Author Topic: hd to hd file os /file swap ??? (Read 336 times)

Roscoroo · « **on:** January 11, 2004, 03:54:34 PM »

Ok ive done this to win 95 and 98 se befor by formating the new hard drive then using the dos command

xcopy c:\*.*d:\/s/e/r/c/h/k/y

my friend has win ME (yes i know yuk ME) and is replacing his 20gig with an 80 gig , Can this command be used to do a full drive contents transfer in ME ???

or can anyone suggest a better way to do this ? (my friend isnt very comp litterate when it comes to this stuff so ive got to try to keep it simple for him . Thx

P.s ive already sent him a boot disc and he has the cd that comes with the new maxtor 80gig hd .

zmeg · « **Reply #1 on:** January 11, 2004, 04:00:07 PM »

If he's booting off a se startup disc he's not using me, just copying it. Should be no problem. Also many new hd's come with a boot disc for that purpose.

Roscoroo · « **Reply #2 on:** January 11, 2004, 05:10:44 PM »

i better clarify here he needs to swap the Operating system to the new hd from the old . with out doing a reload

Ghosth · « **Reply #3 on:** January 11, 2004, 05:50:09 PM »

Is he useing a WD hd?
Get a copy of thier utilitys, has a very nice drive copy that will completly copy old to new.

bloom25 · « **Reply #4 on:** January 11, 2004, 08:33:42 PM »

Norton Ghost or Powerquest Drive Image can also do this for you if you have any recent copies of either of these around. (Older versions of Ghost had an 8GB limit on partition size.)

I believe xcopy should work as well. About the only thing I can think of is that a long time ago xcopy did not properly understand long filenames (those over 8 characters) and would rename files longer than that with a ~1 added to the end. That's probably no longer an issue though I would think with the Windows 98 version of DOS (or newer).