Re: Question for Shenan Stanley MVP or MVP(s)

I agree with Shenan. Andrew E. is rarely right and his advice sometimes will cause more problems or even cause total data loss. He never responds when corrected and continues to post the same bad advice over and over. In this case his advice is just bad, not dangerous. His advice was almost correct for older versions of Windows but won't work with XP. Take Shenan's advice.

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"Dallas Overturf" <dallas.overturf@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:1xAqh.2977$tZ.2528@xxxxxxxxxxx
Shenan: You appear to disagree with something Andrew said. I was a bit surprised by the reference to using
XCOPY. Is there a good way to do what I want to do that you know of or can point me to a reference on it???
I'll be driving 45min to my friend's house to try to help him. I'm going to try and do it on my own system first
to verify it works. If it was DOS I know it would not work; but for XP I don't know what's changed in the boot process.
Would my reply asking about formatting allow the Xcopy to work? Thread is below...

Thanks, Dallas...

THREAD----------->>>
Thanks Andrew! I'll try that xcopy.

Regarding Format command: woud this be the correct syntax: format C:
/FS:NTFS /s /v to create an NTFS bootable hard disk?

Thanks, Dallas...

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"Andrew E." <eckrichco@xxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Actually xp already has the tech to due what youre trying to already
installed.
Simply place the new hd on the same IDE cable as slave with xp (C:) being
master.Once in xp,format the new hd,once thru,go to run,type:
XCOPY C:\*.* D:\ /c/h/e/k/r Agree to all in the DOS window,when its thru,the
entire xp OS is now also on the new hd & ready to boot into,just reset to
master
on the hd jumper pins,& set in BIOS as 1st boot device,format current when
back in xp.Also,D: being the new hd,if asigned diffrent letter then use
that letter.

"Dallas Overturf" wrote:

Here's the scenario: A Friend of mine a couple years back bought a Sony
Vaio PCVRZ22G Desktop PC ;
it has plenty of memory (512Mb) and and an 80GB disk (which for him is
plenty).
They never mentioned to him (a technologically challenged person) that they
split the disk into
a 20GB boot and OS partition drive C: AND a 60GB partition drive D: where
he should install all else onto D:.
Needless to say he is running out of disk space due to this nonsensical
setup. and installing and saving things in the default manner.
Note: Sony suggeste changing My Documents to point into the D: drive which
I did but it was too little to late.
he keeps running very low on disk space (Megabytes vs. Gigabytes) and he is
sick of it.
Sony's reply on it was that it was done due to XP becoming unuseable if it
runs out of disk space; duh!

Question(s): He wants me to make a bootable backup of the hard drive onto
(a largerWestern Digital 120GB WD1200JB ) drive and then turn it into a
single partition; once working. Will Partition Magic be able to do this
automagically? AND what software should I use for Safely copying the
original XP Home OS onto the new drive? (freeware would be preferred for
this if available).
Does Partion Magic fix the registry entries for stuff on the current D:
drive to point to C: if you convert to one partition?

Any Caveats or advice appreciated! I've heard
of but never used Partition Magic before.

Thank you very much group!
Best regards, Dallas...
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"Shenan Stanley" <newshelper@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:ebhWVI8NHHA.5064@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Andrew E. wrote:
Actually xp already has the tech to due what youre trying to
already installed.
Simply place the new hd on the same IDE cable as slave with xp (C:)
being master.Once in xp,format the new hd,once thru,go to run,type:
XCOPY C:\*.* D:\ /c/h/e/k/r Agree to all in the DOS window,when
its thru,the entire xp OS is now also on the new hd & ready to boot
into,just reset to master
on the hd jumper pins,& set in BIOS as 1st boot device,format
current when back in xp.Also,D: being the new hd,if asigned
diffrent letter then use
that letter.

WHAT?!
Andrew... You are a crack-monkey offspring.

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