We have an older machine running windows 2000 - desktop, with Partition Magic 7.0 installed on the machine.
We added cards to handle any type of drive interface, with multiple ports, and it allows us to copy / clone drives of all kinds, in a matter of minutes. Partition Magic recognizes all of the formats and operating systems and sets up the drive accordingly. If you use a version of Partition Magic that's higher than 7.0 it will not allow the copying of server drives as the newer versions of Partition Magic recognize the server OS and want Server Magic instead of Partition Magic. The cloned drive works exactly the same way that the original drive works. This was particularly helpful in downgrading a bunch of IBM desktops that were shipped with windows XP to allow one of our medical clients to run Windows 2000 because much of the software they run, for transmission of billing data to places like WebMD, will not run on anything higher than Windows 2000 machines. We simply created the first machine under Windows 2000 and then copied the drive to the other machines. Microsoft has a line in thier licensing that allows you to DOWNGRADE from an operating system so long as you have all of the necessary licenses for the original operating system. Preventing data loss to begin with is one of the best ways to prevent headaches in our business! Bruce Barnes ChicagoNetTech Inc -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of David Dodell Sent: Sunday, March 02, 2008 08:23 To: [email protected] Subject: [IMail Forum] hard drive clone software suggestions I'm running our Imail platform on Windows 2003 Server, and we appear to have a drive possibly going bad. We've order some new drives but want to clone them to make the transition easier. Suggestions for hard drive cloning software that will work with SATA/ SATA2, Seagate Drives, and Windows 2003 Server? Thank you. David Dodell To Unsubscribe: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html List Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/imail_forum%40list.ipswitch.com/ Knowledge Base/FAQ: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/IMail/ To Unsubscribe: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html List Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/imail_forum%40list.ipswitch.com/ Knowledge Base/FAQ: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/IMail/
