Date: Mon, 17 May 2004 20:31:27 +0200 From: Philip Nienhuis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: [LIB] Strategy for changing the hard disk on a Libretto
Sylvain Bouju wrote: > > 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 : <snip> > >> - 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. So I tried, but since a few weeks for some strange reason some messages to the list from me have never arrived. : <snip> > > 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, Sure, the switches I outlined in a recent message work only from a DOS box in 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 ??? Not needed, when Win98 boots you can press F5 and you will be presented a boot menu with "DOS" shown below. You can also hand-edit msdos.sys (after making it editable with attrib -r -s -h msdos.sys), search the Microsoft site or google for details. > 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...? The image of the Win98 stuff is one thing I would put beyond 8 GB anyway... > Thank you to all contributors, as I really feel now with > a recurrent problem less:-) You are welcome, 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 **************************************************************
