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Number   :  7746
Date     :  2004-04-22
Author   :  djbrehon
Subject  :  Re: Help needed to clone hard disk
Size(KB) :  1


John,
From Yan's post, it looks like getting a floppy drive is going to be 
necessary. I don't have one on my laptop as they're getting harder 
and harder to find installed already, but I suspect the way to go 
will be to get an external one. I'll be checking my BIOS first too.
Thanks for answering!

--- In xxcopy@yahoogroups.com, "John Zeman"  wrote:
> 
> This probably won't be much help to you Jill as I have not tried 
> xxclone yet. However since my primary computer is a laptop 
running 
> XP Pro, and since and I regularly back it up to an external hard 
> drive (in addition to CDs and DVDs) I'll throw in my 2 cents worth.
> 
> The backups I currently make are not bootable. My primary concern 
is 
> to save copies of my data, and xxcopy does that very nicely for 
me. 
> However eventually I would also like to make my external drive 
(mine 
> is a USB port drive) bootable and there has been some recent 
> discussion about xxclone possibly doing that. However I believe 
it 
> depends upon the bios of each individual computer, and I have to 
> admit I have not yet checked the bios in this machine to see if it 
is 
> capable of booting to a USB port drive. I do plan to check into 
that 
> in the near future, and if it supports it, I'm going to give 
xxclone 
> a try and see how it works. Perhaps your problem, since it 
mirrors 
> my own situation, will motivate me to move on this a little faster.
> 
> John



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