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  • October 13, 2003 at 8:50 pm #2279107

    Copy one drive to another?

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    by pkdesign · about 19 years, 8 months ago

    I have a laptop with two partitions running
    Win98SE. How do I copy everything from one
    partition to the other and make it the boot
    volume?

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    • October 13, 2003 at 9:48 pm #3383834

      Reply To: Copy one drive to another?

      by dmiles · about 19 years, 8 months ago

      In reply to Copy one drive to another?

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

    • October 14, 2003 at 5:35 am #3383778

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      by sgt_shultz · about 19 years, 8 months ago

      In reply to Copy one drive to another?

      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

    • October 21, 2003 at 11:19 am #2741411

      Reply To: Copy one drive to another?

      by pkdesign · about 19 years, 7 months ago

      In reply to Copy one drive to another?

      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.

    • February 28, 2004 at 9:50 pm #3383129

      Reply To: Copy one drive to another?

      by wlbowers · about 19 years, 3 months ago

      In reply to Copy one drive to another?

      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

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