cloning to external USB hd question

[Guest]

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Hi,

Lately I've been fixing a lot of old P2's running win95 or 98.
These are boxes used by children in their homes. I volunter to fix
them when they stop booting, etc. They are gradually learning not to
put tiddley winks and baseball cards in the floppy drives.

I was wondering;
could I use XXcopy and just copy a drive to an external usb hard drive, so
I could then copy the data back when it gets screwed up? These are usually
1.2 or 1.6 gig
hard drives so I could easily put the entire drive contents on my external
80 gig WD.
The old boxes don't have USB ports, but I have a card that usually works in
them.
I also have a P2 350 that does have USB so I thought I could take the borked
drive,
put it in the 350 as a slave, copy fm the external drive, and then put it
back in the
old computer as a master again, thus speeding the whole thing up, etc.

Thanks for any ideas on this.

Al

 

[Guest]

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I've been laboring away at this without success.
I'm using Xxcopy and have successfully cloned drives one to another, but
have not been able to "clone" to a directory on the external drive.
I think my first post may not have been clear.
I want to clone Lauen's hd to a directory on the external drive named Lauen,
etc.

Al

 

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!Allen Lasting wrote:
> I've been laboring away at this without success.
> I'm using Xxcopy and have successfully cloned drives one to another, but
> have not been able to "clone" to a directory on the external drive.
> I think my first post may not have been clear.
> I want to clone Lauen's hd to a directory on the external drive named Lauen,
> etc.

And what, exactly, 'goes wrong' with it?

>
> Al
>
>

 

[frank]

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"!Allen Lasting" <bogus@nowhere.net> wrote in message
news_idnfYJEfdTF_DcRVn-pQ@comcast.com...
> When I put in a command such as:
>
> xxcopy c: d:/lauren clone
\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\^^^^^\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\


> I get an error message saying something like the switch isn't
> supported. It
> was last week so I don't remember exactly what it say.
>
> From your reply I infer it is possible. If it is, I'll go back to
> work on
> it.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Al
>
>
>>
>> And what, exactly, 'goes wrong' with it?
>>
>
>

 

[Guest]

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Howdy!

"Frank" <bbunny@bqik.net> wrote in message
news:Xvnbd.8891$vZ5.1975@tornado.tampabay.rr.com...
>
> "!Allen Lasting" <bogus@nowhere.net> wrote in message
> news_idnfYJEfdTF_DcRVn-pQ@comcast.com...
> > When I put in a command such as:
> >
> > xxcopy c: d:/lauren clone
> \\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\^^^^^\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\

I suggest re-reading the specs.

CLONE is a CLONE - it's not a "Copy to another directory."

Try "XXCOPY C:\*.* D:\Lauren /R/I/C/H/K/E/Y/S/F" instead.

RwP

 

[Guest]

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Fix your damn System Clock, for your postings!

--
DaveW



"!Allen Lasting" <bogus@nowhere.net> wrote in message
news_idnfYJEfdTF_DcRVn-pQ@comcast.com...
> When I put in a command such as:
>
> xxcopy c: d:/lauren clone
>
> I get an error message saying something like the switch isn't supported.
> It
> was last week so I don't remember exactly what it say.
>
> From your reply I infer it is possible. If it is, I'll go back to work on
> it.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Al
>
>
>>
>> And what, exactly, 'goes wrong' with it?
>>
>
>

 

[Guest]

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!Allen Lasting wrote:
> Hi Frank,
>
> I may be too dumb to have a comuter. I can't figure out what your reply
> means.
>
> Al
>
>
>>>xxcopy c: d:/lauren clone
>>
>>\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\^^^^^\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\
>>
>
>
>

I may be able to help (I know a thing or two about dos). I am not
familiar with the command xxcopy. Do you mean xcopy? What is it you
are trying to do. I never got the initial part of the thread.

 

[Guest]

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zealott wrote:
> !Allen Lasting wrote:
>
>> Hi Frank,
>>
>> I may be too dumb to have a comuter. I can't figure out what your reply
>> means.
>>
>> Al
>>
>>
>>>> xxcopy c: d:/lauren clone
>>>
>>>
>>> \\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\^^^^^\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\
>>>
>>
>>
>>
>
> I may be able to help (I know a thing or two about dos). I am not
> familiar with the command xxcopy. Do you mean xcopy? What is it you
> are trying to do. I never got the initial part of the thread.

This is the first post I've seen in this thread, but I assume the
previous poster did mean to type xxcopy

<http://www.xxcopy.com/index.htm>

Ian