The possibility of loosing data using defrag due to a power failure
without a UPS is greater than having xcopy cause a problem. And yet I
have never heard anyone on the list mention that when they suggest
using it and/or another responding that it was unsafe. Again, nothing
is 100% safe and I believe saying that xcopy(32) method is unsafe is
like saying the sky is falling. Which by the way it is and if any of
those pieces of metal that have been sent up in space and have fallen
to the earth had hit a populated area, those people are dead. And
there's more to come...The sky is falling <G>.

So when responding, I way the possibility of risk and mention the risks
if I feel it is really applicable. In this case I do not any more than
I mention power failures with defrag and I would consider the latter a
higher risk.


Daniel Wysocki
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From:   Earl Truss[SMTP:[log in to unmask]]

Exaggeration or not, the possibility of problems being caused by using
XCOPY DOES exist and must be mentioned when telling someone to use this
method.

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