Re: Using xcopy for "cloning" your C; drive???
- From: Ghostrider <-00-@xxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 25 Jul 2007 12:12:54 -0700
surface9 wrote:
I read on a previous post (can't find it now) that windows xp has a
command to make a bootable copy of a bootable drive if the bootable
drive is connected as a slave and the bootable copy was formatted by
xp. The command quoted was:
xcopy d:\*.* e:\*.* /s/e/y/o
I tried this but the "bootable" copy would NOT BOOT. I got the
following error message: NTLDR is missing.
The bootable drive I used (mounted as a slave) is still bootable (when
I mount is as the master, 1st bootable device). When I mounted it as
a slave (and marked NOT BOOTABLE in the BIOS), and then ran the xopy /
s/e/y/o command to my e: drive I noticed that the command ended
normally but about half the data from the windows folder did not copy
over.
Is there yet more switches that I am missing?
Is there no way to do what I was trying to do?
Windows 98se has a nifty command that lets you make a bootable copy of
you C: drive that you can then mount as your 1st drive and it will
boot and look exactly like the orignial C: drive from which you made
the copy: it is:
xcopy32 c:\*.* d:\*.* /e/h/r/k/c/d
I have successfully done this many many times so I know for sure that
it works like a charm - and it is easy to do since you can leave your
orignal c: drive intact while you make the backup.
I was hoping I could do something like that with XP, even if I have to
reboot from a different h/d (with xp on it) so that the original c:
drive is seen as a slave data drive that can be copied en toto
(nothing protected).
Where am I going wrong? All I want to do is AVOID having to re-
install windows XP along with all my favorite applications and all my
favorite settings and all my favorite shortcuts, hotkeys, etc. This
all takes way too long to have to redo whenever something goes awry
with my C: drive - it is so easy, when that happens, to just use the
backup which I will keep offline until the original C: drive goes
south.
I am just now advancing from windows 98se (which I have put off for a
long time for this VERY REASON), and so I need help from any guru's
out there that know an easy and surefire way to SNAP your C: drive
just as soon as you got it set up the way you want it so you can take
your clone offline and it WILL WORK when you later need it.
Thanks, littleberry
AFAIK, the XCOPY command will not be able to clone the system drive
since certain Windows files are "in use" and cannot be copied. And
there is considerable difference between Windows 9X and Windows NT
or 2000 or XP. Windows 9X is simply a "shell" over MS-DOS whereas
NT/2000/XP are operating systems in themselves.
To clone Drive C, use Symantec Ghost or Acronis TrueImage, resulting
in an image file of the partition (or hard drive). This is a sector-
by-sector duplicating operation and will do a same sector-by-sector
copy to the new partition or drive. The transfer, consequently, will
include the boot tracks.
.
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