From: m...@aloha.com (John Shalamskas) Subject: Re: Win 95 and Internet Date: 1995/09/22 Message-ID: <43tdfv$4qq@news.aloha.com>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 110506468 references: <43kvab$ddb@news.aloha.com> organization: MLH Consulting newsgroups: flex.Internet,comp.os.ms-windows.win95.setup m...@aloha.com (John Shalamskas) wrote: >I am working on an article to place in my home page - please hold off >on emailing me unless you are desperate. The article should be ready >in a few days, maybe sooner - I will try to get it done today! Naturally, something had to go wrong :-(. I decided to buy a new hard drive since I was running out of space on the fast-wide SCSI drive. Since the Western Digital Caviar 1.6 Gig IDE drive is so cheap, I decided to get one and use it on the built-in PCI controller of my machine (I paid for it, why not use it for mass storage!) Of course, it has become a problem to transfer Win95 to the new drive. Xcopy32 does not copy the hundreds of hidden, system, read-only files. I guess I'll be making a full backup of Win95, installing the new drive, installing Win95, and then restoring from the backup. Probably will have to edit the registry afterward so it detects the controller after the restore (the registry I am using now thinks that there is no IDE drive.) Anyone got other ideas? Besides a complete reinstall, of course -- I want to learn how to save the configuration for the next person that has this problem. John "Bleeding Edge" Shalamskas John Shalamskas http://www.aloha.com/~mlh m...@aloha.com dba MLH Consulting phone (808) 521-3141 1620 Keeaumoku St #701 pager 288-2799 Honolulu, HI 96822 "Lucky I live Hawaii!" FAX/Data 534-0579
From: brian_t...@mindlink.bc.ca (Brian Thurston) Subject: Re: Win 95 and Internet Date: 1995/09/23 Message-ID: <440c1h$dsr@fountain.mindlink.net>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 110632622 references: <43kvab$ddb@news.aloha.com> <43tdfv$4qq@news.aloha.com> organization: MIND LINK! - British Columbia, Canada newsgroups: flex.Internet,comp.os.ms-windows.win95.setup m...@aloha.com (John Shalamskas) wrote: >m...@aloha.com (John Shalamskas) wrote: >>I am working on an article to place in my home page - please hold off >>on emailing me unless you are desperate. The article should be ready >>in a few days, maybe sooner - I will try to get it done today! >Naturally, something had to go wrong :-(. I decided to buy a new >hard drive since I was running out of space on the fast-wide SCSI >drive. Since the Western Digital Caviar 1.6 Gig IDE drive is so >cheap, I decided to get one and use it on the built-in PCI controller >of my machine (I paid for it, why not use it for mass storage!) >Of course, it has become a problem to transfer Win95 to the new drive. >Xcopy32 does not copy the hundreds of hidden, system, read-only files. >I guess I'll be making a full backup of Win95, installing the new >drive, installing Win95, and then restoring from the backup. Probably >will have to edit the registry afterward so it detects the controller >after the restore (the registry I am using now thinks that there is no >IDE drive.) >Anyone got other ideas? Besides a complete reinstall, of course -- I >want to learn how to save the configuration for the next person that >has this problem. >John "Bleeding Edge" Shalamskas I have an old 4 megabyte 386DX33 I keep around for just these kind of events (as well as print server, fax server, mail server etc). Get a couple of ethernet cards and set up a little network. Stick the new 1.6 gig in the 386 (which already has WIN3.11 running off a 80 meg HD) - remember to set you small resident HD as primary and your new 1.6 as secondary. fdisk and format the 1.6 (no sys files are needed) than go into WIN3.11 (which is already talking to your main computer through the NICs with the help of NetBEUI - you can even use 10baseT cards without a concentrator is you wire the send pair to the receive pair) and copy the entire contents of you fast-wide onto your new HD. If you don't have the required hardware - ask a friend. NE2000 compatible cards are cheap (less than $40) and have lots of uses (HAN - Home Area Networking). Hope that helps you out. Regards, Brian.