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Skriven 2005-02-04 08:21:48 av Tom Walker (1:202/1324)
     Kommentar till en text av Jean Parrot
Ärende: Imaging
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->  TW> As far as I know XXCopy32 will copy to anyplace that can be seen
->  TW> under "Windows Explorer".
->  TW> IF it will really do a bootable copy using the "H" switch you may have
->  TW> found what you want

->         Let us hope that it might be it. More fun is about.
->          Thanks.

 Well some Good News and Bad News on XXCOPY. The Bad news is it is not
the one Alan is talking about(The one included with MS Windows. but the
GOOD news is that it is a FREE program for personnal use.
 Then more good News in that it can be used to clone(copy to another
Drive and after a couple of additional operations have that disk 
Bootable. The Bad News for that point is that it presently dosne't work
with any Windows version above WinME. 


 It is really a fantastic program though and has about 200 "Switches
Suported"
Some of which go over my head as far as practailty goes. Example. Like
in the old DOS xcopy you can set it to only transfer files based on a
file Date. Well XXCOPY expands that so you not only set a Date but also
And Hour, Minute or Second. IE; /da#303S would back up and file newer
then 330 Seconds Old!!

Here is a clip I got form the authors web site
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The disk clone operation has become one of the most popular usages of
the XXCOPY utility.  Therefore, I decided to have this dedicated
page just for the subject.  But, if you just arrived at this page
for the first time and have not really learned much about XXCOPY,
I would like to remind you that this Disk Clone capability is rather
a small portion of what XXCOPY can do for you.  If you are in a hurry,
go ahead and finish your disk clone job by following the instructions
below.  But, I suggest you come back and explore the rest of XXCOPY.

In this article, I would like to discuss the most common case of
disk cloning operation.  Some related topics which were once part
of this article are moved to another page, XXTB #20.

Note:  The technique discussed in this article applies primarily
       for Windows 9x and ME cases.  If your C: drive is loaded
       with Win NT4/2000/XP, you will not get a bootable disk.  If you
       have a dual-boot system (Win 9X and NT/2000/XP), then it is best
       you perform the operation from Win 9x.  But even in that case,
       the newly cloned drive will not be dual-bootable because XXCOPY
       does not touch the Master Boot Record (MBR) of a hard disk
       (we believe it should be handled by FDISK or other tools).

       As of this writing, we do not have a simple solution to reliably
       produce a bootable system disk for an NT4/2000/XP system using
       the XXCOPY utility.


System Disk Cloning:

    Say, you bought a hard disk with an astronomical number of bytes
    (at least, it seems that way for now), and you want to install
    your new drive as your system disk (Drive C:).

    Typically, you would connect the brand new drive to the EIDE
    port (either as the primary port's slave or the secondary port's
    master or slave --- whichever is available on your computer).
    Most new disk drives have the jumper setting printed on the top
    cover of the drive (the selection involves only master/slave).

    The overall procedure goes like this:  first, you connect the
    new drive and assign a temporary drive letter to it.  Then, copy
    the contents of the current Drive C: to the new drive's volume.
    Usually, the new drive has more capacity than the old one.
    Therefore, you can copy the entire C: drive to the new drive
    and still you will have much free space.  After the files are
    copied from the old drive to the new one, you will remove the
    old drive and place the new one as Drive C:.  It is quite
    straightforward.  Here, I assume your new drive will be
    temporarily assigned as Drive D:.

    Summarizing this, the sequence is as follows:

       . connect the new drive as D:
       . FDISK                         (initialize a partition)
       . FORMAT D:                     (init volume for file access)
       . XXCOPY C:\ D:\  /CLONE        (copy all the files)
       . connect the new drive as C:
       . FDISK                         (set active partition)



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