My laptop (HP Pavilion n5470, 1GHz Athlon, 256RAM, 20GB HD) is something of a laboratory environment for me. I'm a student, and everything is on my desktop, and I can try things on the laptop without worrying that I'll crash my world.
I've had 98se on it all this time, and just got W2K Pro at a beautiful student discount, so I put it on the lapper and I have DriveImage 4.0, so I imaged it to an extended partition at the back end of the HD. My hope is to be able to keep an image available for quick restore if I ever have to. I've played with it a couple of times, to get confident -- made some changes to the C partition, and then restored from the image, and sure enough, it perfectly restored. Then I deleted the C and restored from the DriveImage rescue floppy and the image on the extended partition. It worked!!
I like W2K a lot, and the DI has impressed me, so I'm looking at the desktop now (custom 900MHz Athlon, 256 RAM, 2 x 30GB HD's). I copied the image over on my home network, onto a partition I created for it. Then I cleared some unallocated space out of the desktop's 98 partition (with 30GB, I have lots of disk to play with), and asked DI to restore the W2K image to the empty space. It said it was successful, and PQMagic shows the W2K there, but when I booted to it, the first thing that came up was a DOS message saying the file NTOSKRNL.exe in System32 was missing or corrupted. Bummer. I know I can always just clear the partition again and actually install W2K from the CD, but then all the other programs already installed on the laptop and contained in the image would have to be re-installed on the desktop. I would love to be able to copy NTOSKRNL.exe from the laptop and put it into the desktop W2K but I can't figure any way to do that. The file is bigger than a floppy. I tried the W2K boot disk I made on the laptop, but that doesn't get me in at the DOS level. I can't think of any way of replacing NTOSKRNL.exe "on-site".
Any clues?
I've had 98se on it all this time, and just got W2K Pro at a beautiful student discount, so I put it on the lapper and I have DriveImage 4.0, so I imaged it to an extended partition at the back end of the HD. My hope is to be able to keep an image available for quick restore if I ever have to. I've played with it a couple of times, to get confident -- made some changes to the C partition, and then restored from the image, and sure enough, it perfectly restored. Then I deleted the C and restored from the DriveImage rescue floppy and the image on the extended partition. It worked!!
I like W2K a lot, and the DI has impressed me, so I'm looking at the desktop now (custom 900MHz Athlon, 256 RAM, 2 x 30GB HD's). I copied the image over on my home network, onto a partition I created for it. Then I cleared some unallocated space out of the desktop's 98 partition (with 30GB, I have lots of disk to play with), and asked DI to restore the W2K image to the empty space. It said it was successful, and PQMagic shows the W2K there, but when I booted to it, the first thing that came up was a DOS message saying the file NTOSKRNL.exe in System32 was missing or corrupted. Bummer. I know I can always just clear the partition again and actually install W2K from the CD, but then all the other programs already installed on the laptop and contained in the image would have to be re-installed on the desktop. I would love to be able to copy NTOSKRNL.exe from the laptop and put it into the desktop W2K but I can't figure any way to do that. The file is bigger than a floppy. I tried the W2K boot disk I made on the laptop, but that doesn't get me in at the DOS level. I can't think of any way of replacing NTOSKRNL.exe "on-site".
Any clues?
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