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Number   :  2419
Date     :  2002-07-07
Author   :  Joseph Fenn
Subject  :  Re: Just need to clone an XP HDD to a newer, larger drive
Size(KB) :  1


Well Ken as regards file backups in entirety, I was'nt referring to your
xxcopy, I was referring to the old xcopy32. Myself and others tried
backing up all files with it, then just checking the properties of the
HD c: drive to see if the backup bytes count more or less equaled what
was on the harddrive. We did that with zips, supderidks, etc to see if
it actually got everything. The byte counts of the backup volume and
the original byte count on the c: drive prior to the attempt was a
huge difference. Not just one or 2 files or even just a dozen or so
I'm talking about many more than that. It was determined that
when in windows then dropping down to dos7 to do the above using
xcopy, there were too many files still active in windows and were not
handled because they apparently were still active even though we tried
it from dos. With xxcopy is something new and we havent even got that
far yet with it. Dont know what you mean exactly "using xxcopy
thru a dos window". We did it the only way practial to do it.
In windows, go to start, then RUN, then type in the command line
xxcopy c:\ f:\ /clone /yy /sp (of course using DirectCD not
easy CD creator!). If the /yy switch is not used then we would
be prompted over and over endlessly (as I understand from your
documentation). This would make xxcopy an excruciatingly painful
way to do a file backup. It appeared to be doing the job nicely
till it came to the "disk full" "insert new disk" prompt. At that
point "touching any key" would produce no further action. We
tried this on CD-R/W's that were formatted to receive data.
No joy!! We tried again on CD-R's that were setup with
DirectCD to be treated as any disk for data. Still no joy!.
Joe


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