How to copy the hidden partition to another drive?

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How to copy the hidden partition to another drive?

#1 Post by bibo » Tue Mar 21, 2006 4:55 pm

Hi guys. Does anyone know how to copy the hidden partition to another drive or CDs

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#2 Post by ScotchDiver » Tue Mar 21, 2006 5:11 pm

The resuce and recovery center has an option for making a set of recovery CDs.
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Re: How to copy the hidden partition to another drive?

#3 Post by BillMorrow » Tue Mar 21, 2006 11:49 pm

bibo wrote:Hi guys. Does anyone know how to copy the hidden partition to another drive or CDs
i guess WHY is the answer..?
as scotch says, you can make a set of recovery CD's..
if you want to clone your drive, i use acronis true image..
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Re: How to copy the hidden partition to another drive?

#4 Post by bibo » Wed Mar 22, 2006 11:08 am

BillMorrow wrote:
bibo wrote:Hi guys. Does anyone know how to copy the hidden partition to another drive or CDs
i guess WHY is the answer..?
as scotch says, you can make a set of recovery CD's..
if you want to clone your drive, i use acronis true image..
Because I want to change the hard drive and copy the hidden partition to the new hard drive. I don't have a DVD burner on the laptop and cannot make a CD+DVD recovery disc (7 cds are too many). So I am also wondering if I can make the startup CD; then copy the recovery folder in the hidden partition to another computer and burn it on a DVD to make the CD+DVD recovery disc. Anyone tried this?

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#5 Post by bg4533 » Wed Mar 22, 2006 1:32 pm

Norton Ghost will let you make images of the full drive and restore them to any other drive. The only issue is you will need to store the image to somewhere. If you have another computer I believe Ghost supports storing to network drives.

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#6 Post by MaloventEvil » Wed Mar 22, 2006 2:29 pm

download the program "dd" for windows. It allows the contents of 1 drive to be copied to another drive, or a file( ie ISO'd)

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#7 Post by w0qj » Wed Mar 22, 2006 8:49 pm

MaloventEvil wrote:download the program "dd" for windows. It allows the contents of 1 drive to be copied to another drive, or a file( ie ISO'd)

Err... what is this "dd for windows" program? Where can we download this?


Also, can you ISO (image) a CD too with this program?

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#8 Post by MaloventEvil » Wed Mar 22, 2006 9:30 pm

yes.

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