Use Win3.1 to Clone a Hard Drive?

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Use Win3.1 to Clone a Hard Drive?

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Name: ken
Date: July 13, 2000 at 11:21:30 Pacific
Subject: Use Win3.1 to Clone a Hard Drive?

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Is it possible to clone a hard drive in Win3.1?
Any suggestions or pointers to tutorials concerning this would be appreciated!

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Response Number 1

Name: Laurence
Date: July 14, 2000 at 01:48:19 Pacific
Subject: Use Win3.1 to Clone a Hard Drive?

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It depends on what you mean by 'clone'. I have two harddisks with 10 drives on each. I use the 2nd disk to back up the first. The partitions on your 2nd disk must be >= the partitions on the first disk.
Remove attributes on ALL drives thusly (broken in MS-DOS 7.X):
ATTRIB, /S DRV:\*.*
You can do this for all drives with one command if you put it into a FOR statement.
FOR %d in (c d e...) do ATTRIB, /S %d:\*.*
Then use this for each drive on 1st disk and it's corresponding drive on 2nd disk:
XCOPY /Y DRV:\*.* drv:\ /S/E/V
You can also save/restore the file attributes on the files in your bootroot directory so you needn't do it by hand, see:
http://members.xoom.com/_XMCM/batfiles/monthly/aug1999.htm

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Response Number 2

Name: ken
Date: July 14, 2000 at 09:26:23 Pacific
Subject: Use Win3.1 to Clone a Hard Drive?

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Laurence
Thanks for the tips! Is XCOPY found on all
DOS sys--from 3.2 to 7.0

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