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Copy Operations

Hard drive duplication nowadays is becoming highly popular among PC users. That is due to some

definite advantages it can offer. First of all, many people clone hard disks just to back up data for

security reasons. The present day copy utilities enable to successfully transfer all on-disk information

including standard bootstrap code and other system service structures, thus maintaining the

operating system’s working capability. In case of a system malfunction, the user can get the system

back on track in minutes. No additional configuration is required, what is very convenient.

The second possible application is the upgrade of a hard disk to a new one. The capacity of a

modern hard drive doubles every two years, thus opening up new possibilities for software

developers. As a result programs become more complicated and require considerable amount of

free space. One day the user realizes that there is no more free space left on the hard disk and the

only way out is to upgrade. Usually that means that besides purchasing a new hard disk, the user is to

face a large re-installation procedure spanning several days of tedious work. But all of this can be

avoided just by copying the contents of the old hard disk to a new one proportionally resizing the

partitions.

And the last but not least is the copying of hard disks for cloning purposes. It may be of great use

when setting up similar computers. There is no need for a system administrator to install an operating

system from scratch on every one of them. It is enough just to configure one and then clone it to the

others.

Drive Partitioning

As you probably know a hard drive is to be split into one or more partitions, since it cannot hold data

until it is carved up and space is set aside for an operating system. Until recently most PCs used to

have just one partition, which filled the entire hard disk and contained an OS. The situation has

changed however, thanks to new cost-effective high capacity hard drives, thus opening up

numerous possibilities for PC users, such as editing video, archiving music, backing up CD images,

etc. Huge increase in space is great, but it poses a number of problems, most important of which are

effective data organization and speed.

Large drives are always going to take longer to search than smaller volumes, and an operating

system is going to have its work cut out both finding and organizing files. It is for this reason that many

people decide to invest in multiple hard drives, but there is an easy solution – drive partitioning.

Partitioning lets you divide a single physical drive into a number of logical drives, each of which

servers as a container with its own drive letter and volume label, thus enabling the operating system

to process data more efficiently. Besides partitioning makes it possible to organize data so that it is

easy to find and manage. You can set aside, for instance, 40 GB of a 160 GB hard drive for the OS,

70 GB for storing video and another 50 GB for your favorite music collections to provide transparent

data storage.

It is also worth mentioning to that with a hard drive properly partitioned, such routine operations as

files de-fragmentation or consistency check will not be that annoying and time-consuming any

more.

By detaching the OS from the rest of the data you can tackle one more crucial issue – in case of a

system malfunction, you can get the system back on track in minutes by recovering it from a backup

image located on the other partition of the hard drive.

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