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Number   :  10963
Date     :  2005-04-18
Author   :  imaginare@...
Subject  :  XX Clone - problem with drive volume lettering
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Hi all. Used XCLONE successfully tonight, cloning the WinXP Service Pack 2 
Home Edition bootable (C) drive to a backup hard drive. One minor problem did 
occur, that might be confusing to some less experienced users.

Setup: Intel D845PEBT2 motherboard. WinXP Home Edition SP2 installed clean 
on a Western Digital 80 GB drive, with four partitions. NTFS file system. 
Cloned to a WD 40 GB drive with four partitions, C volume on 40 GB drive formatted 
before cloning. Disk Management correctly shows the C partition on the 40 GB 
drive as "active".

When the backup drive was run on its own for the first time (it booted), a 
DOS box came up briefly, scripte ending in "C:G:Steps". Then the XX Clone GUI 
comes up and says that the drive volume letters were not correctly assigned, 
XXCLONE will correct, reboot in 60 seconds. XXCLONE is correct; checking, I find 
that WinXP has the partitions lettered as C, H, I, J, with the CD-RW drive 
labeled as D. Should be C-F with the CD drive as G. Unfortunately, XXCLONE.bat is 
not able to get Windows to reletter, and the same XXClone message about 
relettering pops up. I let it try several times, restarting, to no avail.

The workaround:
1) Manually reassign the letters for the partitions in the extended volume 
using Disk Management.
2) Deactivate the XXCLONE.bat program in the start-up programs list in 
MSCONFIG.
3) Restart.

Everything is running normally. This is a minor issue. But hopefully it is 
fixable. Wonder if the Service Pack 2 changes caused a problem with re-lettering.

Anybody know how to edit the Registry so I can delete the XXCLONE.bat entry 
from the start-up program list? Don't want to accidentally check it in the 
future and go through this again. Thanks, Steve


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