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by **Roger Squire** » Tue, 11 Sep 2001 08:35:24

Hi, I'm going to replace my 9gig drive with a 20gig drive in my Win98
machine, both formatted with Fat16. I'd like to just copy over the whole C:
drive onto the new disk rather than spend hours reinstalling Win98. Can I
do this with an xcopy32 command, and what's the procedure I should follow?
thx much! A url giving instructions would be great too!

rms

by **use EXCITE.COM instead** » Tue, 11 Sep 2001 08:43:32

If you really want to avoid ALL the trouble, spend $15 and buy
DriveCopy from PowerQuest, the guys who made PartitionMagic.
That program is designed to do exactly what you need. After you're
done, pass it on to your friend who's also doing upgrades.

--KC

by **PHYDEAUX** » Tue, 11 Sep 2001 09:12:23

>Subject: Re: How to copy a hard drive to a newly installed drive ?

>Date: 09/09/2001 7:43 PM Eastern Daylight Time

>> Hi, I'm going to replace my 9gig drive with a 20gig drive in my Win98
>> machine, both formatted with Fat16. I'd like to just copy over the
>whole C:
>> drive onto the new disk rather than spend hours reinstalling Win98.
>Can I
>> do this with an xcopy32 command, and what's the procedure I should
>follow?
>> thx much! A url giving instructions would be great too!

>If you really want to avoid ALL the trouble, spend $15 and buy
>DriveCopy from PowerQuest, the guys who made PartitionMagic.
>That program is designed to do exactly what you need. After you're
>done, pass it on to your friend who's also doing upgrades.

Excellent choice.....go to http://www.racesimcentral.net/

and download it for immediate use. Replaced my 8.4 with a 40GB read the manual
file carefully though.

(Don't gimme NO***in E-mail)

by **Rik Anthra** » Tue, 11 Sep 2001 10:23:51

read the manual

You're scaring me......

by **Biz** » Tue, 11 Sep 2001 11:52:30

Both Maxtor and Western Digital provide setup disks with their drives to do
all the work for you....and if you don't buy one of those models, their
websites have the utility for d/l.

--
Biz

"Don't touch that please, your primitive intellect wouldn't understand
alloys and compositions and,......things with molecular structures,....and
the....." - Ash

> Hi, I'm going to replace my 9gig drive with a 20gig drive in my Win98
> machine, both formatted with Fat16. I'd like to just copy over the whole
C:
> drive onto the new disk rather than spend hours reinstalling Win98. Can I
> do this with an xcopy32 command, and what's the procedure I should follow?
> thx much! A url giving instructions would be great too!

> rms

by **Chairm** » Tue, 11 Sep 2001 17:05:19

> Hi, I'm going to replace my 9gig drive with a 20gig drive in my Win98
> machine, both formatted with Fat16. I'd like to just copy over the whole C:
> drive onto the new disk rather than spend hours reinstalling Win98. Can I
> do this with an xcopy32 command, and what's the procedure I should follow?
> thx much! A url giving instructions would be great too!

> rms

I gotta say...I copied a 4.5Gb SCSI to an 7.9GB IDE using xcopy32 and
it worked flawlessly. but i might have just been lucky.

by **Steve Garrot** » Tue, 11 Sep 2001 23:43:57

xcopy32 c:\*.* d:\*.* /s/e/c/i/h/r/k

SLG

>Hi, I'm going to replace my 9gig drive with a 20gig drive in my Win98
>machine, both formatted with Fat16. I'd like to just copy over the whole C:
>drive onto the new disk rather than spend hours reinstalling Win98. Can I
>do this with an xcopy32 command, and what's the procedure I should follow?
>thx much! A url giving instructions would be great too!

>rms

(All spelling errors are intentional and are there to show new
and improved ways of spelling old words. Grammatical errors are
due to too many English classes/teachers)

by **eff1 fa** » Wed, 12 Sep 2001 05:55:32

get ghost. it's made by norton and is a great way to make an exact
clone of the source disk.

by **Richard Becket** » Wed, 12 Sep 2001 17:05:29

I just did that and I used the Maxtor utility:

http://www.maxtor.com/Softwaredownload/main/MAXBLAST.EXE

Mainly because I had a maxtor HDD, but it will work with any type,
and it works really well!

I installed the new disk as master, and the old disk as slave, then booted
from
the floppy that MAXBLAST.EXE created.

It allowed me to initialise and format the new HDD, then copy everything
from
the old to the new in one step.

Dead easy! Been running from the new HDD for over a week with no problems.

R.

> Hi, I'm going to replace my 9gig drive with a 20gig drive in my Win98
> machine, both formatted with Fat16. I'd like to just copy over the whole C:
> drive onto the new disk rather than spend hours reinstalling Win98. Can I
> do this with an xcopy32 command, and what's the procedure I should follow?
> thx much! A url giving instructions would be great too!

> rms

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