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No, you're not wrong! But Andrew E certainly is.
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Richard Urban
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"DL" <dl@spoofmail> wrote in message
news:%23GF%23ZQjlFHA.3568@tk2msftngp13.phx.gbl...
> From my reading, xxcopy will only copy a win9* drive to give a bootable
> result
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http://www.xxcopy.com/index.htm
> Of course I could be wrong
>
> "Ken Blake" <kblake@this.is.an.invalid.domain> wrote in message
> news:%23eC$wBjlFHA.1996@TK2MSFTNGP10.phx.gbl...
>> In news:1BE2FE1D-84C5-45EF-BD9B-1BFCCE332998@microsoft.com,
>> Andrew E. <eckrichco@msn.com> typed:
>>
>> > Those other folks are cluelesss...XCOPY will copy over to
>> > another hd
>> > ALL Files,
>> > not just personal files,locked files system files all get
>> > copied.....
>>
>>
>> First of all, the question was about XXCOPY, not XCOPY.
>>
>> Second, as usual, you don't know what you're talking about, and
>> you're wrong once again.
>>
>>
>> --
>> Ken Blake - Microsoft MVP Windows: Shell/User
>> Please reply to the newsgroup
>>
>>
>> > Simply format
>> > the new drive set as slave on the same IDE cable as C: Once
>> > formatted,go to run,type:XCOPY C:*.* D:\ /c/h/e/k/r Agree to
>> > all in
>> > the DOS window,when its thru the transfer is complete.Only
>> > works with
>> > IDE deives not SATA or RAID.
>> >
>> > "DVL" wrote:
>> >
>> >> I need to move XP to a new hard drive. I'm looking for a free
>> >> and
>> >> easy way to copy the data over. Will xxcopy work alright with
>> >> moving
>> >> the files over?
>>
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