Posted by Arcade 2000 on 10, 2000 at 10:54 AM:
In Reply to: New hard drive...Cloning help! posted by john mac on 10, 2000 at 10:35 AM:
: I bought a 10 meg HD and am going to replace the 6.4 in my work computer and use the 6.4 in my MAME machine. Anyone know of a good way to clone the info from my 6.4 to the new 10.2 so I dont lose data?
: thanks
: john
Go to ftp://ftp.wdc.com/drivers/hdutil/
Download dlgt22.exe.
Run it, and let it creat the special HD utils floppy.
Attach your new drive as master, and your old as slave.
Boot with the utility disk. Run the hd installation section. It will create the partition and you don't want to install MS-DOS files, you want to copy the partition from drive 2 to drive 1.
It will be an EXACT duplicate of the drive.
Believe it or not, it copied a partition from a bad drive that had 30% bad sectors on it for me. It actually got my system back from a major crash.
Those people at WD should be given an award for their truly excellent and FREE software.
Later!
LMK how it turned out.