Well, When I worked with Win9x I used to xcopy the system to another disk or partition making sure I told it to copy empty subdirectories, and I had view hidden files turned on. I installed the new disk as a second disk, did the copy and then I would take the new disk and put it place of the old drive and boot. The dd or tar commands might also work here (dd or tar to another device or partition). Collins Richey wrote:
> Is there an easy way to backup a windows partition then restore it later > without gimping anything that windows requires? > > I have a small hda (hda1 is a win98 partition, the rest is a swap and a > linux > partition). My active linux systems are on hdb. > > I want to retain the win98 stuff (rest of hda is not needed) then replace > hda with a much larger disk, restore the win98 stuff, redo grub, etc. > > Booting without hda is no problem, since I have a grub boot disk. > > I just want to avoid the pain of reinstalling win98 (mucho yucky, worse > than configuring sendmail). > -- Brett I. Holcomb [EMAIL PROTECTED] AKA Grunt <>< Registered Linux User #188143 Remove R777 to email _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc -> http://smtp.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
