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"computer_user" <computer_user1@rock.com> wrote in message
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> Ed Light wrote:
>> "computer_user" <computer_user1@rock.com> wrote in message
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>> > No, I mean, what if I have three hard drives in all.
>> >
>> > Can I copy one non booted drive to another non booted drive?
>> >
>>
>> You can copy the files but the part that makes it boot when it's the
> master
>> won't be copied. That's why you need booting -- you can do it with
> the trial
>> version. When it asks to install, cancel and it will go into
> maintenance
>> mode, in which you can copy a partition from one drive to the other.
> Unless
>> the target drive is smaller.
>>
>
> where can I get the trial version? Also, I don't have partitions.
> What if I had three different removable hard drives connected. Would
> it work to copy one to the other?
bootitng.com It is the full version but if you install it to HD it will
eventually beep you out of existence until you pay for it (I knew a fellow
this happened to). But you'll only need to make the floppy and boot from
that.
Your HD probably has just one main partition. There has to be at least one.
You'll see it in bing's maintenance mode when clicking on Partitions or
Partition Work or whatever that is. That's the only part of bing you'll
need.
Think of partitions as file cabinets on the HD. Think of the HD as one room
for data. There has to be one file cabinet. There can be more.
Before using bing it's best to defragment.
You can copy the partition to another hd and that hd will take on the
attributes of the first.
Actually, if the target hd is smaller but you don't have more data than will
fit, you can shrink the partition first, but must back it up before that to
be safe.
If the target hd is bigger, you can expand the copied partition to fit.
bing's a little unintuitive. In partition work you'll see on the upper left
a list of hd's. Assuming the source is the master it will be the first.
Click on that and on the right you'll see a partition, or more than 1 if
there are any. You'll click on the partition and click on copy.
Then click on the target drive on the left. Click on the free empty space on
the right. Click paste. bing will copy it over.
Then if there's free space after the copy, click on it then click resize.
Reduce free space before and after to 0 (zero). Then run it and it will
quickly expand the partition to fill the drive.
It should be all set.
PS Don't get tempted by the Create EMBR button. For your purposes, forget
that. It's for people who want to install bing and boot with it; they can
then have more than the usual number of allowed partitions. For instance,
they could have 10 partitions, each with a different os, and boot from any
one of them.
Ed Light
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