To belabor this a little more...
I think the real questions are:
  1) Will he "get" ALL his files?
     I Hope the answer is yes.
     That is the whole idea... (grin)
  2) Will the files be exact copies?
     They will be binary equivalents.
     The structure and placement on the "second"
     drive will change.  The partition info
     of the drives will not match, but that
     should not matter,
     (with enough space to copy to.)
  3) Will the placement and structure changes
     cause any problems?
     Depending on an almost infinite number of
     things, a reasonable answer would be yes.
     One example would be: the "system" files
     (run sys.com) may or may not be where they
     need to be for windows to find them,
     but on newer windows systems it doesn't
     care where they are.
     ANY program that has files "hard coded"
     to a physical location on the old drive
     will not find those files (even if they
     exist), when moved to a different location
     on a different drive -- keeping the drive
     letter unchanged, of course.
     This is a very old form of copy protection.
   Hope this helps,   Rick

>From: Dave Perry <[log in to unmask]>
>>So, if I try to copy the contents of a hard drive in
>>a dos window I willget a perfect copy of the hard drive??
>
>At the risk of repeating what David, I, and many others have already
>said.....
>NO  you will NOT get a "perfect copy".
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