Date: Thu, 13 May 2004 12:17:32 +0200 From: Philip Nienhuis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: [LIB] Strategy for changing the hard disk on a Libretto
Sylvain Bouju wrote: > > Date: Thu, 13 May 2004 09:57:47 +0200 > From: Sylvain Bouju <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Strategy for changing the hard disk on a Libretto Sylvain: > Being french and basically a Mac user, sorry in advance None of those matter at all. You've got a Libretto and want help, that does matter. > for everything related to these points... > > I am quite happy for everything with my Libretto 100 CT > with some 10 Go HD inside (and only 8 Go usable) because > I use it only for a few programs car oriented: web browsing > naturaly, for softwares installs or updates essentially, > cartography and gps (serial & bluetooth), WinAmp and mp3, > tides prediction. <what is a "Go" - do you mean "GB"?> To use the rest of your HD (10 or 20 GB) just skip the EZ-drive and PM fandango and external drive trickery. Go the easy way, and grab LDS100ct from Bockey's site: http://bockey.ipcon.de/MB_DOS/LDS100CT.LZH and unpack LDS100CT.EXE from it (probably with Winzip). Just run this program from DOS just before you use FDISK and you are all set. With help of lds100ct.exe, FDISK can see all of your HD. You never ever have to use lds100ct.exe again unless you repartition your HD with FDISK. To deal with hibernation area: make empty space of (minimum) 71 MB immediately beyond 8 GB limit (= end of your current partition). You can do this easily by making a temporary 71 MB logical partition, make more logical partitions as you wish, and then just delete the 71 MB partition. Below I've answered your actual question. Still, from my experience I think the procedure above is by far the easiest. Just my $.02 > At home, I use it in the extended dock, in which I have > a firewire PCMCIA card with which I can use a CD reader > an writer for every thing CD oriented, except for the > initial installation of Windows 98 SE... This is very long, > not specially for the OS install, but in order to reinstall > all the OS updates, programs and drivers I need. > > One question is: can I do like I do with my Macintosh, > a mirror copy from my current internal hard disk to another > external 2,5'hard disk in a firewire enclosure, and > then swap the disks, and with quite nothing more to do, > be able to restart and use the Libretto with all my > usual and stable environnement on this new disk as before? I don't know the mirror copy, but you just don't need it provided you use Win95, Win98, Win98SE or WinME (doesn't work anymore with Win2K and up): you can accomplish the same in a much easier way with plain old xcopy from your Win98. I've done exactly the same thing repeatedly (well exactly the same .... I used a PCMCIA 2.5" external HD enclosure rather than firewire). First you have to make sure the HD in your 2,5" enclosure is appropriately partitioned (use lds100ct & fdisk as outlined above when it is still in the Libretto; in your firewire thing you might be able to partition it without help of lds100ct). Format the partition (fat32) and transfer system files (as Windows copies the system files from the default drive, you must change directory to C: first): C: cd \ sys <$$$>: where <$$$> stand for the drive letter of the primary partition in the 2.5" enclosure. Then type: xcopy c:*.* <$$$>:\ /s /e /c /h /k (/s copy all subdir files /e also copy all empty subdirs /c continue on errors (otherwise xcopy stops when it tries to copy the swapfile) /h also copy system & hidden files /k also copy attributes literally <$$$> = drive letter of Windows partition in external drive, see FDISK output). Copying Win98 may take quite some time, but mirroring won't be any faster. The swap file won't/can't be copied, but don't worry Windows will recreate it when it boots. Oh yes and this way you have an added bonus: your "new" Win98 partition will be neatly defragmented. Beware of this hitch: Before you can boot the new Win98 in the Lib, the Win98 partition must be made the default boot partition: so, boot from a DOS floppy, run lds100ct (just to be sure) and FDISK, and make the Win98 "active". You can't do this with FDISK through "networked" drives (and Windows considers all removable drives to be "networked" in this respect), you must do this with the HD in the Libretto. One more thing: while you are quite smart to avoid the 8 GB limit by partitioning your 20 GB HD through your firewire HD, don't even think you can escape taking care of the hibernation space this way. So, again, be sure to partition that 20 GB drive in your Libretto first. Just run fdisk (without lds100ct.exe) to make the biggest primary partition possible, make it active, then swap it into the 2.5" enclosure and proceed further as outlined above. Or, again, use lds100ct and rerun fdisk to finish the rest of the partitioning and then install/copy win98. Or (IMO better) reconsider the first part of my reply. Philip ************************************************************** http://libretto.basiclink.com - Libretto mailing list http://www.silverace.com/libretto/ - Archives -------TO UNSUBSCRIBE------- Reply to any of the list messages. The reply mail should be addressed to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Then replace any text on the message's subject line: cmd:unsubscribe --------TO UNSUBSCRIBE DIGEST------ Do above but with this on subject line: cmd:unsubscribe digest **************************************************************
