On Friday 31 August 2001 02:29 pm, 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.
You should be able to just use the Windows startup disk to do this. Boot to the command line prompt and then do an: XCOPY C: ?: /h/o/t/s/e/r/v where ?: is the new disk mode letter. (I assume XCOPY will be available on the startup disk) Then do a: SYS ?: and you should be set to go. Linux dd would probably also work but I have done the above within the last month. I would verify first that it will truely run from a second drive... I have never heard that. -- +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ + Bruce S. Marshall bmarsh@bmarsh.com Bellaire, MI 08/31/01 13:40 + +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ "Keep America Beautiful.... emigrate."