I've hit problems trying to transfer a Win98 installation from a partition on an oldish 3GB drive to a new Maxtor 10GB drive. Here are the details: Left original drive in place (IDE1 master), set new drive as master and temporarily hooked it up to IDE2 (in place of CDROM) Booted from floppy and ran Powerquest Drive Image (v2 with patches). Used PQDI's Disk-to-Disk facility to copy the C partition to from the original drive to the new drive, expanding the partition to fill all free space (going from FAT32 to FAT32X) Disconnected old drive, attached new drive to IDE1 Everything seemed to go across fine (all PQDI's error-checking was turned on) but Win98 barfs in the closing stages of the boot sequence (typically protection error, but also hangs sometimes). The thing is, I can boot into safe mode no problem. Other details: - Original partition was sound - no boot problems, and was given thorough scandisk prior to beginning the upgrade. - No other hardware changes, BIOS is most recent version for Chaintech 6BTM motherboard - Thorough scandisk on new HD reports no problems - Neither drive has any weird EZBios type-stuff installed About all I can think to do now is just wipe the the new HD, and re-install from scratch. Does anybody have any ideas about this? Surely the OS transfer is possible - have I missed something?

I think Norton Ghost would be a better choice for doing disk image.

Sounds like you have a conflict possible IDE controller or maybe a real mode driver in the autoexec.bat or config.sys if it boots into safe mode then that tells me some type of software remember safe mode loads minimal amount of drivers!

I haven't done it myself, but it sounds a bit doggy they way you transfer things over as things might be out of alignment while transfer one to the other, especially if fragmented blocks of codes are not being faithfully reproduced on the other disk. The only time I see it works perfectly is when the whole partition, including it's size, are being transfered over, byte by byte, which produce an IDENTICAL image of the master, something like 'drive copy'

I have to programs