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Re: Backup/Restore of DOS/Win95 partition under Linux

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Craig Hoffman)
Sat Nov 23 17:56:56 1996

Date: Sat, 23 Nov 1996 17:52:56 -0500 (EST)
From: Craig Hoffman <infinity@gdi.net>
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	The utility for moving a win95 partition to another drive is
called TransX95... It is a DOS util I believe...Never used it.



On Sat, 23 Nov 1996, Skull wrote:

> >I want to replace a 1 gb disk with a new 2.5 gb disk on my system.
> >I would like to move my DOS/Win95 partition to another disk (larger)
> >on my system.  Can I just tar up the /dosd partition and then do a
> >restore on the new disk.  Will the long names, etc. be O.K.?  Is
> >there anything else I need to do?
> no... everything will break... win95 does NOT like to be moved...
> you'll have to reinstall win95 on the new partition or find a utility
> that will copy it.. I've heard that such a program exists but have
> never seen it.
> 
> Darron
> 
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