boot program to copy hard drive

**Anilrgowda** · 22-Feb-2007, 09:30 PM

Question: what program can i use to copy all the data (byte by byte) from my hard drive to another one?
I'm replacing 2 older hard drives with 2 new ones.
so i would think it would have to be some kind of boot up program since i would have to take out my main hard drive with the OS to copy all the stuff of my 2nd hard drive.

**Anilrgowda** · 22-Feb-2007, 09:30 PM

Get bootit-ng. With it you create a bootable floppy or CD. Then you can use it to copy the partitions of your HD to another, or you can change the size of partitions without hurting the data, you can make image files of your partitions which you can restore later etc. With the other software you usually have to get different products for all that. It is also a lot less expensive than the other products, and the trial version should work during the trial period. After that it doesn't let you restore images.

TeraByte Unlimited - Boot Manager, Partition Manager, Drive Image, Disk Copy and Drive Wipe Utilities

22-Feb-2007, 09:30 PM	#1 (permalink)
Anilrgowda Administrator Posts: 18,695 Join Date: Jan 2006 Rep Power: 10 IM:	boot program to copy hard drive Question: what program can i use to copy all the data (byte by byte) from my hard drive to another one? I'm replacing 2 older hard drives with 2 new ones. so i would think it would have to be some kind of boot up program since i would have to take out my main hard drive with the OS to copy all the stuff of my 2nd hard drive.

22-Feb-2007, 09:30 PM	#2 (permalink)
Anilrgowda Administrator Posts: 18,695 Join Date: Jan 2006 Rep Power: 10 IM:	Re: boot program to copy hard drive Get bootit-ng. With it you create a bootable floppy or CD. Then you can use it to copy the partitions of your HD to another, or you can change the size of partitions without hurting the data, you can make image files of your partitions which you can restore later etc. With the other software you usually have to get different products for all that. It is also a lot less expensive than the other products, and the trial version should work during the trial period. After that it doesn't let you restore images. TeraByte Unlimited - Boot Manager, Partition Manager, Drive Image, Disk Copy and Drive Wipe Utilities

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