dos, diskcopy

[Lonerider]

Using XP my 8 gig hard drive has only 500 megs left and
is basically full. I added a 40 gig hard drive as a
primary slave. I would like to diskcopy C: d: and make 40
gig the new master primary with 8 gig as primary slave
for backup. Fellow at Office Max says drag from C to D
and drop. Computersays this contains important file , so
you can not do that. I can't seem to find Dos with XP?
Any way of moving this disk (C) to (D) without starting
from scratch? Thanks for any help. Lonerider

 

[Rock]

Using XP my 8 gig hard drive has only 500 megs left and
is basically full. I added a 40 gig hard drive as a
primary slave. I would like to diskcopy C: d: and make 40
gig the new master primary with 8 gig as primary slave
for backup. Fellow at Office Max says drag from C to D
and drop. Computersays this contains important file , so
you can not do that. I can't seem to find Dos with XP?
Any way of moving this disk (C) to (D) without starting
from scratch? Thanks for any help. Lonerider

The new hard drive should have a utility to copy the contents of the old
drive to the new. Or use a disk imaging program such as Norton Ghost,
Acronis True Image or BootItNG. BootItNG has a free, fully functional,
30 day trial.

 

[...D.]

Using XP my 8 gig hard drive has only 500 megs left and
is basically full. I added a 40 gig hard drive as a
primary slave. I would like to diskcopy C: d: and make 40
gig the new master primary with 8 gig as primary slave
for backup. Fellow at Office Max says drag from C to D
and drop. Computersays this contains important file , so
you can not do that. I can't seem to find Dos with XP?
Any way of moving this disk (C) to (D) without starting
from scratch? Thanks for any help. Lonerider

That Office max fellow doesn't know what is going on. There is no true
DOS in XP. It is an emulator or something that has some DOS type stuff in
it. As far as copying over, XP won't do what you want. You need to make
an "image" of your hard drive, so you need a 3rd party program like Norton
Ghost. Drive Image is another (I think same company owns both now). For
your set-up it sounds as if the expense won't be worth it. Install XP
fresh onto the 40 gig drive, I say..

I use Norton Ghost to image my C: drive to an external USB HD I bough just
for the purpose of backing up all and having an image I can copy back over
to a C: drive in case of a crash. Probably never will happen though.

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[Steve N.]

Using XP my 8 gig hard drive has only 500 megs left and
is basically full. I added a 40 gig hard drive as a
primary slave. I would like to diskcopy C: d: and make 40
gig the new master primary with 8 gig as primary slave
for backup. Fellow at Office Max says drag from C to D
and drop. Computersays this contains important file , so
you can not do that. I can't seem to find Dos with XP?
Any way of moving this disk (C) to (D) without starting
from scratch? Thanks for any help. Lonerider

Diskcopy is for making sector by sector copies of floppy diskettes, not
copying the contents of one drive to another. Drag and drop won't copy
system files that are in use, niether will xcopy or any other method of
copying files from the active system disk to another disk, it will
always choke on system files in use. You can use a disk imaging program
or the utilities that came with the new drive. Read instructions.

steve

 

[Don Taylor]

Using XP my 8 gig hard drive has only 500 megs left and
is basically full. I added a 40 gig hard drive as a
primary slave. I would like to diskcopy C: d: and make 40
gig the new master primary with 8 gig as primary slave
for backup. Fellow at Office Max says drag from C to D
and drop. Computersays this contains important file , so
you can not do that. I can't seem to find Dos with XP?
Any way of moving this disk (C) to (D) without starting
from scratch? Thanks for any help. Lonerider

Google for XXCOPY and read his description. Even if you
don't use his free software it looks like he has a lot of
advice for people trying to do this.

 

[Trent©]

Drag and drop won't copy
system files that are in use, niether will xcopy or any other method of
copying files from the active system disk to another disk, it will
always choke on system files in use.

I might be wrong...but I don't think yer correct on that. Unless I'm
misunderstanding what you mean by 'in use'.


Have a nice one...

Trent

Budweiser: Helping ugly people have sex since 1876!

 

[Steve N.]

I might be wrong...but I don't think yer correct on that. Unless I'm
misunderstanding what you mean by 'in use'.


Have a nice one...

Trent

Budweiser: Helping ugly people have sex since 1876!

Lay off the beer and bone up on operating systems for a while. You might
be surprised at all there is to learn. "In Use" means the operating
system (or a process or active progam/apllication) has the file(s) in
question open and active and they cannot be copied. What does "in use"
mean to you?

Hell, don't take my word for it, try it and see for yourself. Set up a
system with two logical drives, the OS on one, let's call it C:, the
other let's call D:. boot up from the OS on C:, do a Start, Run, type in

XCOPY C:\*.* /S D:\

Then post the error messages here.

Steve