How did explorer crash? You mean crash (with popping up a window saying ther
ewas an app error?), or after a short silence the whole desktop restarts and
all explorer window disappears? Or just tell you that this and that file
coul dnot be accessed because of this and that? Did you try to copy the 'My
Documents' or the 'Documents and Settings\username\' directory that contains
many other things amongs 'My Documents'?

Tamas


On 20/09/06, John Ferrell <johnferrell@earthlink.net> wrote:
>
> Ghost has arrived.
> The next hurtle is that in the preparation I decided to simply copy off to
> another drive my extensive My Documents folder. I kept an offline copy of
> a
> website that seems to have grown a series of folders which tend to crash
> windows explorer. The folders can be renamed, they currently reside as a
> 12
> deep nest of "bad". Intuition is telling me that it would be a bad idea to
> try to clone this drive with the error in place. Command line or safe mode
> will not allow a delete either. Scan Disk and Chkdsk don't appear to exist
> with XP.
>
> I am considering giving Knoppix a try but I don't want to do that until I
> have a chunk of time to regenerate the system if needed.
>
> Have I missed something?
>
> John Ferrell    W8CCW
> "My Competition is not my enemy"
> http://DixieNC.US
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "John Ferrell" <johnferrell@earthlink.net>
> To: "Microcontroller discussion list - Public." <piclist@mit.edu>
> Sent: Wednesday, September 13, 2006 5:26 PM
> Subject: [ot]:Ghost?
>
>
> >I asked a while back and was not comfortable with the answers, I thought
> I
> >would try again....
> >
> > My Windows XP Pro C: drive is getting a little tight on space. It is a
> 60G
> > drive with 8.3G free at the moment. I would like to Clone it to a larger
> > drive. Regening the system always results in a few losses.
> >
> > Norton Ghost is supposed to do it as I read the advertising.
> >
> > Would anyone care to share any related experiences?
> >
> > John Ferrell    W8CCW
> > "My Competition is not my enemy"
> > http://DixieNC.US
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