Using linux to clone a Windows ME disk?

[Jeff Macdonald]

Hi,
I'm trying to upgrade my wife's laptop. She has a 10gig hd and I bought
her a 60gig to replace it. I also got to 2.5 -> 3.5 ide adapters. My
dual boot Win98 and Linux system sees the disks fine (I've removed my
disks). I created a Win ME boot disk following the instructions at
www.xxcopy.com (xcopy apparently can't copy long file names correctly,
it creates new ones).

So C drive is old disk
D drive is new disk

Problem 1.
Win ME Fdisk only creates a 8 gig partition (bios sees all 60).

Fine, I boot a Knoppix CD and use cfdisk to create a valid partition (I
select FAT32 (0B) - not FAT32 with LBA. While I'm at it I format the
disk using mkdosfs with -F 32 -n melissa.

Problem 2.
Back in Win ME using xxcopy - it complains about write errors after a
few hours of operation.

Problem 3.
Since formatting in Linux took about 30 secs (if even that), I decide to
use Win ME to format disk. It dies at the end stating something out a
write protect error!

I'm now testing the media by simply copying the C drive to D using
linux. I repartitioned the HD and formatted it with ext2. I mount the
old disk and I'm simply doing:

cd /mnt/hda1
cp -v -a * /mnt/hdb1 

After that I may try reformatting the new drive again - this time using
mkdosfs again and using linux again to do the copy. But I have doubts
that this would work since I don't know how to see the short file names
within linux.

Should I just give up and buy ghost?


-- 
Jeff Macdonald <jeff.macdonald at virtualbuilder.com>
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