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	Disk cloning - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		A disk cloning program is most commonly used by large companies to provision new computers, by a computer manufacturer to install the initial package of the operating system and applications for sale, or by a training or educational institute to refresh the software on the computers used by a class.
		This had the disadvantages of copying not just the used data on the disk, but also unused sectors, as the hardware used was not aware of the structures on the disks, and usually required the disks to be copied before being inserted into the machines.
		A disk cloning program needs to be able to read even protected operating system files on the source disk, and must guarantee that the system is in a consistent state at the time of reading.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Disk_cloning (1152 words)

	Disk cloning technology for the overburdened IT Professional (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Disk cloning is suitable for a wide range of corporate and academic situations that require a standardized, consistent, and properly tested computing environment to be loaded on two or more PCs.
		Disk cloning is also an effective way of stopping a virus dead in its tracks before it spreads throughout the campus in addition to removing other unauthorized software and files from computer systems.
		Likewise, disk cloning can be used to load different environments on the same set of PCs, allowing each instructor to tailor the PCs to match his or her individual curriculum.
	www.ciol.com /content/flavour/whitepaper/101101901.asp (4591 words)

	Disk Cloning: A Great Tool for CTCs
		Cloning is the creation and maintenance of a complete image or copy of a computer's hard drive.
		Disk cloning assumes that the data is not important at all -- that the system configuration and applications are what needs to be preserved.
		Remember that the disk clone you create is the basic configuration for a computer in your lab (just as if the computer was brand new and had the software newly installed).
	www.techsoup.org /howto/articlepage.cfm?ArticleId=161&topicid=12 (978 words)

	Computer Forensics Software
		Also serves as a low-level disk imaging and cloning tool that creates true mirrors (including all slack space) and reads most drive formats and media types, and supports drives and files of virtually unlimited size (even terabytes on NTFS volumes!).
		Gathers all space on a hard disk that does not belong to any partition in a file, for quick inspection to find out if something is hidden there or left from a prior partitioning.
		Disk imaging is the term given to creating an exact copy of a disk in form of an image file.
	www.winhex.com /winhex/forensics.html (2129 words)

	The FreeBSD Diary -- Disk cloning with Acronis True Image
		I mentioned I planned to ghost the disk ("ghost" being a synonym for clone, derived, I expect from Norton Ghost, a well respected disk cloning application).
		Cloning an XP disk is not as simple as it sounds.
		The difficult part was to clone the existing XP boot drive into the RAID array.
	www.freebsddiary.org /disk-cloning.php (1391 words)

	Disk Cloning, clone hard disk, duplicate hard disk, bad sector hard disk
		The DiskPatch disk cloning feature is designed with troubled disks in mind; it will not give up if sectors can not be read.
		For a professional data recovery engineer, cloning the disk is a vital and the first step in the data recovery process.
		A second reason for cloning a disk is the presence of bad sectors (sectors that can not be read) on the original disk.
	www.diydatarecovery.com /disk_cloning.htm (380 words)

	DIY DataRecovery DiskPatch, partition recovery, partition repair and disk repair software.
		Scanning the surface of a modern hard disk triggers the disk's internal error management to re-map bad sectors when they are encountered; hard disks are equipped with a pool of so called 'spares' that can replace a bad sector.
		Cloning a disk in reverse direction is only one of them.
		On severely troubled disks, cloning the disk in reverse order (from the end to the start) is often a last resort that can yield surprisingly good results.
	www.diydatarecovery.nl /DiskPatch.htm (1245 words)

	Beginners Guides: Cloning WindowsXP - PCStats.com
		PCstats has previously covered a handful of disk cloning software programs which are useful for the purpose of backing up your data by making an identical copy of your hard disk.
		Disk cloning uses a special software program such as Symantec's Norton Ghost to create an exact copy of one hard disk on a second drive.
		Many disk cloning software packages allow for a disk image to be stored on another type of media such as magnetic tape, DVD-R, CDR/RW, or kept in a central location to be cloned to many computers via a network.
	www.pcstats.com /articleview.cfm?articleID=418 (728 words)

