[pchelpers] Re: question

Billyus Eximius wrote:
> I have a question about something I've always wondered about but never tried. 
> Here goes.
> Can you take a formatted HDD, link it as a slave, then connect to a PC and 
> drag and drop the PC's Cdrive contents to the slave HDD.....then take out 
> this drive, Link it to become a master and then remove the original Cdrive 
> and replace with the one you've just copied the contents to and will this new 
> drive boot up and work as the new HDD in your PC?
>
> Billy
>
>   





I would say no, unless someone knows of a program that not only copies 
the data
but also copies over the boot info at the same time.

The only thing that I know that comes close is CasperXP, or Drive2Drive.
But this just clones the c drive to the slave drive while working in 
windows.

Pc


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