![]() Format the new partition using the /S parameter. You install the new drive as a 2nd drive. I am pulling on some very old brain cells and cannot test at the moment but. BUT, with Windows 95, you can actually copy the disk from one disk to another using xcopy. ![]() Sites are: Opens a new window and Opens a new window Puppy had a Cloning tool called Puppy Universal dd which helps prevent mistakes with the dd command. There are plenty of instructions on how to use Clonezilla such as Opens a new window NB Using the dd command is risky in that you can easily clone the blank disk to the original and destroy the data! As mentioned it is better to have a larger capacity on the replacement. So it would be easy to plug both the original HD and the new one into the motherboard and either boot the motherboard using Clonezilla or Puppy Linux from a CD/DVD or a USB stick. I have some old XP vintage motherboards with both SATA and IDE sockets and I could get 500 MB of RAM if I wanted. Of course if you have more than 4 GB of data on the original that can't be done. If it were me, I would use a 16 GB card or shrink the partitions on the 8 GB to 4 GB. Of course the machine manufactorer says that machine is too old and is better to buy 1 new for 200.000€ :-((Ĭloning a HD to a smaller sized HD is not recommended. I decided to try with an adapter with a CF 4 GB card and a copy with dd command on Unix (don know more a friend of mine did it) but still the same error I asked for old software version but no positive answer. I also tried EaseUS but the same result EaseUS support told me that the system is to old and is not supported. ![]() I tried again at the end of 2019 but I failed cause the bios splash screen at startup give me error "invalid system disk replace and press any key to continue" ![]() In 2017 I did this operation succsessfully with 2 of these 4 systems with Aoemi backupper. I have to clone the full disk to a newer one cause HDDs are almost 20 years old and are in terrible health conditions. The upgrade to a newer OS is not an option. Win95 start a dedicated software for the machine. I have 4 industrial machines that runs WIN95 on some obsolete IDE HDD max 8 GB in some partitions. ![]()
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