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surferdude2
Flightless Bird
The xxclone freeware that I mentioned back in post #8 does what you
want. I use it all the time for cloning a bootable copy of my 80 Gig c:
drive over to a 10 Gig partition on my F: drive. It has a feature that
sets up the dual boot (if you select to do so) so it saves the manual
editing of the boot.ini file. I use the cloned copy for my "Test Dummy"
system so I can play fast and loose without worry. When it gets too
hosed to work properly, I just xxclone over it and start anew.
It does not format the entire drive. It operates from one partition to
another. It does not clone by reading bit by bit. Instead, it copies
data only. That allows you to use any size partition for the
destination partition so long as it's at least large enough to hold the
data. In the process, it automatically defragments the data since it
copies one file at a time.
It has several other accessory tools that can be useful for
initializing the destination drive and making it stand alone bootable.
That takes care of the MBR string and also placing of the bootloader
files (boot.ini, ntdetect.com, and ntldr) that are required to be on the
root of the primary partition. It also has full user friendly
instructions.
I just thought I'd mention it this second time since you seem to be
getting nowhere fast.
want. I use it all the time for cloning a bootable copy of my 80 Gig c:
drive over to a 10 Gig partition on my F: drive. It has a feature that
sets up the dual boot (if you select to do so) so it saves the manual
editing of the boot.ini file. I use the cloned copy for my "Test Dummy"
system so I can play fast and loose without worry. When it gets too
hosed to work properly, I just xxclone over it and start anew.
It does not format the entire drive. It operates from one partition to
another. It does not clone by reading bit by bit. Instead, it copies
data only. That allows you to use any size partition for the
destination partition so long as it's at least large enough to hold the
data. In the process, it automatically defragments the data since it
copies one file at a time.
It has several other accessory tools that can be useful for
initializing the destination drive and making it stand alone bootable.
That takes care of the MBR string and also placing of the bootloader
files (boot.ini, ntdetect.com, and ntldr) that are required to be on the
root of the primary partition. It also has full user friendly
instructions.
I just thought I'd mention it this second time since you seem to be
getting nowhere fast.