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microsoft.public.windowsxp.help_and_support:31868

If I use the regular XP utilities to copy a 
(failing) external HD to another HD, 

1.  Are file dates preserved?  Or does the new HD 
get today's date, that being the date it's 
copied.

2.  For copying to NTFS (from FAT): are all the 
directories writable even on another machine?

The latter is brought up by Cygwin's cpio -pdm 
preserving dates and permissions except the 
required directories have permission 700, which 
means on another machine you can't even read the 
directories, since the userid doesn't match except 
by chance.  The question is raised in case the XP 
utilities don't have this problem, which would be 
good.
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