need help making a ghost image

[WaveDemon]

after getting my PC up and running again it has a damaged hard drive. since I'm replacing it I want to replace my boot hard drive too. Can someone suggest a free program to help me make a copy of my boot drive on to my new hard drive?

[#ZERO]

I have Casper and Drive2Drive software programs that will work.

I'll burn a copy and bring it to the shop today.

[SuperJETT]

driveimage xml is what I use at work, works great.
http://www.runtime.org/driveimage-xml.htm

[WaveDemon]

k, made a clone of my c drive to my new hdd, swapped the cables and set the jumper to master on my new drive and unplugged my old drive and now my computer won't boot.

I thought I might get the windows recovery console to try and fix it and I can't remeber the administrator password. I could have sworn it was admin or administrator.


anyhoo, anyone have some advice on getting my new drive to boot?

I can't make another clone of the old one, the old drive kicked the bucket

[tom21]

I thought yor bro was a genius with this stuff?? do a search, the info is out there.

[WaveDemon]

I thought yor bro was a genius with this stuff?? do a search, the info is out there.

search? that's a fantastic idea!

the search results aren't as helpfull as you'd think.

[tom21]

that just means you don't like the answer.

[SuperJETT]

For local administrator for safe mode, the password is blank by default. user: administrator pass:

[MADMAT]

IMO just back up important data and then reload XP on to new boot drive.

I only use images when I have several or several dozen identical machines.

I use this program for creating images.

http://www.drive-image.com/