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Date:	Thu, 15 Dec 2005 00:07:45 PST8
From:	Wayne <waynec@linkline.com >
Reply-To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
Subject:	SCOUG-Help: More flash drive humor...

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Mark Abramowitz wrote:

>Ok, I approached this from another angle. Rather than "burn" this from
>the .iso, I remembered that xcopy could set up a hard drive to boot from.
>So, I thought that I'd try using xcopy to copy the demo to the flash
>drive.
>
>Using xcopy S:\ F:\ /h/o/t/s/e/r/v, where S is my cd drive, and F is my
>flash, I tried this. However, after boot.cat, which is in S:\bootimgs,
>came up, I received an error message:
>
>SYS1187: XCOPY cannot access the target file.
>
>I'm speculating that maybe there's something special about that file. A
>look at its attributes doesn't show that it's a system or hidden file.
>It's read only, but so are all the files on the cd.
>
>Time to stop and give up?
>
>
>
>
Did it copy other files and folders? Normally files are "source" and
"target", where "target" is the file being created, not the "source"
file being copied from.

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