I hear that microsoft has a way to totally copy everything on my 6 gig primary drive over to my larger slave harddrive as a complete system backup. It has to do with a DOS utility called x..(something)../S Can anyone tell me how that is done or a link to Microsoft's website for instructions?

xcopy *.* d: /m will not copy your operating system hidden files. I use Norton Ghost to do an EXACT copy when I upgade to a bigger hard drive.

Sterling_Aug is correct, except you will need to add a couple of switches to do a complete clone. /E copies Directories and Subdirectories, including empty ones. /H copies hidden & system files also. /K copies Attributes without changing them. So the command would be: xcopy C:\*.* D: /E /H /K (ENTER) This assumes that the D drive is empty (freshly formatted). If you already have data on the drive, you should use additional switches to overwrite existing files. For a list of the switches, at a DOS prompt type: xcopy /? (ENTER) Just remember that anything that you add to the C: drive after you do the clone won't be on the D: drive unless you do another backup. This is when you will need to add switches to overwrite existing files. After cloning the HD, it would be a good idea to unplug your C: drive and plug the D: in as primary master. Then run it for a couple of days to make sure that it really works & has all of the data on it. Hope this helps. Dave

I know several people with various leading jobs in IT: they all use norton ghost. I use ghost 5.1, works perfect. Makes image of & puts back an entire disk with system and everything.