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From: Johnw on 3 Jan 2010 20:04
Father Justin laid this down on his screen :
> I have two 250GB Seagate SATA drives set up in a RAID 1 - mirrored volume.
> Is there a free utility I can use to copy everything to two brand new 750 GB
> drives, also sata?
> The machine is running Windows 7 Pro. I really don't want to reinstall the
> OS and all the software - I have way too much junk on there, from Accounting
> software to Rosette Stone.

I also use XXCLONE.


From: Father Justin on 3 Jan 2010 20:54
On 1/3/10 7:51 PM, hummingbird wrote:
> 'Father Justin' wrote thus:
>
>> I have two 250GB Seagate SATA drives set up in a RAID 1 - mirrored
>> volume. Is there a free utility I can use to copy everything to two
>> brand new 750 GB drives, also sata?
>> The machine is running Windows 7 Pro. I really don't want to reinstall
>> the OS and all the software - I have way too much junk on there, from
>> Accounting software to Rosette Stone.
>
>
> I have done that a dozen times using my payware file manager
> but free ones can do it too. Alternatively, use xxcopy or xxclone.
>

What do you think of Diskcopy by Easus?

http://img685.imageshack.us/img685/1018/dsc00344p.jpg

Also, why is there a 100 Meg partition there that doesn't seem to do
anything? Does it have something to do with the RAID?

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From: Father Justin on 4 Jan 2010 13:13
On 1/4/10 8:24 AM, hummingbird wrote:
> 'Father Justin' wrote thus:
>
>> On 1/3/10 7:51 PM, hummingbird wrote:
>>> 'Father Justin' wrote thus:
>>>
>>>> I have two 250GB Seagate SATA drives set up in a RAID 1 - mirrored
>>>> volume. Is there a free utility I can use to copy everything to two
>>>> brand new 750 GB drives, also sata?
>>>> The machine is running Windows 7 Pro. I really don't want to reinstall
>>>> the OS and all the software - I have way too much junk on there, from
>>>> Accounting software to Rosette Stone.
>>>
>>>
>>> I have done that a dozen times using my payware file manager
>>> but free ones can do it too. Alternatively, use xxcopy or xxclone.
>
>
>> What do you think of Diskcopy by Easus?
>
> Never used it.
>
>> http://img685.imageshack.us/img685/1018/dsc00344p.jpg
>>
>> Also, why is there a 100 Meg partition there that doesn't seem to do
>> anything? Does it have something to do with the RAID?
>
> Almost certainly.
> That image appears to show two identical HDD (0 and 1), each with
> a 100MB block defined as "Active Primary", which is the correct
> setting for a boot partition but it doesn't show if drive letters
> are assigned to those 100MB blocks. You can normally only have one
> Active Primary partition on a system, but I guess that since you
> have RAID configured that's how the disks are setup to support it.
>

Logical.

Peace be with you.

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From: Father Justin on 4 Jan 2010 13:14
On 1/3/10 6:39 PM, ragna wrote:
>
> "Guillaume Le Stubb" <default(a)invalid.invalid> wrote in message
> news:hhr59n$dos$1(a)news.eternal-september.org...
>> On Sun, 03 Jan 2010 17:03:56 -0500, Father Justin wrote:
>>
>>> I have two 250GB Seagate SATA drives set up in a RAID 1 - mirrored
>>> volume. Is there a free utility I can use to copy everything to two
>>> brand new 750 GB drives, also sata?
>>> The machine is running Windows 7 Pro. I really don't want to reinstall
>>> the OS and all the software - I have way too much junk on there, from
>>> Accounting software to Rosette Stone.
>>
>> If they are all seagate drives, then it sounds like a job for....
>>
>> Discwizard man
>>
>> http://www.seagate.com/support/discwizard/dw_ug.en.pdf
>>
>> Download from http://www.seagate.com
>>
>> --
>> de Kat
>
> good god - it's 153 megabytes !! try xxclone - it's only 1.2 mb and
> works swell...
> http://www.xxclone.com/idwnload.htm

xx clone, is that something where I can boot from a CD and copy the
partitions outside the OS?



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From: Father Justin on 4 Jan 2010 13:28
On 1/3/10 8:04 PM, Johnw wrote:
> Father Justin laid this down on his screen :
>> I have two 250GB Seagate SATA drives set up in a RAID 1 - mirrored
>> volume. Is there a free utility I can use to copy everything to two
>> brand new 750 GB drives, also sata?
>> The machine is running Windows 7 Pro. I really don't want to reinstall
>> the OS and all the software - I have way too much junk on there, from
>> Accounting software to Rosette Stone.
>
> I also use XXCLONE.
>
>

I can't - my version of Windows 7 is 64 bit.

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