Moose wrote:
> Chuck Norcutt wrote:
>>I like to maintain the
>>target drive as bootable as it was when first created. Anybody know if
>>this is possible? Tom?
>>
>>
>
> I've just been wrestling with this one. The quick answer is that it
> depends on the operating system. Prior to XP, the answer is yes.
> Unfortunately, XP keeps a secret database somewhere that records the
> disk serial number and as what drive letter(s) it has been mounted.
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I guess I'm a little ahead of you here since I'm still running Win 2000.
I guess Win XP would be distraught with me since I don't even have a
drive C:. My boot drive is D: and the drive I'm trying to mirror to is F:
D: is a Seagate 160GB drive and F: is a Western Digital 160 GB drive.
When I first got these drives I tried to use the included Seagate
software to create a bootable copy of the original 80GB Maxtor drive
onto the Seagate so I could upgrade the boot drive. No go. The Seagate
software was doing scary things and I abandoned that path since it
appeared to be somewhere in la la land. Got out the equivalent software
that came with the Western Digital drive and used that to successfully
copy the Maxtor to the Seagate and then the Seagate to the Western
Digital. Highly recommended. All drives ended up as bootable when
installed as the primary drive on the IDE controller.
After that the F: (WD) drive was moved to an external USB drive case and
has been maintained via "xcopy" until today when SyncBack ran the most
recent backup and sync'ed the F: drive with the D: drive by erasing the
accumulated trash from F: I can't tell if it's really bootable without
moving it back onto the IDE controller but I do know that there are now
27 system files that are out of sync. so I know that I eventually need
to be able to get those over there as well. As far as I know, that
can't happen while the system is running so any solution must be able to
boot the system by itself and read/write NTFS files. Alternatively,
maybe the system will allow something that claims to be a priveleged
system device driver to read those files.
Chuck Norcutt
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