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I won't bore you with the reasons, but I need to make a complete duplicate of
my windows directory including all system & hidden files (i.e. 'Copy of
Windows') without the dreaded 'File In Use' stopping me.
It must be possible because my Acronis backup software does it, but using
that entails dumping the entire Windows directory to somewhere else and then
I probably won't have sufficient disk space to restore it to a renamed
directory, when all I want to do is copy it directly...
I've tried booting to Safe Mode with Command Prompt, but that's not like
Boot to DOS was in good-ol' W98, because it loads stuff that will presumably
prevent me using xcopy anyway as soon as it encounters some damn .dll or
something that's In Use.
What is Shadow Copy, and would it do the trick? I'm using a beaten-up
laptop with XP Pro + SP2.
my windows directory including all system & hidden files (i.e. 'Copy of
Windows') without the dreaded 'File In Use' stopping me.
It must be possible because my Acronis backup software does it, but using
that entails dumping the entire Windows directory to somewhere else and then
I probably won't have sufficient disk space to restore it to a renamed
directory, when all I want to do is copy it directly...
I've tried booting to Safe Mode with Command Prompt, but that's not like
Boot to DOS was in good-ol' W98, because it loads stuff that will presumably
prevent me using xcopy anyway as soon as it encounters some damn .dll or
something that's In Use.
What is Shadow Copy, and would it do the trick? I'm using a beaten-up
laptop with XP Pro + SP2.