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Well, not to spoil your little party, but I have used freeware, beta,
drive cloning software from xxclone.com to copy one drive containing XP SP1a to a second drive on my computer. I booted off the target drive without any major problems, even though I didn't disconnect any drives. I just changed my BIOS to boot of the SCSI instead of the IDE. There were only a few glitches, but these existed even when the cloning was done as prescribed by Speed, by disconnecting all other drives. One little glitch was the bootup presented multiple boot options for both the source and target drives, but these can easily be removed using bootcfg or even better, msconfig. The other more major one was that some user settings and shortcuts got clobbered, and I had to reinstall or repair a small number of my programs. kludge, fang, and arse are funny words Timothy Daniels wrote: As Rod Speed has pointed out, the clone drive resulting from a cloning of a WinXP system HD should be the only drive with an a WinXP OS on an active partition when booting it up for the 1st time. (Thereafter it can "see" and be "seen" by another OS in the PC.) The hassle is that you have to open the case, disconnect the cables to the other drives, including the one that has just been cloned, boot up the new clone, and then, usually, open the case again and reconnect the other drives. It would be a lot easier if one could just shut down and then disconnect the other drives by use of a physical switch to break the connection with their power cables. That would avoid all the hassle of opening the case and unplugging the other drives. So, does anyone have any information that would indicate if switching the power cables would work? *TimDaniels* |
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