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From: "Gary Kaucher" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Wednesday, August 30, 2000 12:44 PM
Subject: Re: [PCBUILD] HDD Copy


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> After I do    XCOPY /R/I/C/H/K/E/Y C:\*.* E:\
> should I do?  XCOPY /R/I/C/H/K/E/Y D:\*.* F:\
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If you want to copy everything for D: to F:, why not?

> At what point do I make the partition active? Is this done using FDISK?

After xcopy, just switch the new HDD to IDE1 as master, that will do, you
can active it in FDISK too, but I have done without touch FDISK, no problem
at all.

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> When do I set the drive parameters in the BIOS?
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why you need to set parameter if you are already using the new drive? set
BIOS to "AUTO", let BIOS does the work for you.

Jun Qian

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