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spystyle:

Short version : How can I copy the contents of a vista hard drive to an XP hard drive? I'd like to copy those files to a folder called "C:\backup"

The problem is when copying / moving the Vista hard drive files to the XP hard drive, using windows explorer within windows XP, it doesn't work.

I think Vista puts permissions or encryptions on it's files...

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Long version :

Hello from icy cold Maine,

Oh what a pain, Vista!

An acquaintance of mine had a new Vista PC, he used it for a while then gave it to me to install XP. As usual to make a backup I boot a person's PC with a boot CD that contains "windows explorer" and "norton ghost", then copy their hard drive to my external USB drive, then I install Windows XP SP3 (my custom skinny version made with Nlite), then I copy the files on the external USB drive to a folder called "backup" on their computer.

But I haven't done this with Vista before, I have cloned his Vista hard drive to my external drive with "ghost", then installed XP on his computer. But now I can't move the files from the external drive to a folder on his new installation of XP.

Vista has some kind of permissions or encryption in the files.

How can I move those files?

Thanks,
Craig

XyloSesame:
Try Robocopy, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robocopy. It's proved invaluable to me with moving files from within Vista.

Robocopy GUI can be found on TechNet

spystyle:
Thanks :)

I'll try that.

Boy I hate Vista, and they released it just as they finally got XP working correctly (SP3)

!!!

Cheers,
Craig

Franco B:
Agreed,

Vista, FTL!

Level42:

--- Quote from: spystyle on December 24, 2008, 01:27:29 pm ---Thanks :)

I'll try that.

Boy I hate Vista, and they released it just as they finally got XP working correctly (SP3)

!!!

Cheers,
Craig

--- End quote ---
Yeaaaaaahh, back to a 9 year old OS. Would you like your brand new car to be like one that was built 9 years ago ? Isn't it crazy ?

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