How to create disk image?
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Hi, I want to copy the entire content of a hard disk to another one. The second hard disk should be an exact image of the original one, after the copying process. How to do this using VC++ or C++ or C? Please suggest me the way of approach that I have to adopt. Hoping to get a reply soon. TIA. regards, Jahfer V P.
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Hi, I want to copy the entire content of a hard disk to another one. The second hard disk should be an exact image of the original one, after the copying process. How to do this using VC++ or C++ or C? Please suggest me the way of approach that I have to adopt. Hoping to get a reply soon. TIA. regards, Jahfer V P.
Unless you are looking for something difficult to do, I would spend $20 on a copy of Ghost. It's well worth it.
"Ideas are a dime a dozen. People who put them into action are priceless." - Unknown
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Hi, I want to copy the entire content of a hard disk to another one. The second hard disk should be an exact image of the original one, after the copying process. How to do this using VC++ or C++ or C? Please suggest me the way of approach that I have to adopt. Hoping to get a reply soon. TIA. regards, Jahfer V P.
If you make any mistake all the data could be lost!!! Don't try it, just do it! ;-)
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Hi, I want to copy the entire content of a hard disk to another one. The second hard disk should be an exact image of the original one, after the copying process. How to do this using VC++ or C++ or C? Please suggest me the way of approach that I have to adopt. Hoping to get a reply soon. TIA. regards, Jahfer V P.
Is this only for one pc or many? Is this for a client? Are the disks the same size? I ask these questions because linux has a very easy utility to do this. The command is dd. I recently found this when partition magic failed to copy a failing hard drive because it han not been unmounted cleanly. Of course it was unmounted cleanly XP locked up when the disk stoped spinning. Good thing after a reboot it started spinning again... I booted off a gentoo linux live cd and at the prompt I typed dd if=/dev/hda of=/dev/hdb bs=8M and in about 1 hour I had a copy of a 40 MB drive on an 80 MB drive. It did not resize the partitions though but after removing the smaller bad disk windows XP booted and ran fine. John
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Unless you are looking for something difficult to do, I would spend $20 on a copy of Ghost. It's well worth it.
"Ideas are a dime a dozen. People who put them into action are priceless." - Unknown
Yes, or setup RAID if that's what you want to accomplish with this. 8bc7c0ec02c0e404c0cc0680f7018827ebee
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Is this only for one pc or many? Is this for a client? Are the disks the same size? I ask these questions because linux has a very easy utility to do this. The command is dd. I recently found this when partition magic failed to copy a failing hard drive because it han not been unmounted cleanly. Of course it was unmounted cleanly XP locked up when the disk stoped spinning. Good thing after a reboot it started spinning again... I booted off a gentoo linux live cd and at the prompt I typed dd if=/dev/hda of=/dev/hdb bs=8M and in about 1 hour I had a copy of a 40 MB drive on an 80 MB drive. It did not resize the partitions though but after removing the smaller bad disk windows XP booted and ran fine. John
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:-O I do this all the time. I guess it shows my age... I actually had both drive sizes on my main computer sometime in the mid to late 80s. I remember that the 80MB drive cost almost $800 and that was for a drive that had hard errors on it. Since dos 3 did not support partitions above 32 MB I remember I had to split it into multiple partitions... John
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:-O I do this all the time. I guess it shows my age... I actually had both drive sizes on my main computer sometime in the mid to late 80s. I remember that the 80MB drive cost almost $800 and that was for a drive that had hard errors on it. Since dos 3 did not support partitions above 32 MB I remember I had to split it into multiple partitions... John