CloneDrive

[Highlander]

@ Patriot

Ok I know you know the answer to my question..........

Now I want to take a 1 TB hard drive and set it up with 3 partitions 25/475/500. Now Windows XP will be on the 25 GB partition. Will soon be Windows 7 once I find a work around so I can run Falcon.

The question is.. When I run DC will it only clone the 25 GB partition or the whole TB drive? Then only thing on the 25 will be windows along with video and sound drivers. All other programs will be installed to the 475 partition.

I am even going to move the My Documents folder from the 25 to the 475 so then there will be only short cuts on the 25.

Your thoughts


PS If you use just the Windows 7 upgrade make note that it will back up your Windows XP folder once you are done with the upgrade and have every thing carried over and installed you can delete the back up folder with no problems. Found this out helping a friend upgrade their system.

[Patriot]

Since I use Norton Ghost, not the Farstone product, for this purpose, I cannot give you an accurate accounting of it's operation. However, I would suspect that during the initial setup in preparation to make an image the selection list likely asks you to chose a drive letter of the drive you are wishing to make the image of. It is possible that you could select multiple drives.

If an OS happens to be on the selected drive it too will be part of the image. From what I have seen so far of image copying products that tends to be the methodology. I've not seen one that simply makes an image of a hard drive based on it's disk assignment without reference to the disk assignments contained within it. A drive to drive copy might possibly be an exception, but to date I have had no luck with anyone's drive to drive copying program actually making a flawless copy. Just another reason why I prefer using an image and then pasting the image where I need it.

I have a feeling that this isn't the answer you were looking for, but I hope it helps.

John

PS. The person to ask this of whom would best able to give you better information would be Bert, our webmaster. This sort of thing is right up his alley.

[Bert]

Do you have an existing system that you want to clone to a new drive?? I don't think I have seen any utilities that attempt to copy an entire disk. AFAIK they all clone drives (partitions) individually. I'm also curious why you would want to limit your Windows partition to 25GB. Not that it's a bad idea, just that it's not common to do that. In WinXP you can right click My Documents and select Properties - from there you can change the target location and move all of your files to one of the other partitions.

You will need to keep in mind that the default install directory for most programs is %WINDIR% and will automatically find the partition that Windows is installed on. You will need to always adjust this during install and upgrade to reflect the partition that you want to install on. Sometimes this will require selecting advanced options. I only say this because I have forgotten this step a few times and had to uninstall and reinstall.

Something to consider...Windows 7 has been said to have limited support for OpenGL and other video rendering technologies. This makes it a less than optimum O/S for online gaming. As I understand it, ths is nearly the only universal complaint about the system.

[xF3N1Xx]

Something to consider...Windows 7 has been said to have limited support for OpenGL and other video rendering technologies. This makes it a less than optimum O/S for online gaming. As I understand it, ths is nearly the only universal complaint about the system.

I can report that at least for me, no issues at all with OpenGL (Running Win 7 x64 Home Premium). I can run Doom 3 no problem. Just make sure you have your latest graphics drivers and all patches associated with the game. But beware, if the game you want to run was made for XP only, and XP compatibility mode doesn't work, you are outta luck. There will be things that worked on XP that may have unforeseen issues under win Vista/7 architecture. Thats they way tech goes. Which is why its best to dual boot XP on a tiny partition if you think ur gonna need it. But Windows 7 is a fully stable primary OS. Go for it.