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Re: Moving Windoze95 around your system...
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Ramon Gandia)
Fri Nov 20 15:09:58 1998
Date: Fri, 20 Nov 1998 11:08:05 -0900
From: Ramon Gandia <rfg@nook.net>
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I better jump in here.
If you are going to move Windows 95 from one partition to
another; be advised that neither Windows 95 nor DOS 6.22
nor DOS 7.0 have the programs/tools to do this.
Specifically, XCOPY will *not* do it. It gets 99% of it,
but misses a few tidbits which may crash your system. There
have been innumerable posts about this. You need to see
the official instructions on how to go about it. I think
that http://www.annoyances.org may have something in there.
Whatever you do, be sure you don't follow some dodo's set of
instructions -it probably is the wrong info. Get if from an
official site. Much of this info will pertain to copy from
drive to drive and it will not work within partitions on the
same drive, but you be the judge of that.
It is much easier to reinstall Windows 95 from scratch on a
new partition/drive, and just copy over your program data
files, like your excell or quicken data files (not the
programs).
If you use third party tools, there are some wonderful programs
that will do that in a jiffy with minimum hassle. Some go
from drive to drive; some go from drive to tape then back to
drive, etc.
A caveat.
Windows 95 will ONLY boot from the first bootable partition on
the primary master drive. It must be drive C:. It is possible
for DOS 6.22 or Win 3.1 to boot on D:. Not so with Win 95,
although some parts of it can certainly reside in other drives.
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