clone or copy youre hard drive !!!

[Flamer]

You don't need any program,
If you would like to clone your hard drive using the DOS command
Xcopy, do the following:
Be sure the drive you've installed in the slave position as Drive D,
has a primary partition and is formatted.

You will need to format a used drive by opening My Computer, right
click Drive D, select Format > Full and select Display summary and
Copy System Files.

When your drive to be copied to is formatted, close all open programs
and go to Start > Run type XCOPY C:\*.* D:\ /c/h/e/k/r, click OK.

A DOS window will open to your desktop and when you are queried about
overwriting, simply answer "yes" each time.
This will work, even in an XP environment.

when youre done close windows and turn the pc off and then take the
old harddrive out.
put the new one in (first make sure you change the jumper to master)
change youre old drive to a slave postionor cs(cable select) and turn
on and youre set unless youre bios has to be configured manually!!!

works for and it's the easiest way to do it!!!

 

[Ron Martell]

You don't need any program,
If you would like to clone your hard drive using the DOS command
Xcopy, do the following:
Be sure the drive you've installed in the slave position as Drive D,
has a primary partition and is formatted.

You will need to format a used drive by opening My Computer, right
click Drive D, select Format > Full and select Display summary and
Copy System Files.

When your drive to be copied to is formatted, close all open programs
and go to Start > Run type XCOPY C:\*.* D:\ /c/h/e/k/r, click OK.

A DOS window will open to your desktop and when you are queried about
overwriting, simply answer "yes" each time.
This will work, even in an XP environment.

when youre done close windows and turn the pc off and then take the
old harddrive out.
put the new one in (first make sure you change the jumper to master)
change youre old drive to a slave postionor cs(cable select) and turn
on and youre set unless youre bios has to be configured manually!!!

works for and it's the easiest way to do it!!!

It can work, but it can also fail quite badly because of corruption of
the short (8+3) names for files that use long file names.

When XCOPY (or COPY or Windows Explorer) copies a file that uses a
long file name only the long file name is copied. The short (8+3)
version of the file is recreated after the copy is made.

This can, and does, result in a copied file having a different short
(8+3) file name than the original version of the file. As the sort
names are used extensively in the Windows registry and other places
(search the registry for references to micros~1 to get an idea of how
important the short file names are) the change in the short names can
result in serious problems, including programs or even Windows itself
failing to load.

See http://onlinehelp.bc.ca/tips#newdisk for a simple illustration as
to just how this name corruption can occur.




Ron Martell Duncan B.C. Canada
--
Microsoft MVP
On-Line Help Computer Service
http://onlinehelp.bc.ca

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