First, I would like to wish everyone a safe and happy holidays.. I'm installing new larger hard disk on our server to replace our old small one. I want to take the old disk to use for another computer. I will first transfer all files to the new disk from the old one. I did this once before, but I notices that the files on the new disk did not have to same security settings as the old files did...and it took so much time and effort to set all those security again on the folders on the new disk. Is there program or other ways so that the security rights of the folders (files) will copy to new disk? thanks, susan

Hi, No, it's one of the basic rules of NT security, if you move files to another disk or partitions you lose your security settings.... Sad but true! Fortunately it didn't affect your holiday spirit! Merry xmas!

I thought that if you mirrored disk one to disk 2 the drives you would have exactly the same. Unfortunately you would also have the same size as the old drive. because it would mirror it to the size of the old drive. BUT you could use a program called Server Magic by http://www.powerquest.com/servermagicnt/index.html that might keep your security intact. you can try this by mirroring the drives and breaking the mirror and make the new drive the master. Then boot the system up and see if it worked...

Hi, to copy files with owner and security you could use scopy.exe from the NT reskit. This is a command line tool, but with option /s you can copy subdirs. scopy source dest /o /a /s

Two other ways are to get a copy of Unix utils for windows and use the cp command, i dont remember which switch copies permissions just run cp --h it should tell you. The other way is to use Ghost at least ver 6.03. This will make an clone of your drive and you can resize partitions. Bob

Also, permcopy will copy the share permissions, if you need to do that.

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