	Free Hard Disk Backup and Restore, Hard Disk Image and Cloning Utilities (thefreecountry.com)
		The hard disk and partition imaging software take a snapshot of your hard disk so that you can restore your system at a later time to the exact same state the system was when you imaged the disk or partition.
		Hence if your hard disk was (say) defragmented with certain software occupying certain sectors when you backed up, it will be returned to that same state when you restore your backup.
		Hard disk imaging software are sometimes also used to clone a hard disk to another (useful for the times you change or upgrade your hard disk).
	www.thefreecountry.com /utilities/backupandimage.shtml (1401 words)

	Learn to exploit WinXP's disk cloning support - Network Admin - Insight - ZDNet Asia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Friday, May 03 2002 01:36 PM One of the most important features in Windows XP, from a corporate standpoint, is its support for disk cloning.
		Disk cloning requires a reference machine, a distribution system, and a destination machine.
		Once the disk is configured, verify that the operating system and applications are working properly.
	asia.cnet.com /itmanager/netadmin/0,39006400,39041741,00.htm (705 words)

	Cloning the Win9x system disk using XXCOPY
		But even in that case, the newly cloned drive will not be dual-bootable because XXCOPY does not touch the Master Boot Record (MBR) of a hard disk (we believe it should be handled by FDISK or other tools).
		System Disk Cloning: Say, you bought a hard disk with an astronomical number of bytes (at least, it seems that way for now), and you want to install your new drive as your system disk (Drive C:).
		If you have not attached the new disk drive, now is the time to connect it as a non-boot disk by leaving the current system disk (Drive C:) as it is. We assume your new drive is the 2nd drive (referred to as Drive 2 by FDISK).
	www.xxcopy.com /xxcopy10.htm (3406 words)

	Disk cloning in NT
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		Microsoft has now done a complete about-face regarding disk cloning as a method of rapidly deploying NT Workstation throughout the enterprise.
		Once the disk is prepared, customers can use a variety of third-party utilities to easily deploy Windows NT Workstation 4.0 on multiple systems throughout their organizations.
	www.networkworld.com /newsletters/nt/1019nt1.html (513 words)

	Storageflex Disk Cloning Page
		Recovery from a failed disk is accomplished with the help of the parity information stored on the remaining disks.
		Storageflex's Disk Cloning Technology reduces the risk of a 2nd Disk Failure even further by preventing the first disk failure.
		Rather than taking an average of 360 minutes to rebuild a 36GB Disk Drive, the process of cloning a disk is merely to copy the blocks of data from one live drive to another.
	www.storageflex.com /cloning.htm (684 words)

	Online system disk backup, disk imaging, disk cloning, and bare metal restore solution (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Automated hard disk data backup and recovery with easy to use wizard-driven interface.
		Mount the disk image as a virtual disk drive and restore individual files and folders.
		Clone and upgrade disk drives and Incremental disk backup and disk backup image verification.
	www.systembackup.info (380 words)

	Wonders of 'dd' and 'netcat': Cloning OS harddrives (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		A simple way to clone this drive (/dev/sda) to another drive attached to this system (/dev/sdb) is to use dd command.
		One of the primary reason for using dd and netcat way of cloning OS instead of using commercial software such as Ghost is we have a liberty to automate process as we like.
		This cloning and imaging method may be very effective in forensic analysis where sometimes you need an exact snapshot of harddrive including swap space partitions.
	www.rajeevnet.com /tips_hints/os_clone/os_cloning.html (3595 words)

	Softpanorama Norton Ghost Page (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The speed of Norton Ghost 2003 in disk to disk operation is really amazing: approx 10 min to backup a partition with ~4G of data (many small html files) with the image size slightly over 2G and just 3-4 min to restore this partition.
		I cloned a local partition on the same drive, after spending just a little time matching up the partitions as I knew them in Linux (hda1, hda2, hda3) with the names they are known by in BSD.
		We were able to create disk images almost as quickly as Norton Ghost, and we did it all in an afternoon using entirely free software.
	www.softpanorama.org /Unixification/norton_ghost.shtml (7347 words)

