Re: Changing boot hard drive
- From: Franc Zabkar <fzabkar@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 30 May 2007 08:07:39 +1000
On Tue, 29 May 2007 13:20:52 -0500, george41407@xxxxxxxxxxx put finger
to keyboard and composed:
My computer is running Win98SE. My boot hard drive is a 6 gig drive.
I also have a 20 gig slave drive, which used to be a 10 gig. Changing
that slave was simply to plug in a 3rd drive and copy all the files to
it, then moving that drive to the second drive cable.
I have never changed that boot drive because I am not sure how. It
contains my boot stuff (Win98 and Dos). How can I copy all the boot
records to another (larger) drive? I have another 20 gigger that I'd
like to use to replace my 6 gig. I'm not worried about the other
directories on C: Those would just be a copy to the new drive. It's
just the boot records and the OS that puzzles me.
George
Install the new 20GB HD as a slave. Use Fdisk to partition it and then
Format it.
If the drive has been used before, eg with Linux or Win XP, then
refresh the Master Boot Record with ...
fdisk /cmbr 2
To make the drive bootable, type ...
sys d: (or whatever drive letter is applicable)
.... or format it with the /s switch, ie ...
format d: /u /s
Make sure you have marked the partition as active (see the Fdisk
options).
Now use Xxcopy to transfer all files from your boot drive to your new
drive.
Subject: Cloning the Win9x system disk using XXCOPY.
http://www.xxcopy.com/xxcopy10.htm
- Franc Zabkar
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