Re: How workable is Vista?




rickman wrote:

I think he is saying that his hard drives are partitioned into two
drives, each bootable. When he wants to clone one partition, he boots
form the other. To clone the entire hard drive takes two boots and
two XXCOPY operations.

Am I mistaken?

Nope. You are correct.

BTW, another way would be to have a third disk that boots an OS
and then clones the other two. I use the two-partition method
so that XXCopy can do the cloning over ethernet between redundant
computers.

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