Did you try clonezilla? On Mar 1, 2016 8:45 PM, "Denis Heidtmann" <denis.heidtm...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I am working with an old computer with custom hardware and SW than cannot > be regenerated. We want to clone the HD so that if the existing one fails > we have a chance of being able to continue using the system. The HD is 1G; > the OS is Windows 3.1; the computer is a compaq. > > A clone was attempted to a 20G HD, but it will not boot (I forgot the error > message, but it finally said not a system disk.) And at this point I do > not know what SW was used to do the cloning. > > My first guess is that the BIOS cannot handle the drive, even though the > cloning leaves only 1G available. Is this a likely explanation? My second > guess is that perhaps Compaq did something non-standard to prevent drives > other than theirs from being used. (They would not be the first nor the > last company to be SOBs.) > > I have searched for ideas, but the answers are so varied that I do not know > which ones to trust. > > Anybody here have suggestions? What cloning SW is suggested? > > (If this question is unacceptable for a Linux group, I can move it to > Talk.) > > -Thanks, > -Denis > _______________________________________________ > PLUG mailing list > PLUG@lists.pdxlinux.org > http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug > _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list PLUG@lists.pdxlinux.org http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug