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Copying Win 98 SE from one hard drive to
Name: m bennett Date: March 13, 2001 at 10:25:56 Pacific
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I am trying to copy win 98 from one hard drive to another and when i copy what i believe is everything includinf hidden files i try to boot up the copied hdd and i get and error non system disk and all the drives are empty. Can someone tell me what all files i need to copy are or how to fix this. I have tried about 5 times and got the same error
Name: Tanked Date: March 13, 2001 at 10:32:50 Pacific
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Have you used FDISK and FORMAT /S on the new drive? It is not sufficient to simply copy the files, as a boot sector and master boot record need to be created.
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Response Number 2
Name: NicB Date: March 13, 2001 at 10:36:11 Pacific
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Have you checked that you have copied Autoexec.bat and Config.sys to the root directory c:\ of the new drive ?
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Response Number 3
Name: ioiou Date: March 13, 2001 at 11:46:48 Pacific
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Try this in a Windows environment. 1st do a full format of the drive. (ignore the 1st warning prompt, & just make darn sure it's the right drive) Now assuming your copying to D:\ type this in the run (command) box xcopy c:\*.* d:\*.* /s/c/h/e/r/k Well...success?
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Response Number 4
Name: Mike Hunt Date: March 13, 2001 at 13:22:15 Pacific
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I don't know just who "Valiant IT - Technical Services Unit" are but they don't seem to know much sometimes.
No flavour of Windows 9x requires either autoexec.bat or config.sys to operate and the presence or otherwise of them has got absolutely nothing to do with this problem.
Ioiou's post should do it otherwise use Ghost to clone one drive to the other.
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Response Number 5
Name: zzyzx Date: March 13, 2001 at 15:13:07 Pacific
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if you just do copying, then your duplicate can never work. get some software and clone it instaed of copying.
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Response Number 6
Name: Mike Hunt Date: March 14, 2001 at 07:42:01 Pacific
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zzyzx you're wrong, it can be done and I and others I know have done it several times.
Perhaps you'd like to explain to us all just why it "can never work".
We wait in anticipation...
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Response Number 7
Name: samie Date: March 14, 2001 at 08:27:55 Pacific
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ok..guys..this should work just fine..format the hard disk clean and then copy the system files on it...then you can copy windows to c:\windows..hope I am as smart as i think I am ...have fun.
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