Thanks John and sorry that I am so late in thanking you for your response to my question on xxCLONE. I have tried all of your recommendations to no avail. Guess I will write to the authors of the software. Thanks again for your input. Bruce
----- Original Message ----- From: "Neon John" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Discussion of precise time and frequency measurement" <time-nuts@febo.com> Sent: Monday, August 25, 2008 8:32 PM Subject: Re: [time-nuts] While we're discussing backups... > On Mon, 25 Aug 2008 17:51:35 -0400, "Bruce Lanning" > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > >>In regard to the below info, I downloaded xxclone and it does appear to be >>the type of backup program that I have been looking for, BUT I can not get >>my C: drive to come up in the source or the target window. I am running XP >>on a COMPAQ Presario if that helps. Could anyone tell me why I can not >>see >>my C: drive. It has my start up info and WINDOWS on it. > > No idea other than the brand name. Compaqs have a rep for stuff like > that. > Are you running XP? All bets are off if Vista is involved. > > I've installed xxclone on a number of client and friends' computers and > never > had a problem. It just came up and ran. > > Did you try pressing the disk management button to the right of the source > and > target slots? That brings up windows disk drive management package. What > does it show? Is your C drive an NTFS volume that is showing healthy? > > Have you turned off any services, particularly windows shadow volume copy > service? Some "optimization" websites recommend turning that service off > but > doing so disables just about every backup or clone package that runs in > multi-user mode. > > Do you have any virus bloat-ware like Norton running? If so, it might be > interfering with disk detection. I have the freebie Avast package on my > machine and before that AVG (release 8 turned into bloatware so I had to > change) running with no problems but given the amount of problems I've had > in > the past with Norton and MaCaffee, I'd be looking there. > > Have you tried since rebooting the machine? Kind of an obvious question > but I > had to ask. > > As a last resort, you might drop them a support note and ask if they've > had > any reported problems with your model computer. Maybe they'll have a > patch or > a work-around. > > John > -- > John De Armond > See my website for my current email address > http://www.neon-john.com > http://www.johndearmond.com <-- best little blog on the net! > Tellico Plains, Occupied TN > Multitasking: Reading in the bathroom! > > > _______________________________________________ > time-nuts mailing list -- time-nuts@febo.com > To unsubscribe, go to > https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts > and follow the instructions there. > > > -- > No virus found in this incoming message. > Checked by AVG. > Version: 7.5.524 / Virus Database: 270.6.7/1629 - Release Date: 8/23/2008 > 1:16 PM > > _______________________________________________ time-nuts mailing list -- time-nuts@febo.com To unsubscribe, go to https://www.febo.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/time-nuts and follow the instructions there.