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Number   :  5451
Date     :  2003-09-01
Author   :  Kan Yabumoto
Subject  :  Re: Locked System (Open) Files
Size(KB) :  2



DES wrote:

> To Garry, J. Merril, and All,
>
> I've hesitated posting all this 'competition' to xxcopy
> on it's own forum. But as an incentive to get Kan to
> included this badly need feature, here goes nothing.

Thanks for your consideration. But, please do not
hesitate posting any topic including competing products
of XXCOPY as long as the subject is somewhat relevant
to our forum (no spam, of course). We can learn a great
deal about competing products from such messages.



> Are you reading this Kan? What an opportunity to get All
> the necessary components into one package. Copying files
> is One part, and you've got that one! Copying Locked\Open
> files is the second (please!). But don't forget the
> (actually quite simple) Drive Letter Assignment to
> Physical Drive maniplation.

As I said a few times before, we are working on the new
XXCLONE product which is capable of making a bootable
clone for any Windows version. It will be a GUI based
program with just a few options. Its main feature is
simplicity. We plan to add the capability that will
copy practically all stubborn files (open/locked) which
typically require some form of booting into a temporary
environment.

As to manipulating the drive letters, XXCLONE will do
just a bare minimum to assign the newly cloned volume to
the original volume's drive letter (aside from that,
the user is free to use the diskmgmt.msc applet to
manipulate the drive letter at will).

Since the new product accesses the hard disk using
low-level device I/O, we want to make sure that the
product is completely safe for anyone.

We will announce it in this forum when XXCOPY become
ready for a public beta testing.

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If I read it correctly, DES wants to "restore" the
working Windows system from its backup. XXCLONE will
not let you do so. However, one can always boot into
the cloned (backup) volume first and perform a new
volume clone operation from there to the original
volume to accomplish the same thing. In general,
there are many files that are "active" (cannot be
overwritten) when Windows is running. It is best
that the destination volume to be something other
than the current system volume.
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Kan Yabumoto.



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