Hard Drive

[Tech HQ]

>-----Original Message-----
>I just installed a second Hard Drive and when I tried to
>copy 'DRIVE TO DRIVE' data, It copied right down to the
>last minute and stopped copying with a message
WinXP.bin...
>I intend to make this new Drive my 'BOOT' Drive and
remove
>the old drive.
>.
>dude look all u gotta do is do this in MS-DOS, ie. use a
boot up cd and copy from drive to drive the reason it is
giving u that error is cause XP is using that file so it
cannot copy plus it will copy faster in MS-DOS don't use
the XP CD use a later copy of a windows OS like 98 95 or
ME even 2000 will work i think or if u have a floppy boot
up disc use that ok good luck peace bro

[Earl F. Parrish]

"Tech HQ" > wrote in message
...
>
> >-----Original Message-----
> >I just installed a second Hard Drive and when I tried to
> >copy 'DRIVE TO DRIVE' data, It copied right down to the
> >last minute and stopped copying with a message
> WinXP.bin...
> >I intend to make this new Drive my 'BOOT' Drive and
> remove
> >the old drive.
> >.
> >dude look all u gotta do is do this in MS-DOS, ie. use a
> boot up cd and copy from drive to drive the reason it is
> giving u that error is cause XP is using that file so it
> cannot copy plus it will copy faster in MS-DOS don't use
> the XP CD use a later copy of a windows OS like 98 95 or
> ME even 2000 will work i think or if u have a floppy boot
> up disc use that ok good luck peace bro

You cannot copy an NTFS hard drive using MS-DOS. The hard drive
will be invisible to MS-DOS or Windows versions older than Windows
NT 4.0 with Service Pack 3. You will get "Invalid drive
specification" errors. The C: drive would be the next recognized
drive which could be a RAM drive or the CD-ROM drive depending upon
how your config.sys and autoexec.bat files are constructed.

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Earl F. Parrish