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Number   :  4086
Date     :  2003-03-21
Author   :  Bud Man
Subject  :  Re: My XXCOPY Experiences
Size(KB) :  1


Yes, I've tried it with two identical drives. The data copies fine, 
but the drive boots only to the startup screen, and hangs from there. 
There's just enough of a difference between 2000 and XP to prevent it 
from cloning completely. Oh well. At least I can do all the other 
OS's...

PEACE
Bud
--- In xxcopy@yahoogroups.com, "Bob Weir"  wrote:
> Have you tried your three disk scheme to clone XP between two
> "identical" disks - that is the same make,size,type etc? I
> suspect XP may check the volume serial numbers to prevent such
> "unauthorised" duplication but I hope it cannot exclude a slave
> disk which was present at XP installation time from being used as
> master (after cloning) with the original master re-set as the
> slave. Glad that someone is trying the third disk method for a
> bootable XP clone and hope you are successful. It won't be too
> bad if just the initial clone to a bootable disk needs the third
> disk, provided that subsequent re-cloning between just two disks
> is O.K. The third disk is also a way to avoid the delays from
> "always in use" _RESTORE files in ME (&XP?) but, with a restart
> included would probably not save time overall.
> Regards,
> 
> Bob



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