From: Randall Parker 

I want to duplicate my hard drive which has 3 partitions onto a much bigger hard
drive. I can't run the latest version of Symantec Ghost since it does not have NT
listed as supported. DriveImage is no longer sold since Symantic bought PowerQuest.

Here is what I'd ideally like to do:

1) Buy a new big EIDE hard drive.

2) Install the new EIDE hard drive as the second hard drive on an NT machine.

3) Create 3 partitions on it that are bigger than the existing 3 on the existing hard
drive.

4) Copy the 3 partitions (including the stuff that makes it bootable) to the new hard
drive.

5) Remove the old hard drive.

6) Make the new hard drive into the master.

7) Reboot into NT.

Alternative: Backup onto CD and restore from CD to a new hard drive.

1) Run software that backs up onto CD.
    This software has got to know how to tell the CD to run at a slower speed
because
it is my experience that this CD writer does not keep up if going at full speed.

2) Take out the old hard drive.

3) Put in the new hard drive.

4) Boot off a floppy or CD to run the restore software.
    I'm not clear on this point. Can all CD drives be used to boot off of?

5) The restore software would have to know how to partition the new drive with bigger
partitions than the old disk had. Or I'd need to partition it in advance? But if it
was partitioned in advance would it be able to be made into a bootable drive by the
restore?

6) Restore from CD.

7) Reboot into NO.


Any suggestion for software that will let me do either of these approaches?

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