partition clone with c#

muteb

Is there any way that i can make clone of hard drive c to mu external one by using c# code? can anyone help me with guideline or opensource software which has the desirable method.

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Ummm, maybe a something like, File.Copy ? :rolleyes:

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PIEBALDconsult

I wouldn't attempt it with managed code.

muteb

I'm asking how to do it not should I do it. can anyone please provide me with any clue

Calla

Beside using File.Copy (as mentioned) use methods like Directory.GetDirectories and Directory.GetFiles. Maybe recursive programming will help you out as well..

Md Marufuzzaman

You can try xcopy-tool./[^]

Thanks Md. Marufuzzaman

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Stanciu Vlad

Clonning a partition is not an easy task, and by far an easy one to do with managed code. If you want to do a full clone then your aim is to understand partition descriptors, file and folder descriptors and all the stuff that goes behind a file system when it acceses a partition. Why it is necessary to understand them, simple you can't just rely on the file system of an os and there are lots of existing partition types. If you want just to copy all the files from a partition to another you must keep in mind that critical files opened by the operating system and/or applications are not readeable (nor writable) unless they are closed (or opened under special conditions). ps: partition != hard drive :)

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PIEBALDconsult

But if no one thinks you should, no one will tell you how.

Dave Kreskowiak

You're not going to do it in managed code. In the simplest form you can do this, it requires that Windows isn't running since there will be plenty of areas of the disk that will be locked and unavailable to even be read. I wrote an app to do this way back in 1991, written in C and running from a DOS boot floppy. I was duplicating hard drives for the mass production of "laptop" computers for Prudential Insurance. Every machine has a standard DOS/Windows/software load that had to be on about 450 machines. For those keeping score, Ghost came out 2 years later in 1993. Yeah, there's my :doh: moment! ...had I only known there was a market...

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