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What is the easiest way to transfer a working OS (win98se) onto another drive? **fixed..thanks**

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moocat

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I have a fresh install of win98se along with drivers and tweaks and a few apps. I want to move everything onto a new bootable partition. I have Disk Image Pro but haven't been able to make it do what I need (user error has not been ruled out 🙂 ).

 
From my experiences, Norton Ghost is the best way to do that, it works flawlessly and it's pretty fast I think. It's great.


 
Yield, do you run Microsoft Office 2000? If yes, when you used Norton Ghost did you have to re-register MS Office 2000?
 
I formated several partitions 2 in NTFS and 3 in Fat32 but at the time I did not notice Partition Magic has a right click feature of selecting the 4k clusters which I need in both NTFS and Fat32, I read it becomes 5X faster that way.

I backed up with Norton Ghost my present instalations of both win98 (non 4k clusters) and win2k ASP (non 4k clusters)
can I change the clusters without a reformat? and not loose my stuff? If I reformat to 4k clusters and restore Norton Ghost backup Image, will it revert the present non 4k clusters?
I know I could test it but so much sweeter if it was done b4.

I need 4k clusters in both Fat32 and NTFS partitions.
 
I meant 'drive' image pro...sorry about that.

I made an image file from the original bootable partition and put it on an extended partition on the new drive. I then restored the image to the primary partition on the new drive. It won't boot from there though. It get to the "verifying DMI pool data...." message and then just sits there. I have to assume I messed something up in the transfer of didn't set up the primary partition on the new drive correctly.

 
I've tried copying the OS partition to the new drive again...same problem, no boot. I've tried restoring an image file created using the OS partition and restoring it to the new drive...no boot. Please, does anyone have anymore ideas?
 
I did that exact thing with Drive Image Pro 6.0

Took my Win98 boot disk, booted up in dos mode.
Stuck in the DIP CD and ran the executable (it's not a setup you run straight from the CD).

I believe the 3rd option on the list is copy a parition.

Don't bother making an image of the partition that just wastes time and space....there is a specific partition copy option.

When I get home I'll take a look and get exact steps if you can't figure it out.
 
I've done a direct copy of the main OS partition. I've set it active and according to PM and DIP drive info it is bootable. What confuses me is that you are not supposed to have two 'visible' active partitions and yet I apparently do. As long as I set bios to boot from my original drive it boots fine. If I set bios to boot from my newly copied (and active/bootable) partition it hangs at the "verifying DMI pool data..." message. I've also tried having only the new drive connected and I get the same results..no boot.

The drives are jumpered correctly or I doubt it would boot at all regardless of which drive it was setup to boot from.

I know this is something obvious and silly that I've overlooked and is getting glossed over in the information I'm posting...I appreciate the help.
 
Hiya Noriaki 🙂
I ss your copy a partition but in my case I mad a backup image b4 I totaly setup all my files so incase things go bad ai can at least recoop 4 hours of work ansd start there.

Now since then I learned that Partition magic has a set cluster size optionn by right clicking. also that 4k clusters in fat 32 partitions work 5 times faster with win2k booted at 4k clusters than 1k or 1/2 k or 8k it was tested by somone.

Not knowing how and where to set the clusters as I formated my 2 60 gig drives into a 120 meg Raid 0 I now need to convert the partitions. can it be doen without a reformat? and if not read on...

so for me copying will not work for 2 reasons. one the win98 has a problem with Nero and I cannot solve it with any knowm solution and I need to restore the image and restart from there. This made me realize I can now reset my partitions to fat32 4k clusters, but I fear the restoration will reimage back my non 4k clusters. I hopee I do not need to redo my win 98 from start.

This is importand for all of u to know if u want to do Vid editing with optimum use of both fat32 ans NTFS partitions.

any ideas anyone or u Noriaki?
 
still working on this...anyone else have a suggestion. I tried the 'filecopy' utility, LukFilm...no go with that either.

HelllllP!
 
No..I havn't tried that. How do I go about doing that. I know I've done it at least once before, but for the life of me can't remember what I did.
 
Try using a program called "Clone Directory" you can find it at download.com by doing a search. Just partition and format the new drive (make sure you make the partition bootable). Then use Clone Directory to copy everything from your current drive to the new one. And It should work... it has for me anyways.

-LeeBear
 
I'm pretty sure the problem is not related to the software I'm using to copy the partition. Both DiskImagePro and the Filecopy utilities appeared to have worked as the partition shows up as bootable. I think I need to look in another direction.

I'm getting pretty close to just reinstalling from scratch...I would have already but I'm stubborn and don't like to leave problems like this unsolved (eventually you run into them again ).

Thanks for all the advice and please feel free to keep making suggestions...I would really like to figure this out.
 
Sounds like your new drive needs a new master boot record.

Remove all drives except the new one, set the BIOS to boot from it.

Boot from a bootable floppy and fdisk /mbr.

Reboot from the new drive, should go right into Windows (assuming the image was ok to begin with).



Jeremy

 
It was the MBR!! I love this forum...saves me money, time, and what little hair I have left. Come on..group hug 🙂
 
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