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On 13 May 98 at 21:55, David Nasser wrote:
> I "built" a little PC for home use last Dec. It has Tyan TX board,
> Pentium 166 MMX, etc. I have NTWS 4.0 SP3 and lots of other software
> on Western Digital 3.2 gb udma HDD.
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> This HDD started failing some weeks ago. I can occasionally get it to
> boot. Mostly I get a hard drive failure. Vagabond Gypsy's got no
> backups. I do have a replacement drive from WD, and I need to do
> an "image copy" from the old drive to the new.
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> The system runs NT WS 4.0 SP3. I've got lots of software in 2 NTFS
> partitions on the failing drive. Can Partition Magic handle the NTFS
> stuff? I was told that if I can boot MS/DOS with CD drivers (and I can),
> then PM can do the job, copy everything so's I can install the
> replacement drive as C: and go about my merry business. Does this sound
> accurate? Are there any other products that can do this?
This is correct -- I've had to do it. PM doesn't *run* under NT,
but it knows how to resize and move NTFS partitions just fine.
David G
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