[TechAssist] Re: Ghost 2001 users?

  • From: John Zaborniak <jzaborniak@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: techassist@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Wed, 02 Jan 2002 22:15:09 -0500

Yes it does.... I'm running Windows Me and did my own drive last week...

Regards,

John

Jim Myers wrote:

> John, does this really work? I always used xcopy to clone a hard drive until
> Windows 95, then it would not work for me, long file names and all that
> fancy stuff. I haven't tried it since I found it would no longer work. Has
> xcopy been upgraded?
> Jim Myers
> jr.myers@xxxxxxxxxxx
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "John Zaborniak" <jzaborniak@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: <techassist@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Wednesday, January 02, 2002 1:46 PM
> Subject: [TechAssist] Re: Ghost 2001 users?
>
> Hi Clint,
>
> If your plan is to duplicate your existing HD, I have been using this
> method for a number of years.
>
>                     HARD-DRIVE Duplicate Copy Command
>
> The command below will copy all the files off the old hard drive and put
> them on the new one.
> xcopy /h /i /c /k /e /r /y c:\*.* d:\
>
> ( 1 ) Put your second hard drive in as a slave after it's been fdisked
> and formatted.
>
> ( 2 ) From the Win95 or Win98 Command interface, click Start button and
> then on
>         Run. Then type the following: xcopy /h /i /c /k /e /r /y c:\*.*
> d:\
>
> This command will only work when the full operating system is up. You
> cannot boot bare and run this command successfully. The above command
> will make a perfect copy of your entire hard drive to a second drive, no
> special weird utilities needed. I've been using this command for years
> to dupe drives, works like a charm.
>
>                                 Regards,
>
>                                   John
>
> "OrpheusComputing.com Repair" wrote:
>
> > Has anyone here every used Norton Ghost 2001 to back up and
> > HD and restore it?
> > -Clint
> >
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