Yeah I agree
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Yeah I agree
Just to be on the safe side, I disable anti-virus software and disable/remove any hard disk utilities when I've done the transfers. Other than that, it's been pretty straight-forward. :)
Good deal. I'll give it a shot tomorrow and see how it goes.
Throw all there data onto 1 or more CD's and then let them deal with it.
Crazy all of you. If you are just upgrading the hard drive.. you can put both drives (OLD and NEW) into a system with a current bios and a good version of Win98 and after fdisking and formatting the new drive type:
xcopy D:\ E:\ /s /e /c /h /k /r /y
insert the correct drive letters for Source and Destination (I used D: and E :) but this will copy the ENTIRE contents. You will need a boot floppy with Fdisk on it. After installing the larger drive into the system you will boot to A: and run Fdisk and set the partition to active. Then reboot with no floppy and Voila!
If you are Upgrading from any version of Windows OTHER than Win95a... to any other Win9x.. you can do the same thing. Then copy the whole Win98 dir off the CD into a directory on the new drive like \win98se.lod
After installing the drive into the system, and setting the partition to active... boot to a dos prompt. Then search for all winstances of WIN.COM like this:
dir win.c* /s
You must delete or RENAME all of the WIN.COM files. Then change to the dir you put your NEW os into like C:\win98se.lod and run setup and go to town. The new windows (most commonly win98SE) will install right over any older version.. No upgrade version needed... and all of your program settings will be preserved.
The reason that this doesnt work when going from Win95a to a bigger HD / New os.. is that Win95s can't recognize partitions bigger than 2mb. In these cases you need to upgrade the system to Win95B at least first... then move the data to the newer drive... or just backup up data and bite the bullet and reintall all your apps after you set up Windows.
Good luck.