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Is there an easy way to upgrade a hard drive without a working installCD?
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? |
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Is there an easy way to upgrade a hard drive without a working install CD?
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. -- Regards Ron Badour MS MVP 1997 - 2008 "SlickRCBD" wrote in message . .. 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? |
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Is there an easy way to upgrade a hard drive without a workinginstall CD?
Ron Badour wrote:
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. Would this allow me to install a new C drive, hook up the old drive TEMPORARILY as a D drive, and copy my current installation onto the new C drive the way i could if I had another computer make an image of the current C drive with Ghost and image it onto the new drive? Making a perfect image is not as important so long as the end result lets me use all my programs and hardware and keeps my data intact, hence why I mentioned "XCOPY d: c: /E /H /K". Would that work? It's the simplest solution. Would the new C drive then be bootable and would my programs work? |
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