restoring win98

[spask]

Is it possible to use backup and restore to move windows 98 onto my new hard drive.I've created a new partition big enough for the backup and restored it onto the new drive. The new drive won't boot when I exchange the drives. FDISK active partition is set on the drive. The backup was a full backup with registry backup set.

[BBA]

All you need to do is fdisk it from dos without the other drive attrached so you can mark it as active, then set it as a slave to the working drive. Next format the drive with system files, copy the program files directory to it, copy the windows directory to it and copy the program directorys of installed apps to it also. Now you can set it as the master drive and boot to windows on it.

This works everytime I upgrade someones hard drive to a larger one.

BBA

[fishboy]

You could also use commercial software such as Ghost or Drive copy to do the same thing. BBA's trick sounds like it should work also although Ive never done it that way before

[philipg]

If you have ez-bios installed.

This will help. Ez-bios has a option under advanced to mirror files from one drive to another. Takes about an hour or two depending on the size and amount of data transfered.

BBA you forgot one small detail. I ran into this when I tried the same thing on someone else's drive. All hidden files may not copy, if you boot the older drive into windows and dos is no gurantee either.

[This message has been edited by philipg (edited 07-08-99).]

[BBA]

philipg,

Your right, I did not mention it, but if you have the view options in windows explorer set to show all files and not to hide file extensions for known types, it will copy everything but the swap file, and you don't want to copy that anyways because it's better to let windows rebuild it on startup.

BBA