My Harddrive is failing

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Rich S

I am having problems with my HD power supply and b/4 it
dies completely I want to copy it to the secondary drive
in my system. Is there a utility out there like xcopy for
windows 2k? I am hoping to copy all so that I do not have
to reinstall.......


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Robocopy is a very robust file transfer tool. You can get it in the Windows
2003 Server Resource Kit from the following link:

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/...69-57ff-4ae7-96ee-b18c4790cffd&displaylang=en

(or click on "Windows Server 2003 Resource Kit Tools" on
www.microsoft.com/windows/reskits/default.asp)

Even though it's in the 2003 Resource Kit, it still runs very well on 2k and
has a few options not available to the version in the 2000 Resource Kit.
Make sure you read and understand the various options before actually
copying files.

Andy Adrian
Consultant
Quilogy, Inc.
 
Hi, Rich.

Xcopy is included in Win2K. Just open a "DOS" window and type xcopy /? to
see all the switches available. Using "xcopy c:\ x:\ /c /h /e /r /k", you
can copy everything (including hidden and system files) except the Registry.
To xcopy the Registry, you'll have to be booted into a different copy of
Windows, as in a dual-boot setup or by mounting the drive into a different
computer.

RC
 
I was posting before about downloading a Knoppix Linux image file from
Knoppix.com and burning it to CD. You end up with a bootable Linux OS
that runs entirely in RAM. It doesn't access the drives unless you
ask it to and doesn't care if there are no drives. You don't need to
install or configure Knoppix, just boot and use it. Unlike booting
from a Windows disk to a prompt, you are booting to wallpapered,
menued, iconed, driver loaded OS that doesn't care what's on the
drives. And, of course, there are NO files open on the drive and I
really doubt that any files Windows wants to call hidden would remain
hidden.
You can copy the files from the NTFS disk to another drive to back
them up. Don't know off hand just what sort of copy "utilities" are
on the drive but if nothing else you can drag and drop a directory at
a time off the root...

Hi, Rich.

Xcopy is included in Win2K. Just open a "DOS" window and type xcopy /? to
see all the switches available. Using "xcopy c:\ x:\ /c /h /e /r /k", you
can copy everything (including hidden and system files) except the Registry.
To xcopy the Registry, you'll have to be booted into a different copy of
Windows, as in a dual-boot setup or by mounting the drive into a different
computer.

RC
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