At 08:40 PM 2/26/99 -0400, you wrote:
>On 26 Feb 99, at 13:47, Earl Truss wrote:
>> 4) Will the files have the same names?
>> The only time I ever tried using the XCOPY method, I wound up with all the
>> correct LONG file names but some directories had different SHORT file
>> names.
>[snip]
>> A few people told me it was
>> because I did not do the XCOPY correctly but since I have never
>> tried it again, I have not verified it.
>
>See John Navas's information on the SFN renaming bug:
>http://www.aimnet.com/~jnavas/tech/clone_copy.htm
>
From the above-referenced Web site:

XCOPY Myths
Popular misconceptions:
The right set of commandline switches will make XCOPY/XCOPY32 work
properly.  In fact there are no switches that affect this problem.

This page confirms that what I saw does happen if you use XCOPY to clone a
disk and there is no way to make it work correctly every time.  Everyone
who recommends using XCOPY to clone a disk should read this page and let us
know if there is a way to do it correctly.  If not, everyone recommending
using XCOPY would do well to include this page in a warning about using
XCOPY that short file names may not be preserved.

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