xcopy

[al hamel]

can u tell me how to xcopy m2k to a formatted drive that
will boot after the copy.... i want to copy everything so
that i dont have to load anything onto the new drive to
make it boot and run..
thanks,
al hamel
(e-mail address removed)

 

[Gregory]

Xcopy does not work that way. You need a drive image
program to do what you are trying. Try this:

http://www.symantec.com/sabu/ghost/ghost_personal/

Ghost can do what you need. Good luck!

Gregory

 

[John Thomas Smith]

Ghost is great if it works for you... I made a backup to CD-r, did not
get any errors, but the CD-r would not read

So, I bought this product
http://www.gogamer.com/cgi-bin/Gogamer.storefront/EN/product/001BACK?AID=307521&PID=603315

Xcopy does not work that way. You need a drive image
program to do what you are trying. Try this:

http://www.symantec.com/sabu/ghost/ghost_personal/

Ghost can do what you need. Good luck!

Gregory

John Thomas Smith
http://www.direct2usales.com
http://www.pacifier.com/~jtsmith

 

[Guest]

thanks gregory. i will try the symantec sit asap.
al

 

[Ricardo M. Urbano - W2K/NT4 MVP]

can u tell me how to xcopy m2k to a formatted drive that
will boot after the copy.... i want to copy everything so
that i dont have to load anything onto the new drive to
make it boot and run..
thanks,
al hamel
(e-mail address removed)

Al, I've done it many times, but you need to make sure of the following:

1) Install the source and target drives in another machine running W2K
(I assume that's what you meant, and not M2K).
2) Using Disk Management, partition and format the target drive as you
see fit
3) Make sure you mark the 1st primary partition on the target drive
active
4) Let's say one of the source volumes is D: and it's corresponding
target drive letter is G:, issue following command at the command
prompt:

xcopy D:\*.* G:\ /c/h/r/k/i/f/e

hth & gl!