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Number   :  4959
Date     :  2003-07-06
Author   :  J. Merrill
Subject  :  Re: restoring a clone to a blank drive
Size(KB) :  1


At 10:42 AM 7/3/2003 +0100, Colin Culpitt-Smith wrote
>Hi Wjburl - many thanks for your very quick response & your excellent
>solution to my restoring problem.
>
>You said, "You already have a clone, why not boot from it and back it up to
>the blank drive? At some point you will have to make the clone a bootable
>drive in order to use it as the primary drive."
>
>Yes, this would be a possibility if I had used two drives, but in my case I
>cloned my C: drive's contents to another partition on the same 40gB drive !
>So I can't make that the boot drive as you suggest!
>
>When I used XXcopy16 to restore the clone back to my C: drive, it did the
>job & Windows runs just fine, apart from a number if files having shortened
>filenames. I then ran XXcopy /NL /E as suggested in the XXcopy help files,
>& this did manage to fix some of Windows files back to their normal long
>filenames, but not all.
>
>This is the XXcopy16 command I used, but could it be improved?
>
>XXCOPY16.exe %drivetwo%:\%folder%\*.* %driveone%:\ /c /e /h /k /r /s /y
>/pb
>
>If you have any further ideas, then I'd be pleased to hear them.
>
>Thanks again.
>
> Colin

It seems to me that if Windows is working ok, you can now use XXCOPY (not XXCOPY16) to copy things back to your C: drive. The only files that won't be copied are the ones that Windows keeps locked, but you can do as Garry suggested and handle those with XXCOPY16 after booting to DOS.

Good luck.

J. Merrill / Analytical Software Corp



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