Re: Help getting copied Window 98 booting

me@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
I have just "cloned" my 6 GB laptop drive onto a 40 GB laptop drive. I put
this in quotes as I wanted to resize partitions in the process, so I
created the partitions with DFSee and then used FC/2 and xcopy to copy the
files to the new partitions. After the copy was done I swapped the drives
and used my DFSee CD to fix the LVM information.

This worked find for my eCS 1.03 partition, but Windows 98 does not boot. I assume this means that one or more critical boot files are not in the
appropriate position for booting. I guess this would be easy to correct
if I had a Windows 98 boot disk, but all I have is a ThinkPad system
restore disk that would replace my current system. I thought perhaps I
could get around this by using the "Run DOS from" approach to boot a
window from the C: drive, but when I tried it all I got was a " I9990305"
error, which I assume indicates the same as a no-boot from Boot Manager.

So does anyone have a boot diskette image for Windows 98 I can use to "SYS
C:" the partition with? If so, can I use it with "Run DOS from" or will I
have to create an actual diskette for this? The last line of C:\MSDOS.SYS
is "WinVer=4.10.2222" and I do see the various hidden system files in the
root directory. If I am not correct about using "SYS C:" to fix this,
where can I find a utility to fix this?

-- Dave
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dhdurgee<at>verizon<dot>net
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Surely you created a "Windows Emergency Boot Disk" before you started this? Or you must have a Windows Emergency Boot Disk just around your house. (Actually of course it is really MS-DOS 7.1, but it does report itself as Windows, MS does call creating it as creating a Windows Boot Disk.

Make sure you C: drive is visible and Active. Then boot-up your computer with the EBD and SYS the C: partition.

Windows 2K can create a required Windows 9x/ME diskette too. But it is MS-DOS 8.0 from Windows ME. I don't now if that would work for you. If you don't have have, use a public computer with Windows 2K on it to create the MS-DOS Bootable Diskette (or whatever it is called).

You have to create the boot sector from another source, such as a boot floppy diskette, or you have to have saved a copy of a boot sector and try to copy it to partition and see if a SCANDISK, CHKDSK, and/or Disk Editor program can "fix" the information in it to fit your partition.

DFSEE can save you a copy of the boot sector from your source computer. But, I've never used it to try to create a boot sector on a hard disk partition of a different size. (I'm assuming they both are FAT or at least FAT32.)
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