File transfer stage 1

[ffutures]

OK - it turns out that Maxstor (who made my 20gb drive) have a utility for transferring the operating system etc. on their web site, which handled the first step fairly easily - Allegedly there's a program that'll let my Windows 98 machine read (but not write) NTSF disks, which will handle the second. If not I have a USB drive enclosure kit on order, which ought to take care of things. Fun fun fun...

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transferring ntfs filessystenms..

[pengshui-master.livejournal.com]

The simplest way to so this is probably drivecopy or similiar, however Robocopy which is in microsoft's windox XP resource kit does the trick quite well.

The only problem is you can transfer open files, so you can't transfer the 'active' windows directory. But you can use robocopy from bartspe (you'll have to google to find it ) which then allows you to do c: drive upgrades on ntfs machines.

(You'll need to use the recovery console afterwards on the new drive to run fixboot, fixmbr to make the copy bootable. )

Re: transferring ntfs filessystenms..

[ffutures.livejournal.com]

I've actually got the hard part done - I've got Windows 98 transferred to another drive without having to do a full install etc.

I'm not quite sure that what you're suggesting here is really relevant to what I now need to do, which is simply get a few files off a hard disk formatted as ntfs then reformat it as Fat32 and bung it in a Windows 98 machine.

Re: transferring ntfs filessystenms..

[pengshui-master.livejournal.com]

Um. I wan't quite sure what you were trying to do It wasn't clear to me where the ntfs drive fitted into the scheme of things. However since there isn't a windows system on it you want to recover the complicated bits don't apply, robocopy is still the easiest way to copy large numbers of files on a windows machine. It sorta like xcopy if you've used that but more robust (hence the name).

Basically to do that job I'd do it in one of two ways either use robocopy and BartsPE, or probably more linux, cp -ar on live linux . I use robocopy if the destination filesystem is NTFS as windows obviously has better ntfs write support than linux.

BartsPE has the advantage that it's a live winXP system which means it suports everything windows does, the downside with bartsPE is that it is windows.

Either way if you're copying off ntfs onto FAT32 you need to make suere done of the files you are interested in are greater than 2GB as that is the max filesize under FAT32.

Re: transferring ntfs filessystenms..

[ffutures.livejournal.com]

What I'm probably going to do now I have a bigger second hard disk in my XP box is transfer the files from the old drive, using an external USB box for that, then put the drive into the Windows 98 box and reformat it from scratch, so the big files won't be going anywhere near a FAT32 drive.