I quote from this page--never mind about 3rd party cloning software. Don't EVEN need it. I have used this simple, free, awesome command from inside of Windows 95, 98, and ME without a hitch. Copied every single thing every time that I've tried it. These instructions seem pretty straightforward, but if you have questions, please ask. I don't do anything too too technical, but have run across some little gems like this that make it simple for even the non-techno-scholarly types like me. I'll throw in this common sense reminder, anyway, tho. Always put any information you'd hate to lose onto floppies, zips, cdr or rw, whether you're getting ready to make changes to the system or not. Everyone knows that, but how many of us really do it. You only have to lose 3 years of quicken ONCE to learn...
Anyway, good luck! It's been an incredible find for me. Hope it helps.
http://www.infinisource.com/features/copy-hd.html
If you would like to clone your hard drive using the DOS command Xcopy, be sure the drive you've installed in the slave position as Drive D, has a primary partition and is formatted.
You will need to format a used drive by opening My Computer, right click Drive D, select Format > Full and select Display summary and Copy System Files.
When your drive to be copied to is formatted, close all open programs and go to Start > Run type XCOPY C:\*.* D:\ /c/h/e/k/r, click OK.
A DOS window will open to your desktop and when you are queried about overwriting, simply answer "yes" each time.
You are instructing the computer to copy all the files (*.*) from your filled hard drive called C to the your newly formatted hard drive called D. While copying, your added instructions (/c/h/e/k/r), that are called "switches", instruct the computer to copy attributes, read-only files, all sub-directories, hidden files, system files and to ignore errors.
When you've finished copying your drive over to a new drive, shut down your system. Place your newly created drive in the C position, re-position the driver jumpers to "master". You can now opt to store your source drive, re-use it elsewhere, or change the jumpers to the "slave" position, format it and install it as your new, fresh drive D to add extra hard drive space to your computer system.
A limitation to the DOS Xcopy command is that it can only copy over a single partitioned area from your source drive at a time.
If you're in the market for a larger drive, copying over your system to the new drive can make your upgrade simple and easy.
Anyway, good luck! It's been an incredible find for me. Hope it helps.
http://www.infinisource.com/features/copy-hd.html
If you would like to clone your hard drive using the DOS command Xcopy, be sure the drive you've installed in the slave position as Drive D, has a primary partition and is formatted.
You will need to format a used drive by opening My Computer, right click Drive D, select Format > Full and select Display summary and Copy System Files.
When your drive to be copied to is formatted, close all open programs and go to Start > Run type XCOPY C:\*.* D:\ /c/h/e/k/r, click OK.
A DOS window will open to your desktop and when you are queried about overwriting, simply answer "yes" each time.
You are instructing the computer to copy all the files (*.*) from your filled hard drive called C to the your newly formatted hard drive called D. While copying, your added instructions (/c/h/e/k/r), that are called "switches", instruct the computer to copy attributes, read-only files, all sub-directories, hidden files, system files and to ignore errors.
When you've finished copying your drive over to a new drive, shut down your system. Place your newly created drive in the C position, re-position the driver jumpers to "master". You can now opt to store your source drive, re-use it elsewhere, or change the jumpers to the "slave" position, format it and install it as your new, fresh drive D to add extra hard drive space to your computer system.
A limitation to the DOS Xcopy command is that it can only copy over a single partitioned area from your source drive at a time.
If you're in the market for a larger drive, copying over your system to the new drive can make your upgrade simple and easy.
