Help with copying a Windows98 partition?
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Date: 09/02/05
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Date: 2 Sep 2005 09:01:01 -0700
First, my questions:
1. Is there a way to do a surface scan and/or a low level
format on a FAT32 partition within Linux (preferably
within Knoppix)?
2. Is there something other than just copying the files
over and setting hda1 active to make a Windows98
partition bootable?
3. Is there anything in Linux (preferably Knoppix) which
can copy a FAT32 partition the way "Ghost" does it?
In the past, I've used Ghost to copy Windows 98 partitions
and it "just worked". But I no longer have access to
a (legitimate) copy of Ghost.
Thanks!
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Here's my story so far:
I'm upgrading a Windows 98 computer from a 13gig drive to
a 40gig drive, and installing Linux to boot. The new drive
is partitioned:
hda1 36gig FAT32
hda5 .5gig swap
hda6 3gig ext3 (Linux)
I have no problem with the Linux side, and I modified GRUB to
have a Windows entry. My problem is that I haven't been able
to copy over the original Windows 98 setup successfully!
First, I tried using the Debian installer partition tool. I
tried to copy over the 13gig drive over to hda1, and this
seemed to go smoothly. I also set hda1 to be the "bootable"
partition (set active).
However, when I actually installed Debian on hda6, the
installer did NOT detect any other operating system and
GRUB only had entries to boot up Linux. I wasn't too worried
at that point--I manually edited /boot/menu.lst to create a
Windows entry.
Unfortunately, this Windows chain boot didn't work quite
right. It would actually flash the Windows 98 boot screen
and then crap out. If I was fast with "F8", I could get to
the boot menu and could boot to DOS prompt, but not safe
mode. Going step-by-step, it would get through several steps
but crash at some point. So, I tried to run scadisk from the
DOS prompt and it ran into tons and tons of weird errors.
Okay, so at this point I figured that the disc copy went bad.
Note that I have no issues whatsoever with the Linux side--it
boots up just fine and I don't run into any disc errors so I
THINK the actual drive is okay. There may be some bad sectors
here and there, though. I don't know how to check for bad
sectors.
So--I decide to boot up Knoppix and reformat the Fat32 partition
with QTParted. No problem--although the "reformat" takes hardly
any time so I know it's not actually touching most of the
disc sectors. I couldn't find any option to do a low level
format or do a sector scan of the disk. I did have the option
to "set active" hda1.
I then decide to us a simple cp to copy over the files (cp
-vr /mnt/hdb1/* /mnt/hda1/). This seems to go through just
fine, with no complaints.
Now I try to reboot into Windows, but now the computer just
sits there doing nothing after the GRUB chainload. No Windows98
splash screen, no boot menu, nothing. It just sits there
doing nothing. Obviously I'm missing something. But what?
I have no idea.
Thanks, I appreciate any help/ideas!
-- Isaac Kuo
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