Mike,
There are other/easier ways to transfer files/setups to a new hard drive.
One that works great is below.
Here's what you need to do for a successful transfer of ALL files to your
new drive:
This is tricky. Follow the instructions carefully!
Make sure you have a Windows95 startup disk handy!
1) Install your new, blank hard drive as a slave.
2) Format the new hard drive (using FDISK and FORMAT).
- multiple partitions may be required based on drive size and
whether or not you will
be using FAT32 from OSR2 (up to 8 Terabytes?) or FAT16 (up to 2.1G
partitions)
3) Reboot into Windows95
4) From a DOS WINDOW INSIDE WINDOWS95 (THIS IS IMPORTANT!), type the
following command:
XCOPY C:\*.* D:\*.* /s/c/h/e/r/k
Notes: If you get a "switch not recognized" error, you're doing it wrong. To
find out what these switches do, type 'xcopy /? |more' from a DOS WINDOW
INSIDE
WINDOWS95. This command assumes that your new hard drive (first partition)
was assigned the letter D:\. Choose "yes" if asked to overwrite any files.
5) When copying is finished, turn off the computer, open it up, and
reconfigure so that the new hard drive is the Primary Master drive.
6) Boot to the Win95 startup disk. Using FDISK set the Primary Partition on
the new drive as Active.
7) Eject the Startup disk and reboot. If Windows95 does not boot from the
hard drive, put the startup disk back in and boot to it. At the A:\ prompt,
type:
SYS C:
This will recopy the system files to the new hard drive.
8) Reboot to the hard drive. It should boot to Windows95.
There are lots of reasons why the above procedure might not work on a
particular system. You'll be doing a lot of plugging and unplugging of IDE
and power cables, moving jumpers around, so it's easy to get one of these
things wrong, ie, incorrectly jumpered drives, cables that aren't correctly
seated on the pins, incorrect HD parameters in CMOS, etc. Also, if you have
an older BIOS, it might not correctly recognize your new, larger hard drive.
Also, the instructions above are a bit tricky to follow, and unless you are
very careful, you will do something wrong the first time you try it.
Tim klymkow
-----Original Message-----
From: Mike Cormier <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Tuesday, March 03, 1998 01:30 PM
Subject: [PCSOFT] Microsoft's method of moving Windows 95 to a new hard disk
>THE WINDOWS 95 SWAP MEET
>Want to move Windows 95 to a new hard disk (to make it the
>boot
>drive), keeping your current system configuration and data
>files
>intact? It can be done, but we should warn you--it isn't the
>most
>straightforward operation.
>
>We can't possibly reproduce the entire procedure here (it
>would span
>about a month of tips!), but we can point you in the right
>direction.
>You'll find complete instructions in Microsoft's Knowledge
>Base, at
>
>http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/q166/1/72.asp
>
>Be sure to follow the steps EXACTLY, heeding all of
>Microsoft's
>warnings.
>
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