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xxcopy did not rename short 8.3 names to Win longnames
Trying to use xxcopy and xxcopy16 to backup a
fresh Win98se installation. When I tried to restore it back my files did not get renamed to Win longnames. My steps were... From Win98, ran xxcopy c: d: /clone where "d" is on the same drive as "c". From Win98, moved files to another PC over home network. Burned a CD with these files. Reformatted "C". From Win98 startup disk, used xxcopy16 to copy files back to "C". Used the command... a:\xxcopy16 f: c: /clone A majority of the files copied over fine but got "insufficient memory" error. Messages on the net says this is standard. Ran above xxcopy16 command again. This time the remainder of the files copied over. Booted into Win98se. Because the filename were 8.3 length I could not located dos window from program files so from "run" I did the command: a:\xxcopy f: c: /nl /s A dos window popped up and the messages implied filename is the same. After running, rebooted. Win98se still has short name. Questions... 1. Is the above valid. Can you "clone" from C to D on the same drive? 2. Are these copied files to CD okay to use with xxcopy? 3. How does xxcopy with the /nl and /s options know how to rename 8.3 files to long filenames? Thanks for any help... Randy |
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On Tue, 24 Jun 2003 21:00:22 GMT, "RNelson"
wrote: Trying to use xxcopy and xxcopy16 to backup a fresh Win98se installation. When I tried to restore it back my files did not get renamed to Win longnames. My steps were... From Win98, ran xxcopy c: d: /clone where "d" is on the same drive as "c". From Win98, moved files to another PC over home network. Burned a CD with these files. Reformatted "C". From Win98 startup disk, used xxcopy16 to copy files back to "C". Used the command... a:\xxcopy16 f: c: /clone A majority of the files copied over fine but got "insufficient memory" error. Messages on the net says this is standard. Ran above xxcopy16 command again. This time the remainder of the files copied over. Booted into Win98se. Because the filename were 8.3 length I could not located dos window from program files so from "run" I did the command: a:\xxcopy f: c: /nl /s A dos window popped up and the messages implied filename is the same. After running, rebooted. Win98se still has short name. Questions... 1. Is the above valid. Can you "clone" from C to D on the same drive? 2. Are these copied files to CD okay to use with xxcopy? 3. How does xxcopy with the /nl and /s options know how to rename 8.3 files to long filenames? Thanks for any help... Randy put the source and destination drive parameters in quotes. |
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RNelson wrote in message om... Trying to use xxcopy and xxcopy16 to backup a fresh Win98se installation. When I tried to restore it back my files did not get renamed to Win longnames. My steps were... From Win98, ran xxcopy c: d: /clone where "d" is on the same drive as "c". From Win98, moved files to another PC over home network. Burned a CD with these files. Thats likely where you went wrong, burning them on CD. The name stuff is quite different on CD and a hard drive. Try using winzip and put the zip file on CD instead. Create a self extracting exe and hopefully you can run that when restoring it. Reformatted "C". From Win98 startup disk, used xxcopy16 to copy files back to "C". Used the command... a:\xxcopy16 f: c: /clone A majority of the files copied over fine but got "insufficient memory" error. Messages on the net says this is standard. Ran above xxcopy16 command again. This time the remainder of the files copied over. Booted into Win98se. Because the filename were 8.3 length I could not located dos window from program files so from "run" I did the command: a:\xxcopy f: c: /nl /s A dos window popped up and the messages implied filename is the same. After running, rebooted. Win98se still has short name. Questions... 1. Is the above valid. Probably not the use of the CD. Can you "clone" from C to D on the same drive? Yep. You cant necessarily boot the D partition tho, because it wouldnt normally be an active primary dos partition and SE wont boot from that. 2. Are these copied files to CD okay to use with xxcopy? Really depends on how deep the folder trees are and how long the long folder and file names are. 3. How does xxcopy with the /nl and /s options know how to rename 8.3 files to long filenames? Dunno. Thanks for any help... Kan, the author, should show up and comment, he appears to run a scan for xxcopy over usenet. |
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