Did know that you could clone your current Hard Drive
without having to by extra software? Maybe you didn't
know that all that you needed, was already set up on
your current system? Well, it is... and if you follow this
tut, you shouldn't have much of a problem.
Make sure that you have a Master and a Slave setup on
your system. The Slave drive, in this case, is where all
the data on the Master is going to go to.
First: Perform a Scandisk your Master drive and follow
that with a thorough Defrag. If you have an Antivirus
program, do a thorough sweep with the AV first, then do
the Scandisk, followed by the Defrag.
Second: Do the same thing to the target drive, as you did
the Master: Scandisk then a thorough Defrag.
Third: Right-click on the Target drive and click on Format.
When the box comes up, click your mouse onto the "Full"
button.
Fourth: After Formatting the Target drive, run a Scandisk
again and click on the button that says "Autofix Errors".
Fifth: In this final part, you might want to cut-and-paste
to code in, unless you are sure that you can do it without
making any mistakes:
Click on the "Start" button, then click on the "Run..."
button, then place the following into the Runbox:
"XCOPY C:\*.*D:\ /c/h/e/k/r" (minus the quotes, of
course) then press the "Enter" button.
If you receive an error message, then remove the space
from between XCOPY and C:\
Anything that should happen to come up in the DOS box,
just click "Y" for "Yes". When its all finished, pull the original Master from the system, designate the Slave as
the Master (change your jumpers), then check your new
Master out.
This tut has worked and has been tested on all systems
except for Windows 2000, so you really shouldn't have
any problems. If, by any chance, you should come across
a snag, message me and I'll walk you through it.
without having to by extra software? Maybe you didn't
know that all that you needed, was already set up on
your current system? Well, it is... and if you follow this
tut, you shouldn't have much of a problem.
Make sure that you have a Master and a Slave setup on
your system. The Slave drive, in this case, is where all
the data on the Master is going to go to.
First: Perform a Scandisk your Master drive and follow
that with a thorough Defrag. If you have an Antivirus
program, do a thorough sweep with the AV first, then do
the Scandisk, followed by the Defrag.
Second: Do the same thing to the target drive, as you did
the Master: Scandisk then a thorough Defrag.
Third: Right-click on the Target drive and click on Format.
When the box comes up, click your mouse onto the "Full"
button.
Fourth: After Formatting the Target drive, run a Scandisk
again and click on the button that says "Autofix Errors".
Fifth: In this final part, you might want to cut-and-paste
to code in, unless you are sure that you can do it without
making any mistakes:
Click on the "Start" button, then click on the "Run..."
button, then place the following into the Runbox:
"XCOPY C:\*.*D:\ /c/h/e/k/r" (minus the quotes, of
course) then press the "Enter" button.
If you receive an error message, then remove the space
from between XCOPY and C:\
Anything that should happen to come up in the DOS box,
just click "Y" for "Yes". When its all finished, pull the original Master from the system, designate the Slave as
the Master (change your jumpers), then check your new
Master out.
This tut has worked and has been tested on all systems
except for Windows 2000, so you really shouldn't have
any problems. If, by any chance, you should come across
a snag, message me and I'll walk you through it.
