After booting to my Slave Hard Drive (a clone of the Master),
I decided to do some cleanup there. I tried Defrag, but it
wouldn't open and gave me an error window, saying MMC
(Microsoft Management Console, as I recall it) was not
available or I didn't have access to it. I own this whole
system and don't share it with anybody, so one would think
that I might not be denied access to MMC. Not that I
asked for access or knew it existed.....

Yes, I can defrag it as the F-Drive while running C:, but
is this MMC thing something that I ought to fix? Like, it's
a clone to use as a replacement when the Master dies, and
then I'd sure want full capability.

RE: MMC?? by eckrichco

eckrichco
Sun Jun 22 21:10:00 PDT 2008

Sounds like youre clone software did'nt quite copy all the files.XP does'nt
copy very well due to its security software,& most clone software is ok with
any older windows OS,but with xp it might not work 100%.Try booting to
xp cd with the problem hd running solo,do a repair installation,or a sure
software for cloning hd to hd is XCOPY,this is already installed to xp by
microsoft.

"William B. Lurie" wrote:

> After booting to my Slave Hard Drive (a clone of the Master),
> I decided to do some cleanup there. I tried Defrag, but it
> wouldn't open and gave me an error window, saying MMC
> (Microsoft Management Console, as I recall it) was not
> available or I didn't have access to it. I own this whole
> system and don't share it with anybody, so one would think
> that I might not be denied access to MMC. Not that I
> asked for access or knew it existed.....
>
> Yes, I can defrag it as the F-Drive while running C:, but
> is this MMC thing something that I ought to fix? Like, it's
> a clone to use as a replacement when the Master dies, and
> then I'd sure want full capability.
>

Re: MMC?? by William

William
Mon Jun 23 06:55:51 PDT 2008

Thanks for the input, Andrew, but I think that only the
first statement you made is applicable. I've done this CLONING
with GHOST 10 (and its progenitor, Drive Image 7), dozens and
dozens of times, and this is the first malfunction.

As for XP CD....none came with this HP OEM machine, so that's out.
And correct me if I'm wrong, but it's been my impression that
XCOPY is great for copying files, but won't copy the registry
or master boot record.

I'll repeat the process to see if it comes clean as it did
every time before.

Andrew E. wrote:
> Sounds like youre clone software did'nt quite copy all the files.XP does'nt
> copy very well due to its security software,& most clone software is ok with
> any older windows OS,but with xp it might not work 100%.Try booting to
> xp cd with the problem hd running solo,do a repair installation,or a sure
> software for cloning hd to hd is XCOPY,this is already installed to xp by
> microsoft.
>
> "William B. Lurie" wrote:
>
>> After booting to my Slave Hard Drive (a clone of the Master),
>> I decided to do some cleanup there. I tried Defrag, but it
>> wouldn't open and gave me an error window, saying MMC
>> (Microsoft Management Console, as I recall it) was not
>> available or I didn't have access to it. I own this whole
>> system and don't share it with anybody, so one would think
>> that I might not be denied access to MMC. Not that I
>> asked for access or knew it existed.....
>>
>> Yes, I can defrag it as the F-Drive while running C:, but
>> is this MMC thing something that I ought to fix? Like, it's
>> a clone to use as a replacement when the Master dies, and
>> then I'd sure want full capability.
>>

Re: MMC?? by William

William
Mon Jun 23 16:18:33 PDT 2008

William B. Lurie wrote:
> Thanks for the input, Andrew, but I think that only the
> first statement you made is applicable. I've done this CLONING
> with GHOST 10 (and its progenitor, Drive Image 7), dozens and
> dozens of times, and this is the first malfunction.
>
> As for XP CD....none came with this HP OEM machine, so that's out.
> And correct me if I'm wrong, but it's been my impression that
> XCOPY is great for copying files, but won't copy the registry
> or master boot record.
>
> I'll repeat the process to see if it comes clean as it did
> every time before.
>
> Andrew E. wrote:
>> Sounds like youre clone software did'nt quite copy all the files.XP
>> does'nt
>> copy very well due to its security software,& most clone software is
>> ok with
>> any older windows OS,but with xp it might not work 100%.Try booting to
>> xp cd with the problem hd running solo,do a repair installation,or a
>> sure
>> software for cloning hd to hd is XCOPY,this is already installed to
>> xp by
>> microsoft.
>>
>> "William B. Lurie" wrote:
>>
>>> After booting to my Slave Hard Drive (a clone of the Master),
>>> I decided to do some cleanup there. I tried Defrag, but it
>>> wouldn't open and gave me an error window, saying MMC
>>> (Microsoft Management Console, as I recall it) was not
>>> available or I didn't have access to it. I own this whole
>>> system and don't share it with anybody, so one would think
>>> that I might not be denied access to MMC. Not that I
>>> asked for access or knew it existed.....
>>>
>>> Yes, I can defrag it as the F-Drive while running C:, but
>>> is this MMC thing something that I ought to fix? Like, it's
>>> a clone to use as a replacement when the Master dies, and
>>> then I'd sure want full capability.
>>>
Later report: I did nothing other than boot up again to
that drive, and it ran fine with no complaints. Well,
experience says.........it'll be back.