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Disk copying?
If I use the regular XP utilities to copy a
(failing) external HD to another HD, 1. Are file dates preserved? Or does the new HD get today's date, that being the date it's copied. 2. For copying to NTFS (from FAT): are all the directories writable even on another machine? The latter is brought up by Cygwin's cpio -pdm preserving dates and permissions except the required directories have permission 700, which means on another machine you can't even read the directories, since the userid doesn't match except by chance. The question is raised in case the XP utilities don't have this problem, which would be good. -- On the internet, nobody knows you're a jerk. |
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