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.