Date: Sun, 16 May 2004 23:12:57 +0100 From: "George Waller" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: [LIB] Strategy for changing the hard disk on a Libretto
...this is doing my head in! I posted earlier regards HDD swap using EZ-GIG and looks as if Sylvain has raised a similar query but we are still looking for a simple step-by-step explanation of the procedure by the looks of it! Assuming I have the standard BIOS currently installed on my CT100 running Win95B ( and do not know how to upgrade the BIOS at all), a bootable floppy provided by EZ-GIG in one hand, a shiny new HDD in the other (would it make it easier if I simply bought a new SAME SIZE HDD instead of the 10Gb?) - what is the exact procedure?... all I understand at present is that according to EZ-GIG is: 1. remove existing HDD 2. fit new HDD 3. boot up using the EZ-GIG supplied floppy 4. copy the existing (removed HDD) to the new via supplied cable ------- This does appear too simple - I assume there could be a BIOS issue to tackle (at what stage during the above steps, and by what method?). Also this business of partitions - completely Chinese to me I am afraid to say (have never dabbled in partitioning my existing HDD) - I understand however that a part of the HDD needs to be set aside for the hibernation feature of the Libretto - is the partitioning/formatting not all dealt with as a step-by-step process of the EZ-GIG bootable floppy?? ----- Original Message ----- From: Sylvain Bouju <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Libretto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Saturday, May 15, 2004 10:51 AM Subject: Re: [LIB] Strategy for changing the hard disk on a Libretto Date: Sat, 15 May 2004 11:49:57 +0200 From: Sylvain Bouju <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: [LIB] Strategy for changing the hard disk on a Libretto Matt Hanson a écrit le 15/05/04 8:19: >> - a first try installing win98se on it from scratch on a single 8GB >> partition (hoping to manage the remaining space later) > Did your Libretto boot to the Windows desktop after you installed it to your > new 20GB HDD? If so, did you try installing PM at that point to see if it > was able to see the entire 20GB HDD space? Yes, it has normally booted. I have also tried PM at this point, which has not seen anything after the 1st booting partition. >> - a second try having made first the 3 partitions as wanted (8GB, 78 MB >> for the hibernation and 10+ GB) with the good working method with >> lds100ct + FDISK (hoping this time to avoid a complete reinstallation >> of my environnement by copying it with some method from my well >> working 10GB to the first c: partition of the 20GB) > > Philip will have to address that. This is a totally new approach to me. This has worked OK, again, and I have now been able to go further, with another very good french free program: "savepart" founded here: <http://www.partition-saving.com> I think Ghost or Drive Image can do the same, but this one is free, simple and very effective. So, I have use it in order to make a file imaging the c: partition of my old working 10GB, then I have copied (via firewire) this file on the third 10+ GB partition of the new 20 GB disk, and copied too the "savepart" program itself to this same partition. Finally, I have put the 20GB hard disk inside the Libretto, booted it on a: with my win98se boot disk, launched the program" savepart" on e:, and with it restored the image file of my previous environement to the new c: partition. And this time, the reboot on c: has worked properly, and I have recover everything like before...:-) > Yes... I see in the help information for xcopy that you have to add the /H > switch to copy over hidden and system files. That may be your problem. Did > you run that /H command when you copied file from the 10GB HDD to the 20GB > HDD? Yes, I had set the /h command on. May be the problem has occured because I had made this xcopy from the MS-DOS command which is in the start menu of Windows, and not from a DOS floppy? For "savepart", which don't works under Windows (as I have understood...), I did the image copy after a boot on a: with my win98se boot disk. For the next time, it may be a good idea to split the first 8GB area of any big disk in three partitions, if possible: a very little one for DOS mode working avoiding the use of the floppy disk drive, a 4GB for the main OS, and another 4GB for backups, image of the main OS partition, the win98 folder, or others important or basic things like that. Then, in the remaining disk space, first the little 78 MB partition for the hibernation area, and finally the rest of the disk, may be splitted in some other partitions depending of what is needed...? Thank you to all contributors, as I really feel now with a recurrent problem less:-) -- Sylvain Bouju [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- ************************************************************** 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 ************************************************************** ************************************************************** http://libretto.basiclink.com - Libretto mailing list http://www.silverace.com/libretto/ - Archives -------TO UNSUBSCRIBE------- Reply to any of the list messages. 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