I didn't give up on XXCLONE in favor of SyncBack (which I didn't know
about at the time and which can't actually clone the boot drive) but in
favor of the Western Digital clone utility.
The WD utility comes with a new WD drive to allow you to clone your old
drive in favor of the new (and presumably larger) WD drive. Unlike the
equivalent Seagate utility, the WD utility did not complain about trying
to apply it to non-WD drives. It also actually worked which the Seagate
did not. The Seagate crapped out with an internal error before it got
to moving any actual data. My suspicion is that the Seagate had not
been tested on Win 2000. The WD utility works so well that I didn't see
any need to fuss with XXCLONE.
Chuck Norcutt
Scott Gomez wrote:
> Well, on the plus side... I lost exactly ZERO data trying XXCLONE. :-)
> Wish I'd found syncback at the time, it might well have been worth the
> additional attempt.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Chuck Norcutt [mailto:chucknorcutt@xxxxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: Wednesday, August 17, 2005 7:53 PM
> To: olympus@xxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [OM] Re: SyncBack, was Re: **SPAM** Re: Back up your data.
>
> I downloaded XXCLONE about a month ago and subscribed to the mail list
> which covers XXCOPY and XXCLONE. The mail has been an endless
> progression of discussing an endless array of command line switches
> and... bugs. I decided not to give it a try with my data. The
> discussion of SyncBack also rang a bell and I did a search through the
> trash and discovered someone on the XXCLONE list signing off to go to
> SyncBack.
>
> Chuck Norcutt
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