Hey guys, I need to make a full working copy of a hard drive, it's from a local college here and has all the data of the students and employees. The thing is that the IT guy they had was a massive retard that programmed the databases in DOS (and fucking excel) and is forcing the main computer to remain in Windows XP. Not anymore, I developed a replacement but I need to import all the info. No problem with that.
The thing is that his software is extremely specific and won't work if too many things are different, he made his programs with unique generated serial codes and what not and we don't have the time to look into that and the guys refuses to support us.
I cannot take the computer, I need to create a perfect copy that will work regardless of the computer that is being used (I'm thinking on using a VM), what software would you recommend?
You can use SuperDuper! if you need to make a bootable drive
Levi Gutierrez
This right here
DD (and DDrescue) has saved my ass many a times.
Christian Reyes
odin is great. you can back up the odin image to a usb stick while the xp machine is still running. if you have hiren's boot disk on that stick, then you just boot into hiren's on another pc, and restore the image to that pc via odin. continues to work after you remove the usb stick because hiren's mini xp can run purely from ram. i would do this a lot when i'd get called in to deploy a master image to computer rooms in schools. always worked like a charm. i miss the xp days.
Isaac Johnson
dd
Eli Torres
Boot from a live cd and use dd. You can then turn that image into a vm.
Mason Thomas
Underrated
Asher Sullivan
based retard
Landon Howard
This
Mason Ortiz
Macrium Reflect
David Reed
>cloning a disk >not cloning an entire pc
Andrew Howard
>Programmed the databases in DOS (and fucking excel)
Something tells me HE isn't the problem here.
Daniel Sanders
What's the best way to do this to clone multiple drives (including an LVM setup) into just one drive?
