cloning to external USB hd question

[!Allen Lasting]

Hi,

Lately I've been fixing a lot of old P2's running win95 or 98.
These are boxes used by children in their homes. I volunter to fix
them when they stop booting, etc. They are gradually learning not to
put tiddley winks and baseball cards in the floppy drives.

I was wondering;
could I use XXcopy and just copy a drive to an external usb hard drive, so
I could then copy the data back when it gets screwed up? These are usually
1.2 or 1.6 gig
hard drives so I could easily put the entire drive contents on my external
80 gig WD.
The old boxes don't have USB ports, but I have a card that usually works in
them.
I also have a P2 350 that does have USB so I thought I could take the borked
drive,
put it in the 350 as a slave, copy fm the external drive, and then put it
back in the
old computer as a master again, thus speeding the whole thing up, etc.

Thanks for any ideas on this.

Al

 

[!Allen Lasting]

I've been laboring away at this without success.
I'm using Xxcopy and have successfully cloned drives one to another, but
have not been able to "clone" to a directory on the external drive.
I think my first post may not have been clear.
I want to clone Lauen's hd to a directory on the external drive named Lauen,
etc.

Al

 

[David Maynard]

I've been laboring away at this without success.
I'm using Xxcopy and have successfully cloned drives one to another, but
have not been able to "clone" to a directory on the external drive.
I think my first post may not have been clear.
I want to clone Lauen's hd to a directory on the external drive named Lauen,
etc.

And what, exactly, 'goes wrong' with it?

 

[Frank]

When I put in a command such as:

xxcopy c: d:/lauren clone \\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\^^^^^\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\


I get an error message saying something like the switch isn't
supported. It
was last week so I don't remember exactly what it say.

From your reply I infer it is possible. If it is, I'll go back to
work on
it.

Thanks,

Al

 

[Ralph Wade Phillips]

Howdy!

\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\^^^^^\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\

I suggest re-reading the specs.

CLONE is a CLONE - it's not a "Copy to another directory."

Try "XXCOPY C:\*.* D:\Lauren /R/I/C/H/K/E/Y/S/F" instead.

RwP

 

[DaveW]

Fix your damn System Clock, for your postings!

 

[zealott]

Hi Frank,

I may be too dumb to have a comuter. I can't figure out what your reply
means.

Al

I may be able to help (I know a thing or two about dos). I am not
familiar with the command xxcopy. Do you mean xcopy? What is it you
are trying to do. I never got the initial part of the thread.

 

[Ian Harding]

I may be able to help (I know a thing or two about dos). I am not
familiar with the command xxcopy. Do you mean xcopy? What is it you
are trying to do. I never got the initial part of the thread.

This is the first post I've seen in this thread, but I assume the
previous poster did mean to type xxcopy

<http://www.xxcopy.com/index.htm>

Ian

 

[!Allen Lasting]

When I put in a command such as:

xxcopy c: d:/lauren clone

I get an error message saying something like the switch isn't supported. It
was last week so I don't remember exactly what it say.

From your reply I infer it is possible. If it is, I'll go back to work on
it.

Thanks,

Al

 

[!Allen Lasting]

Hi Frank,

I may be too dumb to have a comuter. I can't figure out what your reply
means.

Al