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HOW TO MOVE WINDOWS FROM SMALL TO LARGER

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I have windows95 running on a 500 meg hard drive and need to move it to a 2 gig drive. After formatting the drive, I copied the small drive to the new large drive with XCOPY32 e:*.* c: /e command.

I then installed the new large drive as the c: drive but windows will not start. I get an error message – HIMEM.SYS is missing. Doing a DIR of C:\Windows I find that HIMEM.SYS is there!

What is the proper way (or is there) to copy my working windows95 from the old drive to a new one short of purchasing Norton GHOST or a drive image copy program?

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You can’t do it! – that’s why there are such utilities as Norton GHOST and Drive Image. If there was a way, these utilities wouldn’t be needed. You might be able to download evaluation copies of these tools. Go to http://www.symantec.com and http://www.powerquest.com to find out.

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The problem is that there are a lot of files and programs that need to be registered with the system because the registry keeps a record of them even if it’s physically there the system still may not recognize it. In addition to Drive Image and Ghost, DriveCopy is also a good product, Drive Image won’t copy and will let you know if you’ve got software errors (you’ll have to fix them first), DriveCopy will unless you’ve got hard(drive)errors. I would suggest doing a re-install, I usually do this once a year to all my systems, just for maintenance to refurb(reformat, mark new error areas, check the mechanics) the drives.

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There is no options to transfereing OS’s without using third party software,You cannot do a backup to another drive connected to the same cable.Know anyone with a zip.

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The HIMEM.SYS file should be in these directories:
C:\WindowsC:\Windows\Command\Ebd
Often it’s also in the main directory – C:
If for some reason you haven’t it, then write me at [email protected] and I’ll send it to you.

In fact, there is noproblem for moving the Windows from the small to the large drive. First, connect the large drive as primary or secondary SLAVE, then run Windows (still from the old HDD). Copy all the content of the old drive to the new one (I suppose it’s formatted), then turn off the PC. Change the new HDD to be primary master, then start the PC. Enter in BIOS, and configure it to boot from the floppy drive (A). Put a start disk into it, then start, when you get the DOS prompt write this:
C:\> sys c:
Then restart normally from C: and use your Win from the 2 GB drive.

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When you purchase new hard disk drives whether it is Western Digital or Maxtor they come with disk diagnostics which not only detects your drive but it also copies the data from the old drive to the replacement or new drive. I use it all the time. If you want the diagnostic disk email me @ [email protected] and I’ll send it to ya

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set your large drive up as drive c, and the small one to as drive d
install windows to the large drive then copy the dll files from windows and windows sys on d: to the coresponding folders on c:. then just drag and drop your applications (some mayhave to be reinstalled, but most will run fine. Programs requiring a CD-ROM will have to be redirected

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You can copy the drive without a third party app:

1. Install the new drive as a slave (D:…fdisk and format it so that it is ready to receive files)
2. Boot into Windows95 (from C:) and make sure you can see the new D: drive.
3. In “My Computer properties” click Performance|File System|Troubleshooting and disable “New file…locking semantics”; then click “Virtual Memory” and disable virtual memory.
4. Reboot Then, from Windows Explorer, drag everything from C: to D: (make sure you havethe “show all files” options on)
5. Remove the old drive and make the new one bootable.

I’ve used this many times sucessfully with Windows95 (but not with Win98).

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You can do it without third party utilities. Go to Westerndigital.com and in their Technology Papers section do a search for “copy drive data”. One of your hits will be this: Western Digital Tip of the Month (March 1997) – Transferring files from the old drive to the new drive in Windows 95. This article is exactly what you need to do this. Its been a few years since I used it but your post made me remember it.

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Set up your new drive as slave on primary IDE channel.
Boot machine into Windows.
Goto MS-DOS prompt in Windows.
use xcopy as follows

xcopy32 c:\*.* d: /E/H/K

this will copy all directories, hidden and system files and the attributes.

Swap your new drive to be the master on the primary IDE channel.

You can see what switches are avialable for xcopy32 by entering xcopy32 /? at the dos prompt

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Update to my previous post, slight cockup in the command syntax and method (been a long time).

1. Hook up new drive
2. fdisk and format (if required)
3. Reboot into windows and from the dos prompt within windows (assuming drive is slave on primary IDE channel i.e. drive d:)
use xcopy32 c: d:/s/e/c/h/r/k
4. Then hook up new drive as the master on IDE1
5. Boot with a floppy disk
6. Type fdisk /mbr
7. Then sys c:
(you may need to set partition c: as active from within fdisk.)
8. Remove floppy and reboot

obviously your bootable floppy needs fdisk and sys commands on it. This does work, contrary to popular belief you do not need commercial software to do it.

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I do this quite often. Here is how:
Disconnect the IDE CD-ROM drive, connect the new drive to the CD-ROM cable.
Create partition on new drive with FDISK.
Reboot into Windows GUI.
In a DOS window, FORMAT D: /s
then change to second drive D:
Then ATTRIB -s -h -r *.*
Then XCOPY C:\*.* /h/e/c/k (easy to remember)
That will opy all files, directories, even hidden, and continue on errors.
Hake a boot disk, copy FDISK.EXE to it.
Rmove old drive, put mnew one as Primary, hook up the CDROM, and boot from floppy.
FDISK, set active partition.
Reboot. New drive just like old one.

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