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Number   :  2854
Date     :  2002-09-27
Author   :  Kan Yabumoto
Subject  :  Re: Gentlemen: I will not give up.....
Size(KB) :  2



Folks:

Lately, the spam attacks to this discussion group have
reached a new level. They take the extra steps to
becoming a member of this group and then post their
useless messages. It is unbelievable. Please ignore
*ALL* of them. In the meantime, I will diligently
delete all such messages and remove the author from the
group (albeit, with little effect). Although it is
too late for me for the messages that are mailed to
the subscribers, I should still remove the "noise"
from the archived messages.


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I will post what angmed had to say in his last
message (which I must delete because it contained
a spam message) with my response to it.

At 2002-09-26 18:35, angmed wrote:

>After trying to Clone a C:\ drive several times without success, even 
>after reading the very well written and complete explanation from XXcopy's 
>Website, I'm compelled to ask for a command line from you which might 
>help me do it correctly once and for all while copying the empty directories..
>
>Running a SCSI system with three drives and will format the D:\, use it as 
>the C:\ drive and take out the one I'm now using as C:\ for another new 
>system. And also, CLONE the new C:\ to be used as a back up if 
>needed. Thanks indeed.
>
>angmed@p...

My suggestion is simply

xxcopy c:\ d:\ /clone /pz0

It won't copy everything (the system registry, etc.) for
WinNT/2K/XP. But, the work around is to install the
second set of Windows on another volume and boot into
the second Windows before you run the above command to
copy everything. I know it is not a perfect solution.
But, as I have said in XXTB #36, creating the perfect,
bootable replica of a system disk has never been the
primary objective of the XXCOPY utility, we are not putting
all of our engineering efforts on this issue. We are
currently working other "more important" area. The reason
why you don't find a perfect answer for this problem
is because we simply don't have one.

Kan Yabumoto



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