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Number   :  3730
Date     :  2003-02-18
Author   :  james sadler
Subject  :  Re: XXCopy Questions
Size(KB) :  2


 I suspect that the issue is doing a decent
format of the drive in question. Windows fdisk and
format commands are not the tool to use in many cases.
There is a program called AEFDISK that really will
erase a drive and reformat it when other utilities
fail. If you have experimented with installing various
OSs in the past it is likely that you need AEFDISK.
--- webbot@s... wrote:
> That's what I don't understand..they tout it to back
> up to a new drive..so what is the answer to their
> restore?..--webbot
> 
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: J. Merrill 
> To: xxcopy@yahoogroups.com 
> Sent: Monday, February 17, 2003 6:59 AM
> Subject: Re: [xxcopy] XXCopy Questions
> 
> 
> It would work to FDISK and format the drive, then
> restore -- but how would you be running a copy of
> Windows (which you need to have long-filename
> support) if you had just formatted the drive that's
> running Windows?
> 
> If you had a bootable drive with a bare-bones copy
> of Windows, you could fix any other drive using
> XXCOPY and then switch the drive you boot from.
> 
> At 10:03 PM 2/16/2003 -0600, webbot@s...
> wrote
> >If I fdisked and formatted a corrupt drive then
> would the restore be ok?..and do you mean I would
> have to reinstall win98se again before doing my
> restore..I am not quite understanding you..--Phyllis
> > ----- Original Message ----- 
> > From: J. Merrill 
> > To: xxcopy@yahoogroups.com 
> > Sent: Sunday, February 16, 2003 9:55 PM
> > Subject: Re: [xxcopy] XXCopy Questions
> >
> >
> > If your USB drive is set up so that it has a
> disk drive letter and is usable by Windows Explorer,
> then XXCOPY can be used with it.
> >
> > You can easily use only part of the big drive
> with XXCOPY. I've done that; I XXCOPY from two
> machines named X and Y to directories J:\X\ and
> J:\Y\ so the only part of the big drive associated
> with each is its respective directory (and subdirs).
> >
> > Restoring back to a _corrupt_ drive is probably
> not a wise choice -- how would you know that
> whatever corruption is on the drive would be removed
> by bringing old data back?
> >
> > If the corrupt / new drive is the system's main
> drive (C:), the best approach to get back where you
> were would probably be to install Windows into a
> different directory than the original, use XXCOPY to
> bring everything back that had been there before,
> and coax Windows into booting from the restored copy
> of Windows.
> >
> > In general, recovery of a damaged Windows
> system without a reinstall from scratch is
> problematic, due to the feeble "architecture" of the
> system.
> 
> 
> J. Merrill / Analytical Software Corp
> 
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