DriveCopy 3.0

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DriveCopy 3.0

Price: $29.47

Product Review
Like so many of PowerQuest's products, DriveCopy performs a gritty and unglamorous task, but fulfills its purpose so well that it more than earns its purchase price. DriveCopy makes it easy to transfer the entire contents of one hard disk--including hidden files and the contents of the Master Boot Record (MBR)--to another. What's more, it deals smoothly with situations in which the source drive or partition and the target are of different capacities.

To use DriveCopy, you'll need to do the following:

Let it set itself up on a floppy disk (it comes on a CD-ROM to accommodate some documentation and utilities)
Boot your system from that floppy
"See" all the physical drives connected to your computer's IDE and SCSI interfaces
Coordinate several kinds of copying operations

You can copy a whole disk to another, or copy the contents of only a single partition. If you've just purchased a bigger hard drive and want to make it your boot disk in an IDE system, you have to do a bit of jumper manipulation (you have to make the new drive the child, perform the copy operation, then remove the old drive and make the new drive the parent), but you have to mess with your hardware anyway during a drive upgrade, so the inconvenience is not serious.

Note that when you buy this product, you buy a license to use it on one computer only. You can use DriveCopy to copy data among drives on one machine, but you have to buy another copy of the product if you want to do the same on another computer. For the freedom to use the same instance of DriveCopy on multiple computers, you have to buy the Professional edition of the product. Either way, DriveCopy alleviates the blaring pain of upgrading a hard drive without losing your software and settings. It's a good buy. --David Wall

Product Description
DriveCopy 3.0 allows you to easily upgrade your hard drive. With a few simple steps, your old hard drive is automatically copied to your new one without losing a single preference, setting, or byte of data. DriveCopy copies single or multiple partitions, works with Windows 95, 98, NT, 2000, and Linux. Version 3.0 supports FAT, FAT32, NTFS, Linux ext2, Linux Swap, and HPFS partitions. DriveCopy now supports hard drives larger than 8.4 GB.

Reader Reviews
I needed a proven method of transfering an old drive to a new one. But with a NTFS/W2K disk this wasn't easy. MaxBlast, XXCopy and other free programs don't fully support NTFS. (If your using 95/98 then the software that came with the new drive will probably work fine.) That left me with Norton Ghost or Drive Copy. If all you want to do is clone your disk then Drive Copy is the answer. It's simple, easy and did a perfect clone. I'm sure Norton would do just as well a job and if you want to do a lot of incremental ghosting operations then maybe it is for you. But if all you want to do is move or backup a drive then save $50 and Download Drive copy from Amazon. And I mean Amazon.... No reason to buy the boxed product. But I still don't understand why it takes 14MB to make two floppy disks? Anyone? Comment | Permalink | (Report this)

DriveCopy 3.0
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Price: $29.47
Updated on 6-25-2008.

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