Hmm. EVERY exerience I have had with moving or cloning bootable
vfat partitions like this (ie, using cp -a or tar or dd whatever)
has been a total failure, with MANY more problems than can be
sumarised as simply being drive-letter sensitivity. The problems
are endless on the raw-cloned system (if you ever do get it to
boot).
My advice is to clone vfat partitions using either ghost.exe
from a dos boot disk, or partition image. But do an excellent job
of cloning vfat installs, and even handle installing the image onto
different sized partitions (and different partitions).
Unfortunately, ghost.exe is commercial (the netbios network-capable
"enterprise" edition is worth a small fortune for a site licence),
but partition image is free (http://partimage.souirceforge.net/).
Both work with vfat AND linux partitions. Both are way cool.
On Sun Nov 26 2000 at 22:39, "Marcin Mankowski" wrote:
> I to move my Windows from the partition number
> 2 to the partition number 0 (1st).
>
> My plan is the following.
> I will mount my Windows partition, then I will archive or copy
> the whole tree to the second disk.
> I will repartition my first hard disk and next
> I will format the first partition using Windows boot floppy
> and then I will boot to linux and
> I will copy/restore my Windows data/tree/files from the second disk
> to the newly formatted partition.
>
> Will Windows 98 be usable after the plain copy? Do they have some magic
> files or tricks?
>
> What do you think? Is there a better way to move/copy Windows to the first
> partition?
>
> (The reason I need to do it is that my System Commander got corrupted.)
>
> Thankx in advance.
> Marcin Mankowski
On Sun Nov 26 2000 at 23:02, Tom Oehser wrote:
> Mostly, it is all drive-letter sensitive. That is, if Windows still sees
> C: as C: and D: as D: and cetera, it will be fine. You can just do the:
>
> fdisk /mbr
>
> and/or
>
> sys C:
>
> to refixerate the boot record and the system files correctly, from the
> Windows recovery floppy.
>
> If you try to make C: into D:, you are screwed, because the drive letters
> get hard coded shotgun everywhere.
>
> -Tom
>
Cheers
Tony
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