	XP Home NTFS cluster size and disk-cloning
		The sheer capacity of disks these days means that the loss of capacity due to cluster size is insignificant.
		If the disk with the Paging file dies, once you've removed it and booted, Windows will just give a little complaint, create it's own temporary page file and move along.
		If I'm reinstalling anyway, it will probably create the disk with 4 KB clusters, but it's useful to know that the 512 byte clusters on the present disk wouldn't have made it significantly slower, especially as I defrag quite frequently.
	hardware.mcse.ms /message191586.html (1703 words)

	Disk cloning tool details: incremental and differential backups, scheduled backup and other
		Disk cloning tool details: incremental and differential backups, scheduled backup and other
		The disk image verification tool ensures that the disk backup you just made is error-free and can be restored without any problems.
		Using Acronis True Image Home 9.0 you will also be able to deploy a new disk as an additional storage device, securely wipe an old hard disk, redeploy it, and perform a lot of other operations.
	www.acronis.com /homecomputing/products/trueimage/features-details.html (386 words)

	No cloning around
		For quick-and-dirty single-PC cloning, you can connect two workstations on the network using a crossover cable and set up one workstation as the source and the other as the destination.
		The security ID is a 64-digit value that is generated using a complex formula during the installation of Windows NT.
		Whatever system is used, disk cloning is by far the quickest and most reliable way to roll out a new operating system and applications.
	www.networkworld.com /reviews/2000/0117revclone.html (1160 words)

	X-Ways Replica: DOS Disk Cloning and Imaging Tool
		The clones and images are forensically sound, exact bit-by-bit copies, including all unused space and slack space.
		For disk imaging, you may specify the maximum file size at which the output file will be split and another segment will be begun.
		After removing their floppy disk, one can insert the one with Replica and use it to create the image on a remote computer, because that remote drive will become available as a drive letter under DOS.
	www.winhex.com /replica.html (1016 words)

	SuperDuper!
		SuperDuper is the most advanced, yet easy to use disk copying program available for OS X. It can, of course, make a full backup, or "clone" — in moments, you can completely duplicate your boot drive to another drive, partition, or image file.
		Whether you're making a full backup to a disk image, using Smart Update to update an existing backup, or making a complex clone to test a software update, the process couldn't be simpler: select the source drive, the destination and the appropriate script.
		Clone to your heart's content — for free.
	www.shirt-pocket.com /SuperDuper/SuperDuperDescription.html (1112 words)

	Disk Cloning - Windows BBS
		Get it here Install it and use the command line XXCOPY /CLONE C:\ X:\ where C:\ would be your source drive and X:\ would be your intended target for the clone.
		Later, you may want to add the /yy switch after the clone switch so you don't have to confirm all the overwrites.
		As to media required to ghost an image, the general rule is 70% of your data on disk.
	www.windowsbbs.com /showthread.php?s=&threadid=11517 (1590 words)

	Macworld: Mac Gems: Super disk cloning
		For example, to make a standard clone (a bootable copy) of a volume, you simply choose the volume you want to be copied and the volume to which you want the copy to be made—you make these choices from pop-up menus arranged in a sentence that reads, Copy {volume name} to {volume name}.
		The “Safety clone” feature is rather unique; it creates a copy of your existing drive except for user Home folders and (if selected) third-party applications, which remain only on the original drive; both volumes share those files.
		Smart update destination from source: This option is useful for updating an existing clone, as it copies only those files that are new or changed since the previous copy was made, and deletes any files that are no longer on the original volume.
	www.macworld.com /weblogs/macgems/2005/06/superduper (1330 words)

	g4u - Harddisk Image Cloning for PCs
		Putting an image from a small disk on a big disk works, putting an image from a big disk to a small disk is likely to cause problems.
		This is normal as g4u clones the whole disks with all blocks, not attributing if they contain any valid data or if they are empty/unused.
		This freeware program can erase your disk in a safe way, but it can also be told to just write a pattern of all-0-bits to the disk.
	fbim.fh-regensburg.de /~feyrer/g4u (5240 words)

	How do I clone/backup a hard disk under Windows?
		These last two reasons are why it is not safe to assume that the problem is too rare to worry about -- many people may have been affected, but simply not know what really happened.
		A good solution for disk cloning is to use a special "cloning" program that preserves both long and short file names; e.g.,
		You may be able to get a free cloning utility from your hard disk manufacturer.
	home.att.net /~navasgrp/tech/clone_copy.htm (1053 words)

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