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To: Mark A. Forte who wrote (225)	12/21/1997 1:05:00 AM
From: steve h	Respond to of 300

mark, when i've done this i did a full tape backup with the registry and then "recovered" to the new drive. Not very fast or elegant but it worked. I've not had luck trying to "copy" an entire drive plus the operating system (win95) from one to the other. wish i knew why. hope that helps, steve h

To: Mark A. Forte who wrote (225)	12/21/1997 3:03:00 AM
From: Goutam	Respond to of 300

Mark, Try the product "DISK COPY". I don't remember the manufacturer's name but this one you can find at many computer stores and costs close to $35. Using a backup tape is another solution but it's slow and requires a tape drive and a good tape backup tape software. DISK COPY allows to duplicate partitions from one physical drive to another (surprisingly, this product doesn't allow to create duplicate partitions on the same physical drive.) The partition's size on the destination disk can be either same or larger than the size of source partition. This product is specifically designed to address the needs that arise when one is trying to replace an existing drive. The key when using this product is, partition the new disk to have same number and type of partitions (not a must but makes it an easier process) as on the disk you are replacing (the new partition sizes can be larger though). Then copy each original partition to the corresponding partition on the new drive. After the duplication, simply remove the old drive and reconnect the new drive to take the position of old drive (interface wise, physical position is not an issue.) Good luck and Happy Holidays. Regards, Goutama

To: Mark A. Forte who wrote (225)	12/21/1997 4:18:00 AM
From: Joe NYC	Respond to of 300

Mark, There is another product called Ghost. It will take the image of your disk and store it as a file on another drive. You can than restore this image on a new drive. I have not used it, but I heard good things about it. Joe

To: Mark A. Forte who wrote (225)	12/21/1997 6:03:00 AM
From: Scott Sterling	Respond to of 300

I have done this without any additional software. The first couple of times I tried this I did something similar to what you did. I copied all files to the new drive using windows explorer, of course being careful when copying the windows directory because one or two files are open in write mode and the copy process ABORTS when it encounters it. I sys'ed the drive but it would not boot win 95 so I had to run setup which wiped out some settings--start menu, some drivers. I finally got the process to work w/o the need to setup by using the windows format utility to "windows-sys" the drive. --Scott