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Answering my own question ...
I finally figured out that I needed to use fdisk to make the primary
partition, which I had created using Partition Magic, active. Now it
works just fine!
Bob Adelman
> When I tried this I got the message "operating system not found."
>
> Anyone know what's wrong?
>
> Bob Adelman
>
> > The xcopy c:\*.*/e/h/k/r/c d:\
> > command is what PC Magazine says that you use if you're replacing
> > your hard drive with a larger one. You put the bigger HD in as a
> > new (slave) hard disk, then run that command, then take out the
> > smaller HD and re-jumper the large new HD as master instead of
> > slave, and it's supposed to be plug-and-play. I've never actually
> > tried it that way, but I certainly use the above XCOPY command every
> > weekend on my trading machine.
> >
> > >Also, what do the following commands perform:
> > >/e ???
> > >/h ???
> > >/k ???
> > >/r ???
> > >/c ???
> >
> > If from a DOS window you do a "xcopy/?" you'll find out that
> > /e=copies directories and subdirectories, including *E*mpty ones
> > /h=copies hidden and system files also /k=copies and retains file
> > attributes rather than resetting /r=Overwrites read-only files
> > /c=continue copying even if the system reports errors
> >
> > Mike C.
> >
>
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