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I am adding a 80gb HD to my 20gb. What is the easiest way to transfer WinME to the new drive and be able to dual boot to DOS on the old drive?
ricben
Checkout the following:
"There is a utility called WinMeDOS.com that restores this feature for WinMe to boot to DOS prior to Windows. It’s available at: <www.geocities.com/mfd4life_2000>."
http://www.alamopc.org/pcalamode/columns/beverley/bb0101.shtml
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If your new HD is Western Digital, you can use the Data Lifegaurd tools which has a somewhat decent partition-cloning utility (drive-to-drive copy). You will have to boot from the CD. Or (because WinMe isn't ACTIVATION-protected) you can just re-install WinME on the new drive fresh, which I would actually recommend over cloning the 20gig partition.
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If you clone your C: drive to the D: drive, the system will not run. It was installed on a C: drive and 'must' run on a C: drive.
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Thanks for the replies. What if a cloned my existing drive as master to the new drive as slave and then swapped their positions? wwould't ME just boot from the new drive?
ricben
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Yes, if you make the new drive the master (C:), and the old drive the Slave (D:)that 'should' work. But don't expect to boot the old drive anymore.
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Glad to help, but if it was me I would leave the 20gb as master. It's usually better to have a small drive for the OS.
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Ive done what you want to do several times manually and it can be a hassle getting everything up and running. I would suggest buying some software like Paragon Disk Manager and let it copy over to your new hard drive. Its very fast....and will save you a lot of headaches. Just remember when you clone over to the other hard drive, shut down and switch the drives before you boot up again. Windows XP creates a database for keeping track of partitions unlike Windows 9x which doesn’t save the information. It will mess up your drive letters on the new cloned drive and you will have to repair it.
There is a easy way to fix that problem, boot with a windows 98 disk and do the fdisk /mbr command. Then boot up XP will rebuild the partition database new.
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OK, it looks like there's a lotta ways to skin a cat! I used WD Data Lifgaurd awhile back to clone and it stole the letter C and gave it to the new drive. Then a week later I did another computer and used Acronis.com 9.0 free trial which was much nicer for cloning many copies because it lets you keep C where ever you put the master jumper on.
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