Drive Image 2002 Rescue Boot disks under XP?

[Bob]

I'm preparing for the installation of a new hard drive on my WIN XP
SP1A (NTFS) system. I am planning on using Drive Image 2002 to do a
disk-to-disk clone of my existing boot drive (and associated
partitions) to the brand new drive, so I though I'd better create a set
of Drive Image rescue bootable floppy disks so that I could just boot
off them and go straight into DI after connecting the power and IDE
cables to the new drive. That went fine, but when I went to boot from
them, my system complained about A:\IBMDOS.COM...I forget what the
exact error message was.

Now that I think more about this, maybe I don't need to boot from the
rescue disks, but I am concerned that XP will not like the brand new
drive when I boot with it installed. Or will it be OK and I can just
use the full Windows version of DI to do the clone?

How does one make a set of DI rescue boot floppy disks that will work in
an XP/NTFS system?

Thanks,
Bob

 

[Rod Speed]

I'm preparing for the installation of a new hard drive on my WIN XP
SP1A (NTFS) system. I am planning on using Drive Image 2002 to do a
disk-to-disk clone of my existing boot drive (and associated
partitions) to the brand new drive, so I though I'd better create a set
of Drive Image rescue bootable floppy disks so that I could just boot
off them and go straight into DI after connecting the power and IDE
cables to the new drive. That went fine, but when I went to boot from
them, my system complained about A:\IBMDOS.COM...I forget what the
exact error message was.

Probably just IBMDOS not liking your system.

Now that I think more about this, maybe
I don't need to boot from the rescue disks,
Correct.

but I am concerned that XP will not like the
brand new drive when I boot with it installed.

Yes, you do need to stop the reboot that happens
just after the clone has completed, so XP doesnt
boot with both the original and the clone visible to it.

Or will it be OK and I can just use the full
Windows version of DI to do the clone?

Yes, but you do need to catch it on the reboot after the clone
has completed so you can unplug the original drive before it boots.

How does one make a set of DI rescue boot
floppy disks that will work in an XP/NTFS system?

Just the way you did it. There's something about the
system it doesnt like and you need to work out what
it is to be able to boot from the rescue floppys.

You should be able to boot the Drive Image distribution
CD too if you actually have one of those.