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Rob Beard wrote: > Hi folks, > > For a while now I've been trying to find a free (as in freedom) app > which would be able to transfer something like Windows XP from one drive > to another so I could upgrade the hard drive without having to > completely reinstall Windows. > > I've used PartImage for backing up partitions and discs but never really > got it to restore to a bigger disk properly. > > Anyway, I had a bit of a play with CloneZilla tonight when upgrading the > wife's PC and it's great! > > I managed to clone her old 200GB hard drive on to a nice new 500GB hard > drive (both SATA drives) and about an hour later it's all done, and > Windows boots without any problems. > > That's just gone and saved me a few quid on Ghost. > > Even better is the fact you can clone drives from machine to machine > over a network. I'll have to have a go with Vista next, that should be > interesting, I wonder if it'll clone from a physical PC to a Virtual > Machine? > > Anyway, thought it might be useful for some of you folks who still have > to do stuff on Windows machines. > > Rob > > > > Not wanting to get a windows based topic going on here but....... just for info If it doesn't work for vista you can always try ImageX - MS's *free* clone tool - I HAVE to work with windows and used to use ghost but now use either ImageX or Acronis for cloning XP/Vista, Ghost has given me problems with some SATA controllers and drives. I've never tried Clonezilla for XP or Vista - I guess the need to sysprep applies to cloning networked XP/Vista PC's Dave -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html