How to Clone a Hard Drive



Did know that you could clone your current Hard Drive without having to
by extra software? Maybe you didn't know that all that you needed, was
already set up on your current system? Well, it is... and if you follow
this tut, you shouldn't have much of a problem.





Make sure that you have a Master and a Slave setup on your system. The
Slave drive, in this case, is where all the data on the Master is going
to go to.



First: Perform a Scandisk your Master drive and follow that with a
thorough Defrag. If you have an Antivirus program, do a thorough sweep
with the AV first, then do the Scandisk, followed by the Defrag.



Second: Do the same thing to the target drive, as you did the Master: Scandisk then a thorough Defrag.



Third: Right-click on the Target drive and click on Format. When the box comes up, click your mouse onto the "Full" button.



Fourth: After Formatting the Target drive, run a Scandisk again and click on the button that says "Autofix Errors".



Fifth: In this final part, you might want to cut-and-paste to code in,
unless you are sure that you can do it without making any mistakes:



Click on the "Start" button, then click on the "Run..." button, then place the following into the Runbox:



"XCOPY C:\*.*D:\ /c/h/e/k/r" (minus the quotes, of course) then press the "Enter" button.



If you receive an error message, then remove the space from between XCOPY and C:\



Anything that should happen to come up in the DOS box, just click "Y"
for "Yes". When its all finished, pull the original Master from the
system, designate the Slave as the Master (change your jumpers), then
check your new Master out.



This tut has worked and has been tested on all systems except for
Windows 2000, so you really shouldn't have any problems. If, by any
chance, you should come across a snag, message me and I'll walk you
through it.