I just ran 'xcopy /e /c /h /o c: h: and it copies everything I had from
drive c to h.
My question now is, did it copy anything that was needed to boot that drive
to the mbr or whereever, so that if I tried to boot from drive H (this is a
separate physical drive) that it would in fact boot?
I have the feeling even though xcopy is a great thing it misses those tiny
things that will permit a new drive to boot up after a current system was
transferred to it.
Any comments guys on what I did? Perhaps there is a better way but I
thought that where I have this second drive already mounted in the computer
and it would take the place of the old drive, why not xcopy everything over
from one to the other??
Did I do wrong..??
Re: Using xcopy for "cloning" your C; drive??? ...XCOPY just can't do this. ... I tried this but the "bootable" copy would NOT BOOT. ... The bootable drive I used (mounted as a slave) is still bootable (when ... I recommend you give it a try with a Bart PE boot disk.... (microsoft.public.windowsxp.general)
Re: Using xcopy for "cloning" your C; drive??? ...XCOPY just can't do this. ... I tried this but the "bootable" copy would NOT BOOT. ... The bootable drive I used (mounted as a slave) is still bootable (when ... I recommend you give it a try with a Bart PE boot disk.... (microsoft.public.windowsxp.general)
Re: Fixing pagefile.sys from recovery console??? ... connected as a USB during the copy command, and b) I use xcopy instead ... I am not trying to boot to a USB - I do ... I think your backup method is ... (microsoft.public.win2000.general)
PS Re: Backing up files daily--Acronis--xcopy ...Windows, but Windows XP Pro already has a backup program, that will back ... drive to the mbr or whereever, so that if I tried to boot from drive H ...Xcopy isn't capable of doing this. ... (microsoft.public.windowsxp.basics)
Re: Bad sectors on boot drive ... I seem to recall the DOS XCOPY had a restriction where it would not copy ...system boot files.... a FAT formatted boot partition to another FAT formatted boot partition. ... (comp.os.os2.misc)
