Anatomy of a hang

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Originally Posted by Undertoad

I want to copy bad drive C to good drive D. ...
In this case C and D are pretty much identical drives. In the past, I've done this with Partition Magic. But now, PM refuses to do it because it finds bad sectors on C.

Which is why a previous post - unanswered - asked what you were using to copy. XCOPY, that comes even with NT 4.0, copies while ignoring your same (and previously encountered) errors. A list of switches must be entered in that command line:

XCOPY C:\*.* D: /K /E /V /C /H /R

Hey UT - if you are not going to take my advice, then tell us so I am not wasting good bandwidth. I asked you what program was failing to copy previously because you suffered this same avoidable problem before AND because I had that copy file solution. A solution as powerful as the hairdryer solution to avoid shotgunning. If you don't want the help, then tell me. Don't keep banging your head against the same and avoidable problems. It’s costing much money and unnecessary lost time.