From: Allan Ballard (aballard_at_ix.netcom.com)
Date: Thu Feb 01 2001 - 20:16:42 EST
I have moved Win95 to a new, larger drive
about 5 times using XCopy, and never a problem. The
drives all had one big C:\ partition; I guess
it might get trickier with more partitions.
I quit using Xcopy for this purpose when Drive Copy
came out, just cuz it seems easier and handles
multiple partitions.
I am about to try the current version of Drive Copy
to see if it will move a multi-OS drive (DOS; Win3.11;
NT 4.0; WARP4.5) to a 40 gig drive. Drive Copy
will probably do something stupid like expand all the
partitions to fit the drive, and exceed the FAT limits
for DOS and Win as well as NT (which is on FAT).
Wish me luck!
Allan Ballard
-----Original Message-----
From: Mark Bell <electrosoft_at_earthlink.net>
To: thinkpad_at_cs.utk.edu <thinkpad_at_cs.utk.edu>
Date: Thursday, February 01, 2001 2:21 PM
Subject: Re: XCOPY does NOT clone a drive!
>I've xcopy32'd well over 50 times, and I haven't encountered this well
>documented
>problem (I read it, compared registry readings, recounted the # of times
>Windows
>lost track of files, stepped through my registry, said, "oh well, It's only
>a file
>association! I can fix that myself or I can run nbg registry fixer!)). :)
>If anyone wants a caveat
>and good read on it, try:
>
>http://navasgrp.home.att.net/tech/clone_copy.htm
>
>I am curious as to who on the list has encountered a problem with Xcopy32
and
>file name associations? But in reflection of Michael's words, be careful of
>using
>Xcopy32 unless you are potentially comfortable working with regedit,
parsing
>registries in a real dos session, or uncomfortable with DOS as a whole. If
you
>want the safe, easy way, go with one of the tried and tested cloning
solutions.
>I'm very cheap (er, frugal), and feel comfortable with the Windows registry
and
>DOS on all fronts, so it doesn't phase me. I welcome the day it happens....
>BRING IT ON!!!! >;-)
>
>Mark
>
>At 10:15 AM 2/1/01 -0800, you wrote:
>>Folks, there is a *big* problem with using XCOPY to clone a drive. It does
>>not guarantee that you'll get the same short filename aliases on the new
>>drive.
>>
>>Mark, you said you've used XCOPY a number of times successfully. You've
been
>>very lucky that you haven't gotten bit by the short filename problem. But
>>keep at it and you will... <g>
>
>
>
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