best way of moving W2K/W98 dualboot to new hard drive

[Wade]

Hi folks...

As the message says... I've got a new Maxtor 30GB drive I'll be installing today. My current Fujitsu 6.4 GB has W2K & W98 installed in dualboot (each OS in its own partition). The 30GB will be my main OS drive, so what's the easiest way of moving everything over?

If I was just dealing with W98 I'd ghost it over, but my version of ghost is quite old (version 3 I think) so I believe it won't work properly with the W2K partition. A newer version of ghost is not in the immediate cards (without resorting to piracy that is).

That said, what are my best options?

 

[Wade]

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[Wade]

Okay... haven't been able to find a newer version of Ghost, but am currently downloading a trial version of DriveImage Pro 4.0... with any luck this will do the same job for me.

Current plan:

1)install above mentioned trial of drive image
2)install new hard drive &amp; set up appropriate matching partitions
3)ghost (drive image) old hard drive to new hard drive
4)disconnect old drive
5)restore drive image
6)reboot, and if everything works, remove old drive

Am I missing anything?

 

[zzzz]

you don't need to setup partitions on your new drive. Drive image will give you option of either keeping the same size for your existing partitions while you are restoring them, or change. Actually when I think of it, you don't need to restore from an image. I think you can copy the entire contents of the HD to your new HD, make the appropriate partitions active, shut down, replace your olD HD with new and restart.
Or get a trial version of drive copy (if available), it will do the same thing.

 

[Wade]

Okay, done &amp; all seems to work well... here's what I did for anyone's future reference.

1) Connect the new hard drive... don't bother with any setup, the drive image app will take care of that.

2) Using Drive Image (or Ghost I'd imagine) do a disk-to-disk copy.

3) Using System/Partition Commander or Partition Magic, ensure that your partitions are indeed as you want them... make the appropriate partition on the new hard drive active.

4) Disconnect the old hard drive &amp; boot up to see if it works.

At this point everything worked fine, except W2K, which booted up just fine but wouldn't let me past the logon screen... it's pretty fussy about moving its bootup files to new hard drives... so this leads to the next step.

5) fdisk /mbr then restart the machine to boot into W2K, should be no problem.

I realize that if all doesn't go as well for you as it did for me that there are other steps necessary to ensure that the new W2K is on a partition with the same letter designation as the old W2K, but I knew that would cause problems to start with, so ensured that the transfer took that into account.

Cheers,
Wade