Copying Win2000 hdd

[tbalazs]

Will xcopy /s/c/h/e/r/k/y *.* in a "dos2 emulation" box work ok for copying an entire win 2000 pro hdd to a larger drive, to be used in the same machine? I've done this successfully with win95 in the past but haven't tried it with 2000 pro.
Tony.

[Randy_tx]

Dunno......but I DO know that you can do it successfully with "Ghost" and it's free....ususally comes with the Motherboard disc...

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[Randy_tx]

I dont think you can use Ghost if you choose the High Performance File System tho.

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[kenja]

About Ghost (and Drive Image) and Windows 2000 file systems:

Uh, HPFS was the file system OS/2 used, and is totally unsupported by W2k; some of the earliest versions of NT did support it.

I think you meant NTFS, Randy_tx, which is the powerful file system supported only by Windows NT and 2000. Ghost and Drive Image run under DOS; they require a separate FAT partition to back-up onto, if imaging in partition mode. (Actually, Ghost 2001 can also write directly to many of the newer CD-RW drives.)

Ghost can make a disk-to-disk transfer of NTFS. Things get more complicated if using the Windows 2000 option of using dynamic drives (as opposed to basic). Norton Ghost 2001 can image a dynamic volume (what would be called "partition" if it were a basic disk), but it can only be restored to a dynamic volume.

About using xcopy for disk imaging: Charles does not approve, and wrote about it here (http://www.pcguide.com/art/xcopy.htm).