At 09:56 AM 2/9/2006, Irv Pereira typed:
The operation starts fine but crashes at the point where it's trying
to do the MFT
File. Both drives are NTFS. I have found that there is a sharing violation
involving this file when doing an XCOPY.
MFT [Master File Table] for NTFS drives which is comparable to FAT
[File Allocation Table] is for Win9x primarily. You can only have
one per drive so I wouldn't expect that you could or should copy it
to another drive. Windows automatically creates a backup of it on the
same drive. For more info about the MFT file I suggest you visit the
MSKB <http://search.support.microsoft.com/kb/>
OBTW I don't believe that anyone said that XXcopy or Xcopy clones
drives but it does clone files. One advantage of imaging is that the
image stores drive information such as whether it's NTFS or FAT32,
the formatting there of as well. It use to be in the old days that
one couldn't restore individual files from an image but apps such as
Ghost Walker which IMNSHO makes imaging much more attractive to the
Home/SOHO user than it use to be but lets face it one can duplicate
drive setup parameters but duplicating files that you've created from
out of thin air is much more difficult. ;-)
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Wayne D. Johnson
Ashland, OH, USA 44805
<http://www.wavijo.com>
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