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June 20, 2000 at 06:20 AM
jposge

HOW TO MOVE WINDOWS FROM SMALL TO LARGER

by jposge . Updated 25 years, 11 months ago

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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