{"id":191,"date":"2004-10-19T07:44:00","date_gmt":"2004-10-19T14:44:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kb.terabyteunlimited.com\/kb-articles\/how-to-use-xcopy-and-sys-to-duplicate-a-win9x-partition\/"},"modified":"2021-09-07T15:11:17","modified_gmt":"2021-09-07T22:11:17","slug":"how-to-use-xcopy-and-sys-to-duplicate-a-win9x-partition","status":"publish","type":"lsvr_kba","link":"https:\/\/www.terabyteunlimited.com\/kb\/kb-articles\/how-to-use-xcopy-and-sys-to-duplicate-a-win9x-partition\/","title":{"rendered":"How to use XCOPY and SYS to Duplicate a Win9X Partition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The best way to copy a partition is to use BootIt BM's <em>Partition Work<\/em> Copy feature or the Copy feature of Image for Windows, Image for DOS, or Image for Linux.<\/p>\r\n  <p><strong><font color=\"#ff0000\">The following instructions are provided as-is.&nbsp; Use at your own risk.<\/font><\/strong><\/p>\r\n  <p>These instructions assume both the source and destination partitions are already in the MBR partition table. It also assumes that the source will be C: and the destination D:<br \/><br \/>Use the XCOPY command to duplicate the partition:&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\r\n  <blockquote style=\"MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px\" dir=\"ltr\">\r\n    <p style=\"MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px\" dir=\"ltr\"><font color=\"#ff0000\">XCOPY C:&#92;*.* D:&#92; \/e \/c \/h \/r \/k<\/font>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\r\n  <\/blockquote>\r\n  <p style=\"MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px\" dir=\"ltr\">Once copying is complete, use the SYS command from C: by typing:<\/p>\r\n  <blockquote style=\"MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px\" dir=\"ltr\">\r\n    <p style=\"MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px\" dir=\"ltr\">&nbsp;<font color=\"#ff0000\">SYS D:<\/font><\/p>\r\n  <\/blockquote>\r\n  <p style=\"MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px\" dir=\"ltr\">&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The best way to copy a partition is to use BootIt BM&#8217;s Partition Work Copy feature or the Copy feature of Image for Windows, Image for DOS, or Image for Linux. The following instructions are provided as-is.&nbsp; Use at your own risk. These instructions assume both the source and destination partitions are already in the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"lsvr_kba_cat":[1781],"lsvr_kba_tag":[2127,2138],"class_list":["post-191","lsvr_kba","type-lsvr_kba","status-publish","hentry","lsvr_kba_cat-9x-me","lsvr_kba_tag-windows","lsvr_kba_tag-windows-9x-me"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.terabyteunlimited.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/lsvr_kba\/191","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.terabyteunlimited.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/lsvr_kba"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.terabyteunlimited.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/lsvr_kba"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.terabyteunlimited.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.terabyteunlimited.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=191"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.terabyteunlimited.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/lsvr_kba\/191\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6147,"href":"https:\/\/www.terabyteunlimited.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/lsvr_kba\/191\/revisions\/6147"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.terabyteunlimited.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=191"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"lsvr_kba_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.terabyteunlimited.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/lsvr_kba_cat?post=191"},{"taxonomy":"lsvr_kba_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.terabyteunlimited.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/lsvr_kba_tag?post=191"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}