From: Adam Quantrill (aquantrill_at_scigen.co.uk)
Date: Thu Apr 06 2000 - 06:02:09 EDT
I did a similar thing using Linux to dd the partitions. However the new W95 copy wouldn't boot until I had done a SYS C: from a different W95 partition under DOS.
- Adam
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Subject: RE: using emergency CD installation on a new HD
Author: MIME:"Michael Geary" <Mike_at_Geary.com> at INTERNET
Date: 4/5/00 10:57 PM
Mike G to Mike G: <g>
It sounds like James' solution ought to take care of it for you. In case it doesn't, here's another approach that will work. Use the restore CD to refresh the original 6.4Gb drive. Then use Partition Magic, Drive Copy, Drive Image, or Ghost to copy the fresh 2Gb C: partition from the 6.4Gb drive to the new 18Gb drive.
You will need the Ultraslimbay 2nd HDD Adapter to do this, but now that you have two hard drives, that's a part you want to have anyway.
You can get Ghost from www.ghost.com, or any of the other three products I mentioned from www.powerquest.com. There is a 15-day free trial version of the Corporate edition of Ghost; don't know about free trials on the PowerQuest products.
-Mike
> I went ahead and bought an 18G Toshiba HDD for my TP600E. >
> I would like to do a clean install of the original (Win98) software from > the emergency disk rather than a drive copy -- my old HDD has
> lots of junk,
> including an aborted install of NT4 that I don't wish to keep. >
> My idea was to use the emergency CDROM to reinstall everything (Win98 plus > TP specific goodies), then get updated TP drivers, re-install my apps, and > then move over the (relatively small amount) of personal data that I
> have already copied onto my desktop machine. >
> BUT ... when I insert the recovery CD, it starts up then flashes > a complaint
> of "invalid drive specification" (or something similar -- it > disappears too
> quickly to be sure), and dumps me at the A: prompt. >
> Any ideas what Ive done wrong? Does the emergency CD assume I'm using the > orginal 6Gig HDD?
>
> For "fun" I went ahead and did a small Linux installation and got it all > working fine, so the drive seems OK.
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