If cloning a drive - you should copy the MBR, partition tables, all partitions and any replacement tracks If cloning a partition you should copy the MFT or FAT tables as well as all the sectors indicated within those tables as containing data If copying files then the application (e.g. xxcopy) will either ask the system to pass it details of where the files are so it can read the drives itself, , or it will more usually, just ask the system to pass it the data that makes up the file from indicated partition, and directory on the drive.
most of those advocating xxcopy to 'clone' partitions, expect that you will either, not be working on your booted OS partition, and if it is the boot partition you want to work on - then you will have used a stand-alone boot Cd such as the XpPe, or Linux distributions. JimB ----- Original Message ----- From: "Wayne Johnson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Thursday, February 09, 2006 3:28 PM Subject: Re: Software -- Ghost 2003 > 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. ;-) > > > ----------+---------- > Wayne D. Johnson > Ashland, OH, USA 44805 > <http://www.wavijo.com> > > -- > ---------------------------------------- > WIN-HOME Archives: http://PEACH.EASE.LSOFT.COM/archives/WIN-HOME.html > Contact the List Owner about anything: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Official Win-Home List Members Profiles Page > http://www.besteffort.com/winhome/Profiles.html > > -- ---------------------------------------- WIN-HOME Archives: http://PEACH.EASE.LSOFT.COM/archives/WIN-HOME.html Contact the List Owner about anything: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Official Win-Home List Members Profiles Page http://www.besteffort.com/winhome/Profiles.html
