Date: Fri, 14 May 2004 17:22:14 +0000 From: "Matt Hanson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: [LIB] Strategy for changing the hard disk on a Libretto
Sylvain,
It's a little hard for me to understand what the problem is that you're having from what you have written so far.
At one point your wrote you have a 20GB (Go) hard drive:
On Tue, 11 May 2004 14:54:00 +0200 Sylvain Bouju wrote:
I just made some try with Partition Magic in my Libretto, which actually contains a 20 GB IBM Travelstar; this disk had been FDISKed for a single max partition with a Win98SE boot diskette (-> around 8 GB), and then installed with Windows 98 SE.
And later you wrote about your 20GB (Go) drive:
On Thu, 13 May 2004 09:57:47 +0200 Sylvain Bouju wrote:
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: <cut message here>
<Conitinue message:>
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?
Then in your last message you told Philip you wrote about your problem getting one of the hard drives to boot into Windows past the blinking DOS C:\> prompt:
On Thu, 13 May 2004 23:25:05 +0200 Sylvain wrote: Philip Nienhuis a écrit le 13/05/04 12:17:
> 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.
What is exactly the trick in order to make my new c: partition able to boot? I have booted from the floppy and made c: active under FDISK, but when I restart without the floppy, I get nothing more than the blinking c: and Windows 98 does not start...
I'm not quite sure which hard drive you have in your Libretto with the blinking C:\> prompt at this point that is not starting Windows. And I can only guess what you have done at this point.
* Which HDD is it that only boots to the C:\> DOS prompt? The 10GB HDD, or 20GB HDD?
* Am I correct in thinking that you originally had a 10GB HDD in your Libretto, and now you want to replace it with a 20GB HDD?
* What exactly have you done to both HDDs at this point? Especially, what have you done to the HDD that only boots to the C:\> prompt?
* On Tue, 11 May you wrote (above) that you, "...then installed with Windows 98 SE" on the 20GB HDD. Did that copy of W98SE boot properly at that point?
* Then in this most recent message you wrote about a drive that only booted to a c:\> DOS prompt. If that was the 20GB HDD, did you deleted or write over your original W98SE installation, and then attempt to 'mirror' (or in PC terms: 'image') the entire contents of your 10GB HDD to the 20GB HDD? If you did that, how just how did you go about doing it?
Matt
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