Copy An Entire Hard Disk

[squ1r3ll]

This may sound a bit stupid but I was watching Hustle about 2 hours ago and they did one of those press one button and everything copies across. No matter how much I Google, I cannot find the right kind of program for it... Does anybody know what I can use? Thank you in advance for your help.
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[itsmeJonB]

movies are magical

 

[squ1r3ll]

movies are magical

It can be done though. I just can't find the exact program...

 

[Hans]

I dont know of a program that would do it by itself, but you just copy files from hard disk-->whatever storage. It really is as simple as that. You may have to close a few programs/ignore a few which are in use by the computer using the harddrive, unless you self-power the harddrive.

Ive done it before, copied my old desktops laptop to my laptops harddrive. Just powered the harddrive on its own and copied the whole thing.

 

[squ1r3ll]

Well I could do that yes but I was looking for something more specific that would start up automatically as soon as a memory stick was inserted. I have found something but it's not properly automated. I could do with a script or something that I can setup an autorun.inf file for...

 

[Tuffdisc]

One button copy? Wow....that is purely fictional for us normal folks. Maybe for law enforcements.....aka spies, yeah....probably the case, or some known hackers

 

[Hans]

youre not going to make a successful copy of an in-use harddrive without quite a few kill programs/scripts. where as you could easily make a script to simply copy a file from drive ____ (the harddrive) to your intended drive.

Honestly though, if youre trying to steal information from a harddrive, which is the only reason I can think of in which youd make a copy, on-boot script, I can already tell you taht youre probably making a mistake. especially if youre asking how to do it on an internet forum of this nature

 

[squ1r3ll]

youre not going to make a successful copy of an in-use harddrive without quite a few kill programs/scripts. where as you could easily make a script to simply copy a file from drive ____ (the harddrive) to your intended drive.

Honestly though, if youre trying to steal information from a harddrive, which is the only reason I can think of in which youd make a copy, on-boot script, I can already tell you taht youre probably making a mistake. especially if youre asking how to do it on an internet forum of this nature

I am not intending to steal anything from anyone, I'm not that kind of person. It would just be easier than having to copy everything that I wanted or pull out the hard drive and copy it in slave or something like that.