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XCOPYing a WinXP Drive

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kingbob

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Okay, I have succesfulyl xcopyed a drive with an OS on it in the past with no probs whatsoever (98, ME). When I tried to Xcopy WinXP while running Windows it gave me a few errors about files being used by the OS at the time and it couldn't copy them therefore making the drive I copied unbootable. Is there anyway to do this with a bootdisk? I know, Drive Image would work but I'm too lazy to get it. So any help is apreciated. Thank you!
 
You could try downloading the software for your hard drive. I know Maxtor and a couple others use to have a copy partition to partition routine in the advanced section of the program.

Not sure about using xcopy on XP though. You could always try (assuming your not in NTFS).
 
All three of my HD's are NTFS...is there any sort of bootdisk that can recognize NTFS? Or will that never happen?
 
I've seen a utility that lets dos see ntfs files (was considered a security issue), anyway the file is called something like ntfsdos.exe and needs to be executed once at a true dos prompt (bootdisk). I still don't know if that will let you copy all the files or if the copy will work. I have never heard of anyone xcopying or even xxcopying (non-MS utility) a NTFS OS.

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found a link to it...........ntfsdos.exe
 
I just got my Epox 4G4A+ and it had both Drive Image and Norton Ghost 7.0 included (now have several ghosts). I know this doesn't help you, but I thought it was funny (strange) that it included both.
 
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