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Bill Cunningham said:
In old msdos and win98 systems there was a command you could use to
transfer the system to another partition. It was called sys.com or was
that sys.exe. Anyway what's XP mce's equivalent?
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Clone the partition with appropriate software or install or do a clean
install to the new partition, but then you will still have to deal with the
issue of booting and where the boot files are located.
 
Bill Cunningham said:
In old msdos and win98 systems there was a command you could use to
transfer the system to another partition. It was called sys.com or was that
sys.exe. Anyway what's XP mce's equivalent?

Bill
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Do you want to transfer WinXP to a different partition or to
a different disk?
 
In old msdos and win98 systems there was a command you could use to
transfer the system to another partition. It was called sys.com or was that
sys.exe. Anyway what's XP mce's equivalent?

Bill
 
Bill Cunningham said:
In old msdos and win98 systems there was a command you could use to
transfer the system to another partition. It was called sys.com or was that
sys.exe. Anyway what's XP mce's equivalent?
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SYS merely transferred necessary MSDOS files to a floppy so that it
would be bootable.

Nothing exists in XP that is equivalent.
 
I have copied XP OS to different partitions & HDD ~10 times using
PMagic. 4 yrs been dual booting XP but never with 2000 or NT or..

My 2 XP's r 1st 2 partitions in HDD- 1 is always active & other is
always hidden. 2 OS differ only in apps on them & boot.ini's. I use NO
special boot routine. I can post 2 boot.ini's if u want.

HTH-Larry

In old msdos and win98 systems there was a command you could use to
transfer the system to another partition. It was called sys.com or was that
sys.exe. Anyway what's XP mce's equivalent?

Bill
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Any advice is my attempt to contribute more than I have received but I can only assure you that it works on my PC. GOOD LUCK.
 
That's my problem. I don't want every partion in the mbr of the entire
hardrive. I want to switch active partitions and boot xp off of a d: drive
and reboot and it becomes c: drive. The new active drive.
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It would help if your post was clear and explicit in what you want to
accomplish. Folks are not mind readers.
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Do you want to transfer WinXP to a different partition or to
a different disk?
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A different partition. But it has its own drive letter. I have 4
partitions now. The large one XP is on. I am going to put some other OSs on
the others but using bootcfg and fixmbr gives me problems. Somehow c:
becomes a different partiion with bootloader info and my active partion is
H: with only pagefil.sys present.

Bill
 
Clone the partition with appropriate software or install or do a clean
install to the new partition, but then you will still have to deal with
the issue of booting and where the boot files are located.
Click to expand...

That's my problem. I don't want every partion in the mbr of the entire
hardrive. I want to switch active partitions and boot xp off of a d: drive
and reboot and it becomes c: drive. The new active drive.

Bill
 
Bill Cunningham said:
A different partition. But it has its own drive letter. I have 4
partitions now. The large one XP is on. I am going to put some other OSs on
the others but using bootcfg and fixmbr gives me problems. Somehow c:
becomes a different partiion with bootloader info and my active partion is
H: with only pagefil.sys present.

Bill
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This makes it a little clearer. Here is a method you can use
to copy the system partition of an existing Windows installation:
1. Give each partition a proper label so that you can recognise
it even when you do not see its usual drive letter.
2. Make yourself a Bart PE boot CD.
3. Boot the machine with the Bart PE boot CD.
4. Use this command to copy the partition:
xcopy /s /e /d /y /c /o C:\*.* E:\
(assuming that E: is the drive letter for the target partition)

Please note:
- It will take you a few hours to make a Bart PE CD. However,
it's a terrific tool that you will use extensively.
- You are likely to get into problems with your system drive
letter.
- It is possible that you will end up with a mixed system: Windows
might use parts of the old and parts of the new partition.
 
Its called sys.com for msdos. It copies the boot files only, and sets the
pointer in the primary partition towards them for booting on a hard drive.
Does not transfer the entire operating system.
 
It would help if your post was clear and explicit in what you want to
accomplish. Folks are not mind readers.
Making Good Newsgroup Posts
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This is kind of difficult to explain. I want to copy all boot files to
another partition. Meaning ntldr boot.ini and other necessary files I
haven't mentioned. Oh yes, how do I get that file bootsect.dos back ?

Bill
 
This makes it a little clearer. Here is a method you can use
to copy the system partition of an existing Windows installation:
1. Give each partition a proper label so that you can recognise
it even when you do not see its usual drive letter.
2. Make yourself a Bart PE boot CD.
3. Boot the machine with the Bart PE boot CD.
4. Use this command to copy the partition:
xcopy /s /e /d /y /c /o C:\*.* E:\
(assuming that E: is the drive letter for the target partition)

Please note:
- It will take you a few hours to make a Bart PE CD. However,
it's a terrific tool that you will use extensively.
- You are likely to get into problems with your system drive
letter.
- It is possible that you will end up with a mixed system: Windows
might use parts of the old and parts of the new partition.
Click to expand...

What about coping just the system files? Is that what xcopy's /h switch
is for?

Bill
 
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