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From: Grinder on 3 Apr 2008 17:13
On Mar 30, 9:28 pm, dos-man <ChairS...(a)mail.com> wrote:
>> Well, my win 98 PC has crashed again. When I boot it just keeps
>> endlessly spinning the floppy drive. Tommorrow I have to bring the
>> monitor down from the attic and hook it up. Then I have to format the

powersupplycables wrote:
> You can use a HD splitter cable.
> Check this one:
> http://www.powersupplycables.com/shopping/pgm-more_information.php?id=29&=SID

And you can use Nicolaxx:
http://www.iamlost.com/features/nicolaxx/

...butt it has no relevance to your, or the OP's posting.


From: dos-man on 21 Apr 2008 03:14
On Apr 1, 8:42 am, Chip Thomas <spama...(a)gmail.net> wrote:
> DaveW wrote:
> > You either have to buy special backup software, or you can buy a PCI RAID
> > card and set up a RAID 1 array. This results in all data and programs being
> > simultaneously being written to both drives, resulting in a mirror image on
> > the two drives. Either way, there is no good FREE way to do what you want
> > to do.
>
> Not exactly correct. Disk Wizard from Seagate is free and will mirror
> one drive onto another. It will even compensate for different size drives.



Sorry, it took a long time for me to get back to this thread I
started. I've got a lot of different things going on at once. At any
rate, I downloaded Disk Wizard. With this I can hopefully get two
drives the same and not have to do any more reinstalls anymore. With
each reinstall I do as the years pass I've got more programs and more
drivers to install. It's getting to be a bit much.

Thank you to all of you for your suggestions.

dos-man
From: dos-man on 22 Apr 2008 02:05
On Apr 21, 2:14 am, dos-man <ChairS...(a)mail.com> wrote:
> On Apr 1, 8:42 am, Chip Thomas <spama...(a)gmail.net> wrote:
>
> > DaveW wrote:
> > > You either have to buy special backup software, or you can buy a PCI RAID
> > > card and set up a RAID 1 array. This results in all data and programs being
> > > simultaneously being written to both drives, resulting in a mirror image on
> > > the two drives. Either way, there is no good FREE way to do what you want
> > > to do.
>
> > Not exactly correct. Disk Wizard from Seagate is free and will mirror
> > one drive onto another. It will even compensate for different size drives.
>
> Sorry, it took a long time for me to get back to this thread I
> started. I've got a lot of different things going on at once. At any
> rate, I downloaded Disk Wizard. With this I can hopefully get two
> drives the same and not have to do any more reinstalls anymore. With
> each reinstall I do as the years pass I've got more programs and more
> drivers to install. It's getting to be a bit much.
>
> Thank you to all of you for your suggestions.
>
> dos-man

Well, I tried Disk Wizard. Apparently, Windows 98 is an unsupported
platform. The install failed.
Either that or I downloaded the wrong version or something.

At any rate, I was able to duplicate the hard drive using the win 98
backup utility (which I think someone suggested in this thread but I
can't find it.) It's quite shocking that it actually worked.

My 5 gig C: boot drive containing only the OS was backed up to a file
small enough to fit on a CD. I then put in a 20 gig maxtor as my
secondary D: drive and restored the backup to the D: drive. Then it
was just a matter of seeing if I could boot from the 20 gig drive or
not.

It worked!

If the 20 gigger ever craps out, I can always temporarily go back to
the old drive. I'm all set. I shouldn't have to do a complete system
reinstall for a very long time.

dos-man
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