clone 2 partitions

[ding-dong]

hi guys just wondering if you can help me out to clone my 1 hdd but with 2 partitions ?

i like to clone my hdd with cloning tool like norton ghost but it will only let me copy one partition not the whole hdd with 2 partitions,

i have 320gigs of hdd with 2 partitions and want to have it clone in my another 320gigs so that when worst come to worst i still have a clone,

do you think i can do that? coz i read it in some thread that you can upgrade and back-up your hdd like it was the last time you used it,

opinions, suggestions, advices and helps is highly appriciated,

thanks for your time guys!

[prashanthpai]

From Hiren's Boot CD

[ Disk Clone Tools ]
1. ImageCenter 5.6 (Drive Image 2002)
Best software to clone hard drive
2. Norton Ghost 8.3
Similar to Drive Image (with usb/scsi support)
3. Acronis True Image 8.1.945
Create an exact disk image for complete system backup and disk cloning.
4. Partition Saving 3.11
A tool to backup/restore partitions.
5. COPYR.DMA Build013
A Tool for making copies of hard disks with bad sectors

Edit : This list is old.
Source : http://www.raymond.cc/blog/archives/...-all-boot-cds/

[ding-dong]

Best software to clone hard drive
2. Norton Ghost 8.3
Similar to Drive Image (with usb/scsi support)

how can you use norton ghost to clone your drive if your drive have a 2 partions?

[Raymond]

Ghost has became a very powerful disk cloning software with a lot of features and I haven't really test all of them yet.

I am still doing the old school way which is connect another hard drive, create another image with ghost and save it to the other drive.

[ding-dong]

thanks fot the tip ray,

if by chance you will know how to create a clone for my hdd with 2 partition please let me know because i want to have a back-up of my hdd just in case anythings happend,

thanks in advance

[Raymond]

If you have 2 partitions, you should be able to use Hiren's BootCD to run Ghost. Try cloning partition A and saving the image to Partition B. And do the opposite to backup Partition B.

Actually Ghost supports automatic burning to DVD drive. Will check it out soon.

[ding-dong]

thanks ray, if my understanding is right you're saying to do it in both sides, like create an image of the partition A to partition B then back it up. bit of confusing to me

if you guys heard a super duper app for mac like cloning it 1:1 ( http://www.shirt-pocket.com/SuperDup...scription.html ) then putting back the clone one to replace the old one ( coz its like upgrading your old hdd with a bigger space ) its looks like nothing happend just that you have a lot of space now,

maybe you can suggest something for the win OS?
i look all over the net before i post a help message here but sems that i ran out of idea to do it

thanks ray! and all of you guys out there!

[Raymond]

Yeah it is abit confusing.
Macrium Reflect Free Edition can do what SuperDuper! does.
Just install it in Windows, make a full backup of your hard drive and save the image to an external backup drive. You then need to create a rescue CD for you to restore your system.
http://www.raymond.cc/blog/archives/...-norton-ghost/

[ding-dong]

i will try that macrium reflect, but i have norton ghost installed do you think it will not have a conflict to each other?

and maybe is there a possibility to do that in ghost?

[Raymond]

I don't think Macrium Reflect will conflict with Norton Ghost.
I have not tried the desktop version of Ghost as I only use the old-school DOS version