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Number   :  536
Date     :  2001-08-06
Author   :  plumb_bob_1@y...
Subject  :  Re: xxcopy and FAT
Size(KB) :  1


> > Frank
> > 
> > > Go ye quickly to the Microsoft site and get the
> latest version of Format.com .. The older versions of
> format on larger drives just do not work right.

Thanks for the replies! I did manage to get the drive bootable 
again. I stuck the drive back in the computer that I believe it was 
originally formatted/fdisked in, booted with a boot disk of the same 
OS as the cloned image, and was able to sys the drive. Some of the 
apps were a bit buggy for some reason, but it boots and I can get to 
the data, which is all I really wanted anyway.

What I'm still unclear on is the FAT16 vrs FAT32 issue. All of the 
HDs that I successfully cloned were all FAT32 to begin with. Does 
xxcopy care about this? In other words, lets say you have an 
existing FAT16 bootable volume and you are xxcopy /clone-ing it to a 
new drive with FAT32 /large disk support enabled. Is that OK???

Also, what I did before was to clone a bootable FAT32 volume to a HD 
on a Win95A system (over the LAN) that does NOT support FAT32 at all.
Was that a mistake? When I put the cloned volume back in the PC I was 
cloning from, it was no longer FAT32, but now was FAT16.

Thank-you!

Frank



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