Hey, Someone gave me an old Compaq with a 1 GB hd and they wanted to upgrade it to a 7 GB hd. So I went and hooked up the new Hard Drive and used LFNBK (large file name backup) which comes with Win95, to convert all my Large Filenames to short names. I then used icopy to copy all the files from one hard drive to another. I installed a Fresh Copy of Win98 on top and then went back in to Windows so I could try to convert the long file names back. However, it says I cant convert back because it will only use Fat drives. However, the 1 GB drive is Fat32. What can I do, because I don't want to lose all the data... I used this site as reference... <http://www.cae.wisc.edu/fsg/win95/win95-transfer.html> Thanx

"Sit back with a smile, you have just saved yourself countless hours of wasted time trying to get Windows 95 installed on a another system with all the correct applications installed and working." .. or not, apparently. What are you trying to do, just copy some files from one hard drive to the other? The site you mention gives instructions for transferring the entire drive, OS included. Easiest by far would be to hook up the Win95 drive as a slave to the Win98 HDD - no muss, no fuss, LFNs are read by Win98, no futzing with different software.

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I have always used a partion tool like partition magic and copied the partition to the new drive. Then I resize the partition to use the extra space. This has always worked for me for fat and fat32 partitions. Your method sounds frought with danger. If the original disk is fat, then many disk tools like partition magic will allow you to convert it to fat32. You will need to do this to get a partition larger than 2gb.