boot into linux then as root do dd if=/dev/hda1 of=/dev/hdb1 this will do a bit by bit copy of your windows partition to a partition on the second drive (even the swap file). then you should be able to configure grub to recognize that win98 is on /dev/hdb1. On Fri, 31 Aug 2001, michael norman wrote:
Hi
I have two hard drives, the better of which is the first (hda1). I dual boot w98 and SuSE 7.2. Because of the way that w98 insists on being on the first drive I have it installed as hda1 and SuSE on the rest of the first drive. At the moment I use the second (hdb) older slower drive as a spare mainly for backups and test installs. I want to put w98 on that drive and I understand that if I use grub rather than lilo I can then set grub to fool w98 into thinking that is on the first drive. Rather than going through another painful w98 install I'd like to just move the present w98 install to that drive. Is there a linux utility that I can use to do this ? That is create an image of the win98 install, move it to hdb1 and then set up grub to boot it so I can check that it works before I remove it from hda1 and reorganise that drive ?
The w98 partition is about 4.0 gigs and the second drive is 6.4 gigs.
Thanks for any pointers anyone can offer.
Mike
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