Granted, it's "pretty safe" in that a person isn't likely to have a
catastrophic failure from doing this, but it's extremely risky if you
look at things in the long run. It's definitely not recommended if you
value your troubleshooting time and sanity. In short, xcopy doesn't
preserve the MS-DOS short file names properly, and there's nothing you
can do about it. Fortunately, there are several other methods of cloning
a drive that don't have this weakness.

Jeff Delzer


Jun Qian wrote:
>
> If you do it in safe way, it's pretty safe. I always do this: Make both Harddisk
> master, xcopy richkey from C: to D:, take out old harddisk, make the new harddisk
> c: (change the connector to IDE1). This hasn't failed once since I tersffer
> Harddisk for upgrade manytimes.
>
> J Qian
>
> Jeffrey Delzer wrote:
>
> > Just a reminder that xcopy is not a safe way to clone a Win9x drive.
> > Details were posted to this list recently on why and how it's unsafe.
> >
> > Jeff Delzer
>
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