L.D.,
Expanding on Bernie's suggestion of using two computers, DR-DOS has a
program, FILELINK, that can be used to transfer files from one computer to
another. When I decided to transfer this computer from my office (where I
rarely used it) to my home, I copied all the files from the computer that
would remain in the office to this one. Although FILELINK documentation says
that it will *not* create directories or subdirectories, it *does*!
PowerQuest, the makers of PartitionMagic, has two programs for copying hard
drives, DRIVECOPY, and DRIVEIMAGE, IIRC. I would be very hesitant to use any
program that creates an image of one drive onto an new drive. (What if the
new drive has bad clusters where the old drive didn't?)
Hope this helps.
Roger Turk
Tucson, Arizona
Bernie wrote:
>>l.d wrote:
>Anyone have any ideas about other software that can take over the
>naming/recognition of drives during a major copy of one HDD to another?
If you want to move the files then you can do that (as long as z: is free).
You'll need to change your partition table (fdisk) after each drive is
copied, and reboot and so. It works (and is rather easy), just make sure
you don't accidently remove the incorrect drive, I lost ca 200-300MB of
data which I don't even know what it was (so no big loss anyway <G>).
Another sollution is if you have two computer (and a network) is to set up
Personal NetWare and copy everything from one computer to the other.
However there's a limit in how many files this will copy (or perhaps with
DR-DOS xcopy) so it might not work (didn't work well for me and I instead
tried the above idea I got instead).<<
