DriveCopy 3.0
from: Symantec
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Software : DriveCopy 3.0 |
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Rating:  - * Perfect Solution for a Simple Job ... 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? Rating: - * Completely copies your old hard drive to your new hard drive ... Before I tried DriveCopy I use to play around with DOS's and Window's xcopy command with a string of parameters to allow the copying of copy system files and to ignore errors, etc. It was a royal pain. DriveCopy has solved all of those problems. It copies everything from your old hard drive to the new one so that it operates perfectly. The interface is easy to navigate and I found the documentation to be easy to follow. If you want to upgrade your hard drive and don't want to have to reinstall the OS and applications then your money will be well spent on this product. Rating: - * Affordable, Seamless Drive Duplication ... When you buy a new, high capacity hard drive, it can be a real headache to transfer the data from the old drive to the new one. This software does the job for you. I first tried Drive Copy a couple of years ago after discovering that the "sys" command and the "format \f" commands no longer work under the version of DOS supplied with Windows 98, thus making it impossible for me to write system files to the new hard drive so that it would boot the system. The original Drive Copy not only wrote the system files, it made an error-free copy of everything on the old drive. My only complaint with the original Drive Copy was that it insisted on making the partition size on the new drive the same as on the old drive. Thus if your old drive was a 2 gig. drive and you purchased an 8 gig. drive, you ended up with a 2 gig. active partition and a 6 gig. extended partition. Drive Copy 3.0 has fixed this problem. If you copy from a 12 gig. drive to a 20 gig. drive, you get the whole 20 gig drive as the active partition (if you want it that way). The only reason I gave this software four stars and not five is that I think the instructions could be better. But this software really works, and you can't beat the price. Rating:  - * Poorly Documented ... I found Drive Copy to be the fulfillment of the adage "you get what you pay for." After several attempts to get ALL of my data transferred I began to get error messages. When I consulted the online documentation I found that the error message I received was not listed. It is particularily distressing to have all the documentation online for a product like this because when you have problems you can't get online. You have to take the boot floppy out of the machine and reboot. Once you think you know what to do you must reboot from the floppy. If the problem isn't fixed you start the cycle over again. I ended up buying a copy of Norton Ghost 2000 and it worked perfectly the first time. Rating: - * Can solve 98% of your drive copy issues - ... This product is quite awesome in that it does exactly what it says it does -- but also no more. Many new IDE drives coming out include a simple DISKETTE that does the SAME thing if you want to move your data from one drive to the other; exactly. However, I can't find what if you're moving data from an IDE to SCSI drive or vice versa. THIS is critical as more and more people to go SCSI with OS's like Linux. I recommend it highly though for the first scenario I mentioned -- Enjoy! |
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