At 12:05 AM 4/20/00 -0500, you wrote:
>checked all the connections and they seem solid. I assume that this
>means that the hard drive might be about to fail. correct?
Good idea to do a backup at the least.
Xcopy is a questionable solution at best. If you do not have access to
imaging software, try backing up your configuration, data and document
files and all installation files onto the new drive, in a small partition
for storage (after fdisking and formatting it) and then in the primary
partition, after resetting it as master, install everything new from the
get go, replace all the configuration, data and document files, and then
you could even slave in the old drive for awhile to see how it works,
retrieve anything you discover you forgot, etc.
I would do the following: add the new drive as a slave, either by setting
the jumpers on the two drives in the proper master and slave configuration
on the same ide channel, or put both as master, new one on 2ndary IDE if
you have and setting it in BIOS.
Boot to dos or restart in dos, which ever works for you, and use fdisk (it
lets you pick the drive you want to mess with). Set up a decent size
partitioning on the new drive so you can both install on the primary
partition, and use the extended for backups.
restart windows
format the two new partitions
do a search for *.ini files, *.db files, all your documents and media stuff
(songs, written stuff, products of stuff, etc) your favorites folder, your
phonebooks and address books, your spreadsheets, etc, all your "stuff"
zip it for easy storage and save it to the second partition on the new drive.
shut down
exchange the two drives, new to master on primary, old to slave on primary
or master on secondary (depends where the cdrom is put too) reset the bios,
and boot to standard win98 boot floppy with the installation cd in your
cdrom. If your cdrom doesn't work with that floppy for being unusual, copy
over the installation files while still in windows to the new drive, from
the cdrom
install new to the new drive. Windows really does work better if you
reinstall when making major equipment changes. Even upgrading the ram can
make a difference, though not as much as a new drive!
replace all the backup files to their original places after reinstalling
the applications. yes, it can be time consuming, but it's always nice to
start fresh and much more satisfying if done in planned manner without data
loss, than after "nature" forces it on you with a major hardware failure.
If you find databases missing when you go back (saved mail for instance)
you can copy it off the old drive still sitting loaded and complete, slaved in.
After you are satisfied, you can either reformat the old drive and see how
long you can keep using it, or remove it, resetting any jumpers you might
need to change back, and changing the bios one more time.
have fun!
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