:
- Verify Disk Configuration
- Entire Disk to Disk Copy
- 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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