"SlickRCBD" wrote in message
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philo wrote:
"Steven Saunderson" wrote in message
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On Sun, 06 Apr 2008 22:28:22 -0500, SlickRCBD
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Is it possible to temporarily disconnect the ZIP drive I haven't used in
over a year and install the new drive as a slave, make a 20gb primary
partition, and make the remaining space an extended partition on the new
drive. Then use the old MS-DOS command DISKCOPY to copy the C drive to
the primary partition on the new drive?

It should be possible. I've copied everything except the swapfile from
an active system drive to a backup. There might be a problem copying
files such as SYSTEM.DAT and USER.DAT depending on the copy program you
use. XCOPY might do the job. I used a homemade copy program with a
very relaxed input file open which is the only way I could access some
files. There is also a program called XXCOPY (freeware) which might
help here.
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Steven



XXCOPY should do the trick


xxcopy /clone would be the switch to use

Also, Acronis True Image is an excellent disk cloning utility

though it's not free ware, they do have a free trial available



BTW: Though it is generally OK to use...(though it may not always work
perfectly)

xcopy that's already included with windows will generally do the job

If must be used from a command promopt window (rather than pure dos)

xcopy will also invoke xcopy32 where needed


A typical usage would be xcopy /s/c/h/r/e/k


I remember doing this with MS-DOS, but I wasn't sure if I could do it with
Windows 9X. I know you can't do it with XP because of the stupid
"activation code" that checks your hardware configuration and disables
windows if you change things enough. That's part of the reason why I asked
about making an identical partition and using diskcopy. It's just been so
long since I've delt with an issue like this in Win9x that I can't
remember.

If I can use XCOPY, is it even necessary to make a 20gb partition, or
could I make a different scheme?



As far as setting up your partitions...that's up to you.

If you do use xcopy, just remember that it must be used from a command box
from within Windows
not from pure dos as all the switches will not work

But xxcopy /clone is generally the preferred method.


As for XP, xcopy will not work due to it not being able to copy "system
volume information" etc
so cloning software such as Acronis is needed.
It has nothing to do with licensing