Re: can I ghost a failing boot drive to a good one?

And you will ghost those "bad" sectors, along with the
corrupted/incomplete/missing information they contain, right over to the new
drive. Remember, Ghost does sector by sector copying, not file copying.

The time to make a Ghost image is when the drive and system are at their
peak. Ghost is not used to try to reclaim a failed or semi failed drive. It
seldom works.

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Regards,

Richard Urban
Microsoft MVP Windows Shell/User

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"If you knew as much as you think you know,
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"Andrew E." <eckrichco@xxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:ACE65DFE-485F-445D-9F14-26924CDBBF26@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> It should work,usually drives fail because of bad sectors.To copy C: to
> new,
> set new drive on same IDE cable,set as slave,format the drive,after,go to
> run,
> type:XCOPY C:\*.* D:\ /c/h/e/k/r Agree to all in the DOS window.When the
> window quits,youre thru.D: being the new hd,but if asigned diffrent,use
> that
> letter instead.Also,if you have problems starting new drive (doughtfull)
> but if so,
> boot to xp cd,at info screen select,install xp,repair this copy.
>
> "peter" wrote:
>
>> If I have windowxp installed on drive C:, and the drive starts to become
>> unreliable, can I copy the entire drive to a new drive, remove the old
>> one
>> and boot from the new one?
>>
>> This works with older OS like win98, but I'm not sure about XP. Do I have
>> to
>> buy special disk copying/mirroring software for this purpose? Would it
>> work
>> if file encryption is turned on?
>>
>>
>>


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