[geeks] Help: Copying an entire drive under Windows?

Dan Sikorski me at dansikorski.com
Mon Aug 11 08:17:06 CDT 2008


Bill Bradford wrote:
> I need to copy the ENTIRE contents of a system's hard drive to another
> (external) drive under Windows Vista 32-bit Business edition.
>   

This isn't quite what you are asking for, but may get you what you 
need:  The bundled windows backup utility in vista creates a .vhd file, 
which is Virtual PC's hard disk format.  That file will not be bootable 
in VPC AFAIK, but it can be mounted in a virtual machine.

    -Dan Sikorski



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