| Just another way and credit to a pretty good Win95/NT Site
http://www.conitech.com/windows/w95move.html
http://www.conitech.com For the starting page of Frank's C
Win95 site
BTW: I have used "Method one" many times. I do add this though, After
the drive has been swapped and booted to Win95. I do a running reload of
Win95/Plus/SP1/ and all updates that one feels they need (All for me).
This insures that Win95 know aobut your drive and that there are no
suprises awaiting you in the near future about your drive and Drive
interface. It only take me on my P133 about 30-40 minutes more.
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Frank Condron's Windows Page
Moving Windows 95 to Another Hard Drive
A common question in my Windows Conference area is, "I just bought a
new hard drive, and want to make it my
primary drive. How do I copy my current install of Windows 95 to the
new drive, so that it works without reinstalling
Windows 95?"
There are two methods that people have reported success using. Please
keep in mind that I have NOT personally
tested either of these methods. Be sure to make backups (as always!) of
your data before doing anything!
This document assumes you have the knowledge on how to physically
reconfigure and install the drives - only the
information on the actual transfer of Windows 95 from one drive to
another is discussed here. In both cases, the
drive Windows 95 is being transferred to must already be formatted with
the /s (include system files) option.
Method One:
The first method involves using XCOPY32.EXE from the RUN command. Click
on the START button, then select RUN.
NOTE: This must be run from within Windows 95 at the RUN command! Do
not attempt this from DOS boot, MS-DOS
Exclusive mode, or from a Command Prompt!
Once at the RUN prompt, the following command can be used to copy the
entire contents of the C: drive to the new D:
drive (substitute the drive letters that match your configuration, if
different):
c:\windows\command\xcopy32 c:\*.* d: /h /c /e /k
This command uses the new xcopy32.exe program, which will copy files
without losing their long file names.
The /h parameter tells xcopy32 to copy hidden and system files. /c
tells xcopy32 to continue if any errors occur
(which will happen - a share violation error will be reported when
trying to copy the swap file, WIN386.SWP) /e causes
subdirectories, including empty ones, to be copied. /k causes
attributes to be copied intact.
Once complete, the new drive can be used as the boot drive.
Method Two: Specialized Utilities
There are various shareware utilities available to accomplish moving
Windows 95 to another hard drive:
TransX95: TransX95 is a file management program. One of its
features is a utility to transfer Windows 95 from
one hard drive to another. Try Randy Burgess's Windows 95 Resource
Page, under the Anti-Virus & File
Management section.
DiskMAGIC 95: This is a DOS-based utility that will transfer
Windows 95, Windows NT, OS/2, or UNIX
installations to another hard drive, even over parallel ports. A
demo is available at
http://www.execpc.com/~jluty.
Most of this information came from my Windows Conference,
specifically from posts by Dan Steinberg and
Prakash Thadani. Thanks!
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