Re: [Thinkpad] Drive Cloning, anyone tried XXclone?

It is certainly worth a try.

Now is the time to experiment, before you do much customizing, since it
*is* possible for a clone operation to screw up the original disk (as
happened to me with clonemaxx).

- David R.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Andrew in Ann Arbor" <andrewaa@comcast.net>
To: <thinkpad@stderr.org>
Sent: Friday, March 26, 2004 4:33 AM
Subject: [Thinkpad] Drive Cloning, anyone tried XXclone?

> Hello all
> I've now got my desktop that dare not speak it's name (it was the
number
> 2 choice for half the price) and I have to say that Windows XP hasn't
> been nearly as obnoxious as I had feared. Why I hardly feel like one
of
> the dammed at all...
> Of course even though this was supposed to be the machine that I
wasn't
> going to tinker with I've immediately added a CDR burner, a floppy and
a
> second hard drive.
> Of course I also installed Win XP lite (highly recommended
> <www.PClite.com>) and removed Outlook and Windows scripting host.
>
> I like the way the added components were immediately picked up by XP,
I
> was even able to burn CDs straight out of the OS.
>
> I should be done but of course I want more, I want the OS on the
smaller
> (30 GB) drive that I added reserving the larger OEM (80 Gb) drive for
data.
> I thought about cloning the drive using XXcopy but found out that
XXcopy
> will not produce a bootable drive in NT/2K/XP.
> Then I discovered that the same people have produced a product that
> claims to clone NT/2K/XP drives. You can get a beta copy from
> <www.xxclone.com> and I believe I'm going to give it a try.
> Then I really have to get some work done......
>
> Is there anything I should be looking out for (aside from wasting time
> on dubious productivity enhancements)?
>
> --
> Andrew in Ann Arbor
> technology is the answer, what was the question?
>
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