[geeks] Help: Copying an entire drive under Windows?

Gaz God gaz.god at gmail.com
Mon Aug 11 01:31:38 CDT 2008


Is the dos command xcopy still available with vista?


Gary

On Mon, Aug 11, 2008 at 7:26 AM, Bill Bradford <mrbill at mrbill.net> wrote:

> I need to copy the ENTIRE contents of a system's hard drive to another
> (external) drive under Windows Vista 32-bit Business edition.
>
> xxclone doesn't run under Vista.
>
> Acronis Migrate Easy seems to try to do the right thing, but bombs out (and
> turns the system off!) halfway through.
>
> Other "drive backup" software I can find only backs up the drive to a
> backup image on the destination.  I don't want that; I want a file
> structure I can browse through and drag/drop stuff back to the main drive
> if necessary.
>
> Any suggestions?  a Windows version of rsync would be great, but I don't
> know if one exists.
>
> Bill
>
> --
> Bill Bradford
> Houston, Texas
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