Drive Image 5.0 guidance 1

[gargouille]

Probably is another appropriate forum, but I've seen similar discussions so here goes:

What I'm up to is that I have a perfectly tweaked spit and polish install of Win98 on a client computer that is suffering the last gasps of hard drive failure.
Drive Image has been in reserve on the shelf and it's time I got indoctrination with it and put it to good use. Just 1 of those not enough time issues that now will finally reach resolution.

What I've done is installed the software on the computer and am about to image to another partition on it (hoping it'll survive another boot sequence/run that long) and NOT hide it from the OS and then shut down...then change over to another hard drive and boot to the BIOS and make sure it's recognized and then boot with the recovery disk set from DI...and restore the image from the partition to the new hard drive.
I am sure, by the way, the machine will see the drive 'cause I hooked it up and booted and all went well.
I just now shut down and took it off the power/ribbon cabling.

Am I missing anything?

 

[apex1x]

Why did you decide to create that second partition for the image and not just copy the image directly over to the new hard drive?
If its about to die, writing a couple hundred megs can be that straw on the camel. ~Apex1x
Miller's Law:
You can't tell how deep a puddle is until you step into it.

 

[gargouille]

The drive I'm putting in is considerably smaller, and I'm partitioning it and will store that image (the 1st one) on the drive.
I wanted to use compression to reduce the size of the file and that's why I chose to image it (done deal, survived this far) instead of a disk to disk transfer.

 

[apex1x]

Sounds like you're right on.
Good luck with the rest.
~Apex1x
Miller's Law:
You can't tell how deep a puddle is until you step into it.

 

[gargouille]

Thanks, apex1x!
'Cept the DI boot diskettes didn't work...now I see I have to do a lot more stuff to 'em.
I'll just use a Win98 boot disk and then put the diskette set to work...
Always nervous when doing something for the 1st time...BUT at least I HAVE A PLAN! LOL

 

[roamer1]

You'll like DriveImage alot better from a testbench. Dump the guts out of the floppy into a folder on the testbench HDD boot to clean DOS and run it from there. Use one of those forty-two foot IDE ribbons to plug into the client drive in it's own box, blow the image to the testbench...yadayada...you know the rest. Way quicker, believe it or not... PQMagic the same way.

 

[gargouille]

Superb tip, roamer!
I can tell, by the way, that you're a Mason Williams fan!