Re: Cloning a hard drive: XCOPY versus COPY (Recovery Console)

At Fri, 30 May 2003 18:43:28 GMT, "charms321" <charms321@hotmail.com>
reached down, grabbed what he thought was the keyboard and started stroking
in microsoft.public.win2000.setup:

> A Win2KPro root drive clone procedure in "quickfixes -
> Windows
> 2000" http://www.bookpool.com/.x/q8jnzn47x1/sm/0596000170
> contains the following, edited steps:
>
> 1. Open a console prompt. At the command prompt type the
> following command:
>
> XCOPY C:\ D:\ /h /i /c /k /e /r
>
> 2. Holding down the Shift key to prevent an autorun,
> insert
> the Windows 2000 CD. Open a console prompt and change
> to
> the \i386 folder on the CD.
>
> 3. Execute the following command to install the Windows
> 2000
> Recovery Console:
>
> WINNT32 /cmdcons
>
> 4. After the Recovery Console is installed, choose
> Start ->
> Programs -> Administrative Tools -> Local Security
> Policy
> to open the Local Security Settings console.
>
> !! If the Administrative Tools menu doesn't appear on
> the
> start menu, open the folder from the Control Panel.
>
> 5. Enable full functionality of the set command by
> adding and
> configuring the "Group Policy" snap-in to the
> Recovery
> console using the steps outlined at the bottom of:
>
>
> http://www.microsoft.com/windows200...info/reskit/en-
> us/prork/pref_tts_pnzw.asp
>
> 6. Restart the system and boot the option, "Microsoft
> Windows
> 2000 Recovery Console."
>
> 7. In the Recovery Console, enter the following command
> to
> enable you to access the new volume:
>
> set AllowAllPaths = TRUE
>
> 8. Change to the C:\Winnt\System32\Config folder, then
> use the
> COPY command to copy all of the files in the folder to
> D:\Winnt\System32\Config. Because COPY doesn't support
> wildcards, you'll have to copy the files one at a
> time.
> (This step copies the registery from the current
> installation
> to the new one.) Make sure you copy them all.
>
> 9. Power off the system. Reconfigure the new, drive as
> the
> master and the old drive as the slave.
>
> 10. Reboot the system from using the new drive as root.

Everything worked great up to this point ... when trying to boot off the
cloned drive, it clears BIOS but then says "PRESS A KEY TO REBOOT".

Anyone with thoughts here? Please include the NG with any direct replies.


thanks


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