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Hi All,
I'm running Windows 95, and I want to copy the entire contents of one drive onto a new, larger capacity drive. I installed and formatted the new drive, and ran the following command:
xcopy c: d: /e /v
Everything appeared to copy over fine, so I removed the original hard drive, and installed the new one as the primary. The machine booted file, until it tried to load W95. I saw the message "VFAT16 not installed, system halted", with a bright blue screen. In reading about xcopy, I know hidden files don't get copied over. My guess is that a whole herd of system files that are hidden and specific to W95 did not get copied over. Any suggestions as to how to duplicate this drive without having to reinstall W95?
Thanks ahead of time :>)
Majed Oweis
It's looking for some lost start up files is my guess. If your Cd-rom works in Dos [if not re-install it] just re-install Windows again, no need to format at this stage but 'if you get the urge, give your drive a purge' [I just thought of that one]. By the way all .dll, .drv, .vxd, .386, .sys and many others are HIDDEN files.
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Howdy, Well ya can't use the Xcopy from DOS but you can use Xcopy32 within windows 95 which is the only way this will work. Reformat the new hard drive and reinstall the old one. Also, Xcopy does copy over hidden and system files. Ok, From use this command and it must be run from the RUN menu. So once again, from the RUN menu type this.
C:\windows\command\xcopy32 c:\*.* d: /h /c /e /k
That is all ya need and hit enter and away it will go. The /h tells xcopy32 to copy the hidden and system files /c tells it to continue if any errors occur. Once it is all done, and it takes a very short time. Install the new drive as master and all should be just fine. Once again, This must be done from the RUN menu off of the start bar.
Laters,
Kevin The Tech Dude.
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The command line quoted in the latest reply works fine - BUT, after you have run xcopy32, you will need to manually replace the file MSDOS.SYS from the old drive to the new drive. BTW when you fdisked the new drive, it should have been done so that the partition is active. Works fine for me.
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FOLLOW all the instructions given above or buy a program called Drive Copy and it will copy the entire old drive everything intact to the new one.
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Theres o program called the Norton Ghost, you can download a trial version from Symantic's web site. I would try it first.
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If you wnat to copy one hard drive to another keeping the existing contents (errors and all) try a program called Ghost can buy it at any computer store. Usually it is run from a boot disk. It copies everything and all you have to do is identify which drive is which.
Good luck!!
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I would recommend DriveCopy. The latest version is 3.0
I've personally used this program and it works excellent, and didn't cost much. I've made back my money for what i paied for it by copying drives for other people.
An excellent product. Real easy to use.
You can read more about it here:
http://www.powerquest.com/drivecopy/
Tim
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