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In article <341a82b4.8429551@news.demon.co.uk>, mark
<mark@martem.?.demon.co.uk> writes
<snip>
I've just bought a new hard disk and transferred Win 95 to it with no
problems.  Make sure you have a startup disk before you try this - I had
to use it at one point.

This is how I did it.

Firstly I put my new HD in as a slave to the existing one and booted up
using F8 to "Command Prompt Only".  I ran FDISK and set the drive up and
then rebooted into Win95 and formatted it.  Then I copied (still in
Win95) all the folders/files (including the root directory) on my old
hard disk over to the new one EXCEPT for the WINDOWS directory.  The
WINDOWS directory will copy OK except for one file - "Win386.swp".
Create a folder on the new drive called "Windows" and then go to the old
WINDOWS directory.  Select "Win386.swp" and go to EDIT->INVERT SELECTION
to select everything else but this file.  Copy the selected files over
to the new WINDOWS directory.
Reboot and go to "Command Prompt Only" again.  Type "SYS C: D:"
(Assuming C: is old drive, D: is new drive) to transfer the system
files.  Switch off, take out the old drive and put the new drive as the
Primary (remembering to alter any jumpers and the bios!).  Boot up with
your startup disk and once again go to "Command Prompt Only".  Run FDISK
and make the primary partition active on the new HD.  Then reboot!
Thats it - mine's been running for 2 weeks now and I've noticed no
differences at all - especially no errors!
>
>Why did I leave 3.11? (*sob*)

So you could learn how to fix computers when they stop working :)

HTH!
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Richard                                 Stafford, England        
                                        Richard@jellyfish.demon.co.uk
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