how to copy a system drive?

[black_b[ ]x]

I want to swap hard drives on a computer running Win2k Server. I bought Drive Image 7 only to find out it doesnt support Win2k server. How do I do this? there are 2 partitions on the old drive, which I want duplicated to the new drive. The new partitions will be larger.

We have daily tape backups, so I suppose I can re-install windows on the new drive, then go to the tapes, but isnt there an easy way to copy the drive contents? I tried booting to a floppy disk (created in winXP), but the drives are SCSI and don't show up.

 

[Ice Czar]

Symantec Ghost would be the best (most feature rich) solution
in the freeware category g4u

"g4u ("ghost for unix") is a NetBSD-based bootfloppy/CD-ROM that allows easy cloning of PC harddisks to deploy a common setup on a number of PCs using FTP. The floppy/CD offers two functions. First is to upload the compressed image of a local harddisk to a FTP server. Other is to restore that image via FTP, uncompress it and write it back to disk; network configuration is fetched via DHCP. As the harddisk is processed as a image, any filesystem and operating system can be deployed using g4u. Easy cloning of local disks as well as partitions is also supported. "

 

[black_b[ ]x]

cool, i'll check out that program, thanks for the quick response.