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RE: Moving Windoze95 around your system...
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Fred W. Noltie Jr.)
Fri Nov 20 11:05:15 1998
From: "Fred W. Noltie Jr." <criterion-consulting@usinternet.com>
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Date: Fri, 20 Nov 1998 10:06:44 -0600
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# I was wondering about 'moving' my win95 partition around in my system,
# if anyone already did that sort of thing, i would like to hear
# suggestions;-).
#
# my actual setup is as follows:
#
# hda: <hda1> --> windoze95 (version A == fat16 fs)
# hdb: <hdb1> --> linux root
# <hdb2> --> free
# <hdb3> --> linux swap
# <hdb4> --> linux home
#
# where all partitions are primary ones and LILO is installed in
# /dev/hda (MBR
# hda).
#
# My intention is to:
# a) change type FAT16 to hdb2 and format it as dos with <mkdosfs>
# b) under linux mounting both /dev/hda1 --> /mnt/tmp1 and /dev/hdb2 -->
# /mnt/tmp2
# c) "copying" all hda1 onto hdb2:
# for this: is to be preferred a 'cp -a' copy or a raw 'dd'
# one (w/ mounts)?
# d) rerunning lilo to update changes.
#
# Do you know if that would do the trick? Do you have any hint?
#
I may be wrong (it's been a while since I played with DOS...), but I don't
think this is going to be as easy as you might think -- if you can even do
it at all.
For starters, when you install DOS it will overwrite the MBR on /dev/hda, so
that will kill your lilo setup (have a rescue disk handy to fix it).
Second, your entire Win95 setup is built on the assumption that it is
installed on drive C:. If you move it, I can virtually guarantee you that
you will not be able to get Win95 to boot again. The entire registry is set
up to be looking for things...on C:.
I once moved a complete hard drive with NT installed from one box to
another, and NT barely survived the experience. Even this was non-trivial,
so moving the partition where you have an MS operating system installed is
not something that is likely to work well -- if at all.
Proceed at your own risk, and be ready to reinstall (because that is
probably what you will end up doing).
Good luck,
Fred
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