Copy one drive to another?

You will need partition magic software to merge the two without losing any data.

say your current 'active' (boot) partition is c: and the second is d:
to copy the files. start windows. from command prompt (start/run/command ), type:
xcopy32 c: d: /c /h /e /k /r /f
that will copy windows 'out from under itself'. note: you need to be *in* windows, at a command prompt. xcopy32 switches not the same in dos only mode.
next, boot from win98 startup floppy and run sys command on d: (sys a: d:) then run fidisk to change d: to active partition. that should do it. if you put a line in autoexec on the d: drive like "we are booting from the new partition!" then another line: pause
then you can see easily see if it is working

sgt shultz's suggestion only worked half way. It
did seem to copy everything from drive c: to
drive d: but after using fdisk to move the active
partition...nothing, no booting at all. I have to
boot with Win98 Startup disk and move active
partion back. BTW, unless the WIN98 SE CD
is in the drive, the Win98 Startup disk does
nothing.

You can try this. First chant to the dos idiots and turn in a circle three times.

This will not work is there is any non partitioned or partitioned space on the hard drive before the boot partition c:.

Copy everything back to the c: partition.

Boot to a 98SE boot disk that has sys.com on it.

At the a: prompt type sys c: and press enter/return.

Now if you are lucky, very very lucky.

If it was me I would put the drive on another machine and copy what I want from it, then drop the hammer and start over.

Good Luck Lee