On Sat, 2002-03-23 at 15:40, alandd@mindspring.com wrote: > Thanks, Richard. I let it go for 5 hours and stopped it. After stopping it, the original drive was messed up! > > Why? Possibilities: > -I was making a mirror image of a brand new Windows 2000 install with the NTFS file system. > -I did not mount the file systems (I did not think I needed to). > -They are DMA-100 IDE drives on a 1.6GHZ computer. Maybe LNX-BBC cannot handle this hardware. > > Anyway, I am attempted to re-build from square one my original master drive. Not a successful experiment and I don't have time to try again. Maybe another day. > > Alan > > PS I am helping setup some Windows 2000 workstations for a friend of mine. It pays so I can use Windows when there is money involved! > --- If you are doing this for money - you should either know for certain or buy something that you can trust. I would never hesitate to purchase Norton Ghost - it is awesome. If you are doing Windows - you need to also use Sysprep. Craig