I've mentioned a few times how I have partitioned/formatted/reinstalled XP along with all XP updates, all my programs, browsers and AV, on a HDD in about 30 minutes using Seagate's 'Disc Wizzard for Windows' that comes with all their HDDs.
So it was surprising to read in todays newspaper about this program that just came out that says it will do all that for $31USD.
Thought of passing this along.
Copy Commander will copy everything
How to duplicate your hard drive
By Noah Matthews - McCLATCHY NEWSPAPERS
Updated: 11/05/07 7:29 AM
At the risk of giving my age away, I remember my first hard drive: 10 megabytes of storage that cost me $600 and made me the laughingstock of my nonnerdy friends. Who in the world would ever need that much storage? I was running DOS v.2.11 and an ancient version of Microsoft Word. Today I have a 250-gigabyte hard drive and another 250- gig backup drive. Altogether now, arithmeticians, how many times bigger than 10 megabytes is 500 gigabytes?
Right. Lots bigger. But like money, you can’t have too much hard disc space. Which is why I’m installing a much larger hard drive and keeping the two 250-gig ones for backup and photo storage.
I want to keep my finely tuned Windows Vista on my new hard drive, and I don’t want to spend a month of Sundays reinstalling program files. To the rescue comes Copy Commander, which will copy everything — programs, Windows, Internet Explorer, photos and other graphic files and your complete library of e-mails, along with all 20 versions of your Great American Novel — to your new hard drive.
Once you’ve decided where to put the hard drive (installing a new one is somewhere on the geek scale between “experienced newbie” and “certified geek,” you can boot from the Copy Commander CD and follow the simple instructions. A manual is included on the program disc, but the actual copying is as simple as a mouse-click.
If your old hard drive is partitioned, you can copy each partition to the new drive. Copy Commander will even expand the partition on the new drive. A bonus program, Partition Commander SE, lets you create, copy and format partitions on the new drive. External drives are tricky, and copying your system files may not work if your BIOS doesn’t support USB or fire wire external drives. For upgrading to a new internal drive, though, copying Windows, programs and data files doesn’t get much easier. And rest assured, as soon as you get that new 500-gigabyte hard drive, in about six months, you’ll want to double it.
Copy Commander will run on Windows XP, Vista, Me, 98, NT, 2000 and 95. To order, send $25, plus $6 for shipping, to WashingtonCD, P.O. Box 351531, Los Angeles, CA. 90035, or online at www.washingtoncd.net.
So it was surprising to read in todays newspaper about this program that just came out that says it will do all that for $31USD.
Thought of passing this along.
Copy Commander will copy everything
How to duplicate your hard drive
By Noah Matthews - McCLATCHY NEWSPAPERS
Updated: 11/05/07 7:29 AM
At the risk of giving my age away, I remember my first hard drive: 10 megabytes of storage that cost me $600 and made me the laughingstock of my nonnerdy friends. Who in the world would ever need that much storage? I was running DOS v.2.11 and an ancient version of Microsoft Word. Today I have a 250-gigabyte hard drive and another 250- gig backup drive. Altogether now, arithmeticians, how many times bigger than 10 megabytes is 500 gigabytes?
Right. Lots bigger. But like money, you can’t have too much hard disc space. Which is why I’m installing a much larger hard drive and keeping the two 250-gig ones for backup and photo storage.
I want to keep my finely tuned Windows Vista on my new hard drive, and I don’t want to spend a month of Sundays reinstalling program files. To the rescue comes Copy Commander, which will copy everything — programs, Windows, Internet Explorer, photos and other graphic files and your complete library of e-mails, along with all 20 versions of your Great American Novel — to your new hard drive.
Once you’ve decided where to put the hard drive (installing a new one is somewhere on the geek scale between “experienced newbie” and “certified geek,” you can boot from the Copy Commander CD and follow the simple instructions. A manual is included on the program disc, but the actual copying is as simple as a mouse-click.
If your old hard drive is partitioned, you can copy each partition to the new drive. Copy Commander will even expand the partition on the new drive. A bonus program, Partition Commander SE, lets you create, copy and format partitions on the new drive. External drives are tricky, and copying your system files may not work if your BIOS doesn’t support USB or fire wire external drives. For upgrading to a new internal drive, though, copying Windows, programs and data files doesn’t get much easier. And rest assured, as soon as you get that new 500-gigabyte hard drive, in about six months, you’ll want to double it.
Copy Commander will run on Windows XP, Vista, Me, 98, NT, 2000 and 95. To order, send $25, plus $6 for shipping, to WashingtonCD, P.O. Box 351531, Los Angeles, CA. 90035, or online at www.washingtoncd.net.
