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Number   :  5532
Date     :  2003-09-11
Author   :  Kan Yabumoto
Subject  :  Re: XXClone only for NTFS ?
Size(KB) :  2



John Fitzsimons wrote:

>I copied an XP Fat32 system to a NTFS drive and everything seemed to
>go okay. Swapping drives allowed bootup of the NTFS drive.

That's what we always want to hear :-)

>When however I copied the XP Fat32 system to a FAT32 drive I couldn't
>then get it to complete the process after swapping the (removable)
>drive and putting it in as C:. Like I had before. I got "invalid
>system disk".
>Doesn't XXClone copy XP Fat32 systems to a Fat32 drive ?

It should work the FAT32 -> FAT32 case which is as straightforward
as the first case (should be easier).

OK, let's get into debugging mode. (The operation seems quite
simple on the surface, but it's messier inside :-(

Please run the following command from a DOS Box.

xxclone /diag

This procedure simply generates a list of sector-dump of
the key sectors on your system. It will not do any
cloning job --- it just terminates after the dump. It may have
unusual partition configuration. As I noted yesterday in one of my
responses to Dan Anderson, we may have some work to do when
the MBR contains unusual partition configuration (e.g., EZBIOS).
So, the diagnostic info may reveal something unexpected.
You should find C:\XXCLONE.DAT file.

Apparently, your FAT32 to FAT32 cloning goes all the way to
the end, you should be able to invoke the /debug switch
at the command line

xxclone /debug

In this instance, XXCLONE will go ahead and finish the cloning
job. At the same time, it creates the log file at
C:\XXCLONE.LOG. Please zip the file and send it to me
for further analysis. BTW, you need not run the lengthy
full backup (option 1). Rather, do the incremental backup
(option 2 or 3), or even the quickest one (option 4 for
registry transfer only without backup). The bulk of the
FAT32 target is already synchronized from your previous runs.
To come to think of it, it's neat that we can skip the
most time-consuming part.

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Wait a second, when I re-read your short report, you
said "(removable)" in parenthesis. What does it mean?
Is the target volume something like a USB-disk (the
inside drive is typically a generic IDE drive). Although
this should also work, I haven't got around to test
this scenario (I only did my mental experiments on this).

Also, I forgot to ask what is the virtual memory setting?
You can check the settings by

Ctrl-Panel > Advanced > Performance > Settings > Advanced
> Change

You should find a list of volumes and the Paging File Size.
While you can designate as many drives for the virtual
memory storage, you should make the "current" (the volume
that contains the windows system directory --- usually C:)
to be one of the virtual memory swap file locations.

Please send the info directly to my email address.

Kan Yabumoto



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