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How easy/hard is it to clone a hard drive?
More Cowbell:
I have several computers with the same specs (PIII 733 mhz) that i would like to set up the same way. It takes hours to copy and configure everything that I put on one of these things including the operating system as I'm starting with blank hard drives. Is there a way or software or something that allows me to take one of the systems that I have set up correctly and simply clone the drive and drop it in another same-spec box?
ChadTower:
dd
EDIT: fixed link, the board choked on the parentheses
FunWithFire:
Could you set the blank hd as a slave drive in a comp that is already set up, and then just copy and paste from the master drive to the slave drive?
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ChadTower:
--- Quote from: FunWithFire on October 26, 2007, 03:02:21 pm ---Could you set the blank hd as a slave drive in a comp that is already set up, and then just copy and paste from the master drive to the slave drive?
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No. Depending on the operating system there would be a lot of stuff that would not go over. I'd use DD in a Linux box or I'd set up a Ghost image.