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Number   :  9098
Date     :  2004-11-01
Author   :  Dan Anderson
Subject  :  Re: Why change jumpers to test newly cloned drive?
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From: "burris millstone" 
To: 
Sent: Sunday, October 31, 2004 7:52 PM
Subject: [xxcopy] Re: Why change jumpers to test newly cloned drive?
> I keep a mirror of my multiple BOOT.INI on all three drives.
> I also do have Kan's boot floppy disk that his program creates.
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Burris,

In the configuration that you describe, I agree that the boot.ini mirror
that is created by xxclone should work okay (probably even if you used the
/BC0 default option) even though there is no explicit testing of the mirror
boot.ini file when the reboot into the xxclone copy partition is always via
the source hard drive. Your reference to having the floppy to boot from
also adds to the earlier process that was described.

With other configurations there may be more uncertainty whether the boot.ini
file would function okay. For example, I generally use logical partitions
and /BC0 when creating a cloned copy of my XP O/S. More computers are also
being sold with no floppy drives.

The process that others described of physically booting from the backup hard
drive (either by using a bios switch or a jumper/cable switch) simply
provides a more direct and rigorous test that all is okay with the
bootability of the backup hard drive. I guess it would also test that the
MBR on the backup hard drive has not been corrupted in some way. Its a good
thing for someone to do if they're extra cautious.

I saw Garry has responded as well, primarily with regards to the MBR etc, so
my comments above will be supplemental to his. By the way Garry, do you
have any thoughts on the situation where an xxclone error message occurs
saying that there is no NTLDR or NTDETECT.COM detected, but things still
seem to run okay ? This occurred when I was doing an xxclone of a test XP
partition.

Cheers,
Dan



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