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"Jose E. Dominguez" <[log in to unmask]>
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Fri, 6 Feb 1998 23:01:48 -0500
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Paul Jones wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I have given up on the intermittent problem I have with my Western Digital
> drive, and got a Maxtor 5.1 GB.  I got DriveCopy free with the purchase and
> tried it.  It wouldn't work because of 'overlapping partitions'.  (Maybe
> that is the problem with the WD?)

You can download Ghost for free for a evaluation and Ghost will do the job
nicely for you. It's not limited by anything like DriveCopy.

> So I tried XCOPY32 with the /e switch.
> It seemed to do it's job, but when I try to boot it, I see the Win95 logo,
> and then C:\>.  Kind of like booting from a floppy.
>
> So, what did I miss?  I suppose I can reinstall Windows, but what a pain.
> Besides I want to learn something more than just how to install software.
> Any ideas?

I don't know what you missed but XCOPY32 is invoked with plain old XCOPY. In
other words, the command is XCOPY and that will run XCOPY32. I'm not too
familiar with the switches though.

HTH

Jose


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