OT: How to copy a hard drive to a newly installed drive ?

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 [email hidden]

"Roger Squires" <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:01Tm7.3682$[email hidden]... > 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 thewhole 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 shouldfollow? > 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. --KC

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>Subject: Re: How to copy a hard drive to a newly installed drive ? >From: "Kasey Chang \(use EXCITE.COM instead!\)" [email hidden] >Date: 09/09/2001 7:43 PM Eastern Daylight Time >Message-id: <E8Tm7.688$[email hidden]> > > >"Roger Squires" <[email hidden]> wrote in message >news:01Tm7.3682$[email hidden]... >> 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.powerquest.com/products/desktop.html and download it for immediate use. Replaced my 8.4 with a 40GB read the manual file carefully though. (Don't gimme NOCRAP in E-mail)

PHYDEAUX99 <[email hidden]> wrote in message read the manual > file carefully though. > You're scaring me......

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 Roger Squires <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:01Tm7.3682$[email hidden]... > 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 > [email hidden] > > >

"Roger Squires" <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:<01Tm7.3682$[email hidden]>...

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> 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 > [email hidden]

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.

xcopy32 c:\*.* d:\*.* /s/e/c/i/h/r/k SLG "Roger Squires" <[email hidden]> wrote:

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>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 >[email hidden] > > >

(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)

On Sun, 09 Sep 2001 23:35:24 GMT, "Roger Squires" <[email hidden]> wrote: >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. get ghost. it's made by norton and is a great way to make an exact clone of the source disk.

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. "Roger Squires" <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:01Tm7.3682$[email hidden]...

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> 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 > [email hidden]

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