Re: Ghost vs XCOPY

From: Allan Ballard (aballard_at_ix.netcom.com)
Date: Sun Feb 04 2001 - 04:11:51 EST

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It was not obvious to me
when this technique was first
discussed soon after Win9x
came out, and bears repeating
every now and again.

-----Original Message-----
From: James H. E. Maugham <CaptJHEM_at_waterw.com>
To: Allan Ballard <aballard_at_ix.netcom.com>; Matt Winston
<mattwinston_at_ameritech.net>; Thinkpad Users Group <thinkpad_at_cs.utk.edu>; Dr.
Jeffrey Race <jrace_at_attglobal.net>
Date: Saturday, February 03, 2001 2:41 PM
Subject: RE: Ghost vs XCOPY

>Allan,
>
>Allan Ballard [mailto:aballard_at_ix.netcom.com] wrote:
>
>> Just to note the not-so-obvious, the xcopy32 command
>> must be run from within a DOS window, not from "real"
>> DOS.
>
>That's what "The command to clone a drive WITHIN Windows 9x is:" means!
>(Emphasis added.)
>
>Seems pretty obvious to me.
>
>Regards,
>
>James
>
>

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