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Bill

On Wed, 14 Feb 2001 23:12:52 +1100, Ultra wrote:

>Could someone tell me the best/safest HDD copy solution which is suitable
>for normal home user?
>
>I'm asking because I have a long unsolved problem. Whenever I need to
>complete copy from one HDD to another, I usually use Ghost, which is good
>for any win9x machine, however, when copy win2k/NT machine with large NTFS
>partition and/or extra security setting, Ghost usually failed to make a
>workable copy. The only "solution" was to try again and again, until got a
>copy that works, but as you can see, this makes Ghost a "bad" solution for
>such task.
>
>The basic problem with Ghost are: 1) it doesn't like large NTFS partition,
>as a result, the copy HDD won't boot; 2) Ghost may not be able to bring over
>the security setting, sounds strange.
>
>I really need to know how to make safe transfer from one HDD to another with
>NTFS and win2k/NT.
>
>The basic requirement would be:
>1) the solution must be able to make the copied HDD bootable with large NTFS
>boot partition (eg C: drive larger than 8G)
>2) all security settings much be carried over as what they were
>3) all software reference must be kept as same as before
>4) I'm not talking about MS backup to tape drive, then restore from tape, as
>normal PC won't have a tape drive.
>5) preferred some software like Ghost
>

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