Hard Drive Install

[menerves]

I want to install win98 from the hard drive b/c when I attach the drive to another system it will boot from the orginial install computer but will not boot from a different system without a CD drive. Suggestions?

 

[Karl Blessing]

Win98 should be reinstalled anyways if you move it to a different computer, because windows system is wraped around the fact that its still using the same system device of the machine it was originally installed on. also I assume the boot record was on the other harddrive(if yer using 2) and win98 was on the one you mentioned.<br><br> <p>Karl<br><a href=mailto:kb244@kb244.8m.com>kb244@kb244.8m.com</a><br><a href=

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[dcenglish]

Heres something I picked up from a good friend called Lawhead. I used it to make two bootable harddrives one for back up purposes. It works perfect. Its much cheaper but a bit slower good luck!<br><br><br>1) Attach your second HD.&nbsp;&nbsp;It won't matter if it's Primary<br>&nbsp;Slave or Secondary Master/Slave.<br>2) Make sure the second HD is FDisk'd and ready to accept formating.&nbsp;&nbsp;(If it is already formated, you can skip this step)<br>3) Boot into Win95/98<br>4) Enter Windows Explorer and right-click and format drive D: (assuming D: is your target drive). Skip this step if it's formated.<br>5)&nbsp;&nbsp;**Verify that the folder options are set to &quot;Show all Files&quot;<br>6) Create a folder called D:\WINDOWS.<br>7) Select all files and folders in C:\WINDOWS EXCEPT WIN386.SWP and copy them over to D:\WINDOWS <br>8) Run the Command prompt, execute SYS D:, and exit the DOS session.<br>9) In Windows Explorer, click on the ROOT of C: and select all files and folders EXCEPT:&nbsp;&nbsp;C:\WINDOWS, COMMAND.COM, IO.SYS, DRVSPACE.BIN and copy them to the ROOT of D:.&nbsp;&nbsp;When prompted to overwrite MSDOS.SYS, select OK/YES.<br>10) After everything is copied over to D:, down the system and reconfigure the backup drive as Primary Master.<br>11)&nbsp;&nbsp;Boot the computer with a bootable floppy that contains FDISK.<br>12)&nbsp;&nbsp;Run FDISK and set the backup drive's primary boot partition to &quot;Active&quot; if it isn't already.<br>13)&nbsp;&nbsp;Reboot the system without the floppy, you should now have a full bootable backup of your original drive.<br><br>14) I would suggest you purchase Ghost or Drive Image.&nbsp;&nbsp;It's sooo much easier!<br><br>Good luck!<br><br>