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[jvanepps]

I have a 60GB hard drive with all my data on it from the xbox. I just bought a replacement 120GB drive that I want to be a copy of the hold. What is the easiest way of accomplishing this? Is there any kind of clone software that can do this? or any other suggestions?

[knowledgeiv]

I would just FTP the files over to a PC and then back again to the new hard drive.  It may be possible to use a drive image tool with a PC, but I don't know.

[jvanepps]

I would do the FTP thing, but I do not want it to take days, and 60GB is quite a bit!!

[MartialXboxArtist]

I read NORTON GHOST can do this in a matter of minutes. I wish I knew how to use it. If someone have used Norton Ghost, post it here!                                      

This post has been edited by MartialXboxArtist: Dec 16 2002, 05:09 PM

[kkattfish]

i'm pretty sure you can't use norton ghost to do this, i think the only way is to ftp the files like somebody already said.  i know how long this can take, i have done it with an 80 gig hd.  

[KazuyaWaruasobi]

Nope, Ghost won't work. You have to FTP it. . . .

[jvanepps]

what about using something like winhex to clone the image?

[sphere man]

i have cloned my 80 gig hd it didnt toke that long 40sec's a gig
it did it at 11.597,99kb's

[Endosmok]

What program & OS did you use to accomplish cloning the hard drives?

[stratjakt]

If you were linux savvy you could do something like this:

mount the old drive, say under /dev/hde

dd if=/dev/hde of=/tmp/image

install the new drive, zero it out and then try

dd if=/tmp/image of=/dev/hde

I guess you could do the same thing in winhex too.

frankly imaging the entire drive bit for bit would probably take longer than just copying the files out of it and back onto the new one, which would be safer.

[MartialXboxArtist]

QUOTE (kkattfish @ Dec 16 2002, 12:19 PM)

i'm pretty sure you can't use norton ghost to do this, i think the only way is to ftp the files like somebody already said.  i know how long this can take, i have done it with an 80 gig hd.

                                    kkattfish knows what he's talking about, so you can forget about the Norton thing.. He's helped me out a TON...

[Cerw1n]

Successfully Cloned several HDs with Norton ghost 6.51 or later.  I have cloned over 4 hard drives from my original 80 gig hd.  To do this you need Norton Ghost 6.51 or later.  Put ghost.exe command line ghost, not the ghost that runs the GUI in windows onto a 9x boot disk, floppy or CD-ROM.  Boot to the disk and run the following command, ghost -IR         and perform a disk to disk transfer.  I do not know if the destination disk needs to be zeroed out.  So far all the destination disks that I have used have been zeroed out since they were new.  If this does not work try to zero out the destination disk and try again.  The total process usually takes around 48 minutes on a AMD XP 2000
The IR switch is the key to correctly copying over  all the sectors.  
Here is what the IR Switch does:
When creating an image or copying disk to disk,, the - IR switch (Image Raw) forces a sector-by-sector copy and tells Ghost to restore the boot track information as is without attempting to repair minor boot track problems.  That i, Ghost creates an image file that is an exact copy of the source disk, including extraneous or erroneous boot track information.
This switch copies everything that the -ID switch does but does not filter out extraneous or erroneous boot track information.  -IR switch requires Norton Ghost 6.51 or later

[gainpresence]

I used Xcopy yesterday..

xcopy source: dest: (/switches)..