RE: XCOPY does NOT clone a drive!

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From: James H. E. Maugham (CaptJHEM_at_waterw.com)
Date: Thu Feb 01 2001 - 23:52:33 EST

Allan,

Allan Ballard [mailto:aballard_at_ix.netcom.com] wrote:

> 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).

It won't enlarge the partitions unless you tell it to. If you're concerned about
it though, you can always elect to perform a partition by partition copy rather
than a complete HD copy.

Regards,

James

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