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Re: Cannot get new hard drive to load win98
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Jun Qian <[log in to unmask]>
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PCBUILD - Personal Computer Hardware discussion List <[log in to unmask]>
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Thu, 3 Jun 1999 23:02:26 +1000
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If you do it in safe way, it's pretty safe. I always do this: Make both Harddisk
master, xcopy richkey from C: to D:, take out old harddisk, make the new harddisk
c: (change the connector to IDE1). This hasn't failed once since I tersffer
Harddisk for upgrade manytimes.

J Qian

Jeffrey Delzer wrote:

> Just a reminder that xcopy is not a safe way to clone a Win9x drive.
> Details were posted to this list recently on why and how it's unsafe.
>
> Jeff Delzer

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