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Old 02-26-2006, 07:41 PM   #3 (permalink)
cyrnel
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Yes, it can be done, but it's a bit painful. There are numerous ways to make mistakes and burn a day recovering. I've never written it up so I'm hesitant to send you into a culdesac.

Is one drive all C and the other all D?

The easiest way would be like Redjake said. If you have a third drive. Even if temporarily. Clone C to X, D to C, and X to D. Exchange C and D drives (cable & master/slave positions) as needed. Done.

If you want to get sick and there's free space on one drive for the contents of the other, you could say save D to an image file on C, clone C to D, exchange hardware positions, then restore the image of D.

Clone utils can be expensive or free, though the free ones usually require a bit more care. Free ones don't generally handle image files gracefully.

This kind of thing isn't needed much anymore with the price of drives.
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