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Number   :  5193
Date     :  2003-08-01
Author   :  Bob Weir
Subject  :  Re: xxcopy CLONE win/me to USB drive -- problem
Size(KB) :  1


Rod wrote about slow cloning of a drive via USB1: -

> Indeed! About 3 hours for the larger C: disk -- although
I'm not
> sure what you mean by "transient errors". The C:D: combo is
my
> production system, in use daily. And I do run SCANDISK at
least
> weekly, as part of my backup and general health program.

I think 3GB/Hr is an upper limit for USB1. My boards won't
run a USB disk in safe mode which usually provides faster
cloning for IDE connected disks. My "transient" comment was
unhelpful but was triggered by memories of a spell when I had
an intermittent PSU which caused multiple copy fails and
several consequential re-clones before final success. USB
connectors may also make an intermittent connection but
neither of these causes seems relevant here.


> > I think I would have
> > booted the new drive and then tried to copy and verify
data
> > from the old
>
> How, without first placing /something/ on the new drive to
boot
> into?

I hesitated to suggest Kan's Quick Boot or minimal windows
approaches since this is a simple and robust /clone operation.
I've used USB cloning successfully on two desktop machines,
albeit with the same disk in a USB2 external enclosure (on
USB1). I have never used /MBR on a USB connected disk.

Apart from starting again with an EBD and preparing the
(clean) new disk on the old disks IDE connection before USB
cloning, I'm stumped.

Bob



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