BootIt Next Generation is available from:
http://www.terabyteunlimited.com/bootitng.html and it does partitioning,
makes a compressed image, does many other partitioning chores and is a boot
manager. It is not quite as easy to use as Partition Magic but it is half
the cost and has more features. Unlike the crippled PMagic demo, BING is a
*full function* demo you can try for FREE for 30 days. The web site has a
lot of support articles.


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Regards

Ron Badour
MS MVP 1997 - 2008


"SlickRCBD" wrote in message
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I want to upgrade the hard drive in a win98SE machine, possibly creating
multiple boot options with XP and Linux available, but my OEM-supplied CD
is broken. I have a generic Win98 CD, but I don't have the drivers for my
computer, and I'm unsure which drivers I'd need to redownload, and if I
pick the wrong network drivers, I'd be SOL.

Is there a way to image my old 40gb hard drive onto a larger disk when I
don't have a third storage unit avilable that is large enough to hold the
image? I do NOT own Norton Ghost, or any other imaging software, so
whatever is recommended would have to be available for free download and
at least one trial use.

Back in the days of MS-DOS, I'd just install the new HD as a C drive and
move the old drive to the D, format the new HD, partition it, and then
XCOPY *.* everything on the D drive to the C drive using a couple switches
that I can't remember off-hand (I'll have to XCOPY /?) to copy everything.
Will this work with Win98SE or is there a similar simple procedure?