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Date:	Thu, 5 Apr 2007 15:13:33 -0700
From:	Tom Brown <thombrown@san.rr.com >
Reply-To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
Subject:	SCOUG-Help: DFSEE

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Sandy Shapiro wrote:
> I am currently looking over the various dfsee doc files. I am going to try
> and use dfsee to copy (clone) everything from two 80 GB hard drives to a
> new 250 GB hard drive. It seems to be fairly straight forward, but if
> there any particular documents I should be sure to read or any problems to
> be aware of, please let me know.
>
> Thanks,
> Sandy

You are going to have to clone PARTITIONS from the 80 GB drives to like
sized PARTITIONS on the 250 GB drive. Make VERY SURE that you select the
FROM and TO partitions accurately! Otherwise you will wipe out the data
on your 80 GB drives. I have done it, ONCE!

If your objective is to get the data from the 80 GB drives to a single
partition on the 250 GB drive, I don't recall a way to do it with DFSee.
I would try XCOPY in that case, but I have heard of problems with XCOPY
in cases where large amounts of data were transferred. YMMV.

If you have a licensed copy of DFSee, you might want to send a note to
Jan van Wijk.

I would start with dfseehow.pdf and search for "clone". The .txt files
have somewhat terse instructions.

HTH

--
Tom Brown, Catherder
thombrown at san dot rr dot com
Member SCOUG, V.O.I.C.E., & SDAA

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