disk copy question with XP/WIN98

[MK]

Hi,
I'm trying to move a WIN98/XP Pro dual boot, set up by XP Pro, to a larger
Hard Drive. WIN 98 on C FAT32, XP on D NTFS, E extra space NTFS. I set up
the new drive the same way (3 partitions) with XP and transfered the files
booting from the floppy with the copy partition Utilities supplied by
WDigital. I put the new HD to Master and the tried Single (removing the old
HD). I also tried the same setting up the partitions with the WDig software
and transfering files again. I ran bootcfg /rebuild from recovery. When I
try to boot with the new HD, all I get is WIN98. What am I missing. It seems
all the relevant boot files are on the C drive.
TIA
Michael

 

[Ron Sommer]

Are you sure the utility copies NTFS files?

 

[Michael Stevens]

Hi,
I'm trying to move a WIN98/XP Pro dual boot, set up by XP Pro, to a
larger Hard Drive. WIN 98 on C FAT32, XP on D NTFS, E extra space
NTFS. I set up the new drive the same way (3 partitions) with XP and
transfered the files booting from the floppy with the copy partition
Utilities supplied by WDigital. I put the new HD to Master and the
tried Single (removing the old HD). I also tried the same setting up
the partitions with the WDig software and transfering files again. I
ran bootcfg /rebuild from recovery. When I try to boot with the new
HD, all I get is WIN98. What am I missing. It seems all the relevant
boot files are on the C drive. TIA
Michael

You need to image the complete drive with something like Drive Image/ BootIT
NG, then connect the new drive[set as the master] as the primary master and
the drive with the image somewhere else as a slave or secondary
master/slave.
Image the drive, shut and disconnect old drive before rebooting.
After system is running you can connect the old drive and format for
additional storage.
BootIT NG from Terabyte
http://www.terabyteunlimited.com/
Drive Image from Power Quest
http://www.powerquest.com/

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[MK]

The files are all there from what I can see.
MK

Are you sure the utility copies NTFS files?

 

[MK]

Hi,
I'm trying to move a WIN98/XP Pro dual boot, set up by XP Pro, to a
larger Hard Drive. WIN 98 on C FAT32, XP on D NTFS, E extra space
NTFS. I set up the new drive the same way (3 partitions) with XP and
transfered the files booting from the floppy with the copy partition
Utilities supplied by WDigital. I put the new HD to Master and the
tried Single (removing the old HD). I also tried the same setting up
the partitions with the WDig software and transfering files again. I
ran bootcfg /rebuild from recovery. When I try to boot with the new
HD, all I get is WIN98. What am I missing. It seems all the relevant
boot files are on the C drive. TIA
Michael

You need to image the complete drive with something like Drive Image/
BootIT NG, then connect the new drive[set as the master] as the primary
master and the drive with the image somewhere else as a slave or secondary
master/slave.
Image the drive, shut and disconnect old drive before rebooting.
After system is running you can connect the old drive and format for
additional storage.
BootIT NG from Terabyte
http://www.terabyteunlimited.com/
Drive Image from Power Quest
http://www.powerquest.com/

--
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(e-mail address removed)
http://michaelstevenstech.com
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Hi,
I took your advice and bought BootIT NG, which I had been contemplating
anyways, cleaned the new hard drive and set it up by copying and pasting the
partitions in BootIt NG (booting frfom CD and bypassing setup). Took out the
old HD. Now I have the log-on, but XP gives me C0000218 registry failure
cannot load default... and WIN 98 DISK I/O error. (I had been able to boot
to WIN98 before.) The old HD was 40 GB maxtor, new 160 GB WD. I didn't
change the partition sizes, just copied and added the extra space to the
third partition (non-booting, data only). I had run chkdsk on the old HD
partitons before the copy several times to be sure. I can still boot from
the old HD if I put it back to master. With the new HD a slave, I can
"access"/see everything. I have SP2 on XP and the BIOS is recognises more
than 137 GB (According to the Asus site and what I see in the BIOS).
Any suggestions as to what I'm doing wrong? I'd hate to reinstall all on the
new HD.
Thanks
Michael