Date: Tue, 18 Apr 2000 11:38:41 -0400
From: Garry Wiegand <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: How To Get Win95 etc. on my prospective L70 Hard Drive Upgrade?
Arndt Schoenewald <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>I usually connect both drives to the 2 IDE channels of a desktop PC
>using two 2.5"->3.5" adapters, and then use Partition Magic to copy
>everything over and perhaps adjust the sizes of the partitions so
>they fill the new drive (which is of course always bigger than the
>old one ;-)
This procedure has failed completely for me in the past. The Libretto BIOS
reserves the last ~64MB of the drive to itself, to hold the hibernation data.
This changes the drive geometry that the software sees, making it different
from the same drive as seen from a desktop. If you lay out partitions on the
Libretto, and then plug the drive into a desktop, my experience is that you
can copy data using programs like XCOPY, but programs like Partition Magic
(or at least my old version) will refuse to try to touch the disk. If on the
other hand you lay out the partitions on the desktop, and then plug the drive
into the Libretto, the first time the Libretto hibernates it will overwrite
64 megabytes of your file system data. This is bad.
What I actually had to do was:
1) Lay out and format the new drive using the Libretto. If you're using
Win95/Win98, first run fdisk, then run format.
2) Then copy the data to the new drive while it's plugged into the desktop.
If you're using Win95/Win98, boot up Windows, and type in:
sys y:
xcopy /c/h/e/k/i x:\* y:\
where "x" is the old driver and "y" is the new drive.
Hope this helps.
Garry
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