On 28 Feb Jerry W Hughes wrote:

> Is there away to copy one hard drive to another one. I thinking
> about getting bigger drive but I don't want to reload the software
> to make it the primary drive.

Download Ranish Partition manger, still free for personal use I
believe, at <http://www.intercom.com/~ranish/part/>. The new beta
(version 2.38) includes both a "copy partition" and "copy disk"
feature. Just select source partition and press C for partition copy
or D for disk copy, and it prompts you for the target. I'm  not
sure if the "copy" feature is available in the previous final
release(2.37), I don't think so. The target partition must be the
same size or larger than the source. I've tried "copy partition", and
it worked just fine for me. Fast too. The only thing that doesn't
work quite as expected in the beta is the boot manger(*). The
partition manager seems to work just fine though. Very useful
partition Wizard in the new version as well.

You may also want to have a look at some of the (other) free disk and
file utilities listed on Rich Green's "Free Software for DOS" site:
<http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Lakes/1401/disk2.htm>
<http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Lakes/1401/fileuti2.htm>

(*)if you want a nice (and very good) GUI boot manger, look no
further: <http://www.xosl.org>. And its free too (GNU GPL). See
also: <http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Lakes/1401/boot.htm>

All the best,
Bjorn

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