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Number   :  4479
Date     :  2003-04-30
Author   :  CBFalconer
Subject  :  Re: The Partition thing (OT?)
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Kan Yabumoto wrote:
> 
... snip ...
> 
> ----------------------------------------------------
> One big benefit of the driveletter assignment
> scheme used by NT/2K/XP is that the driveletters
> remain the same even if one disk accidentally
> fails at the system boot time ---- it could lead
> to a disaster if you don't notice such a problem
> and perform a daily-backup (XXCOPY C:\ D:\ /CLONE).
> -----------------------------------------------------

I believe you can verify this by use of the disk volume label
and/or volume serial num. You could restrict the verification to
the use of root directories, as above (but watch out for SUBST
drives). Where to keep the information is another problem - maybe
a configuration file?

Of course for XP cloning you need to make those labels/serial
identical, which complicates things :-(

-- 
Chuck F (cbfalconer@y...) (cbfalconer@w...)
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