OT: Windows partition copy

[Roger Oberholtzer]

I don't know where these files are physically located in the partition.
And I am not sure how they are marked. I do not know if the FAT hidden
attribute is copied with a file when copied from Linux. Depends on the
Linux FAT driver.

I think a recovery install of WIN98 is going to be the solution. It is
what I expected. I just hope the various later security updates don't
make all this confused. I do not think so. I think it makes a new
'windows' directory.


On Sat, 2004-08-28 at 16:25, Alma J Wetzker wrote:

> Remember that Win98 is DOS.  There are two files that must be marked hidden, 
> system and read-only.  (*io.sys, *dos.sys)  These files must be the first two 
> files physically located in the partition's hard drive.  (That is where grub 
> turns control to on boot.)  I don't remember which one needs to be first.
> 
> DOS, which includes Win[95 98 ME], can be in any partition including an 
> extended partition.  The restriction is that there must not be another 
> partition that it can read before it in the partition table.  (i.e. I must be 
> on drive 'C:')
> 
> > 
> > If I make a boot floppy, maybe I can get a Windows boot off the
> > partition and do something.
> 
> The floppy should work but that will not let you make the partition bootable. 
>   The DOS and IO files need to be the first two files on the partition.  If 
> you already have files in that position, you need to get rid of them and find 
> some way (sys c: | format c: /s) to put those files where they are needed.
> 
> If you did a dd or something similar and all the files are there, check 
> "attrib *.sys" to make sure the files are hidden, system and read-only.  If 
> any one of those flags is missing, the system will not boot.
> > 
> > BTW, dd was not an option as I needed to resize the partition and do not
> > fully trust resizing. I did that on a SUSE9.0 install to a EXT
> > partition. It happily made one smaller during install (not the one it
> > was installing to), but it did not bother to move the files from the
> > part that was no longer to be in the partition. It was an experiment to
> > see how it worked. I won't be doing that with a needed partition any
> > time soon!
> > 
> > On Fri, 2004-08-27 at 21:07, Mike Reinehr wrote:
> > 
> >>Another question is 'how did you move it?' I can't remember the details, but I 
> >>seem to remember that a MS formated partition has something specific written 
> >>to the first block or two of a partition. You should have been ok if you dd'd 
> >>it, but if you tar'ed then all bets are off.
> >>
> >>mike
> >>
> >>On Friday 27 August 2004 01:17 pm, Net Llama! wrote:
> >>
> >>>On Fri, 27 Aug 2004, Michael Hipp wrote:
> >>>
> >>>>Roger Oberholtzer wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>>>I had no choice. I had to keep a Windows 98 partition. But I moved it
> >>>>>elsewhere on the disk. Now, GRUB will not boot into that partition.
> >>>>
> >>>>Someone can correct me if I'm wrong but I think you're out of luck. The
> >>>>DOS-kernel Windows (9x/ME) won't boot from anywhere but a primary
> >>>>partition and I'm not sure they will actually boot from any but the
> >>>>first partition. Make sure the partition is 'active' and not 'hidden' by
> >>>>using a partitioning tool.
> >>>
> >>>I don't think it has to be the first partition, but it definitely has to
> >>>be a primary parition on the first boot device.
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>>The NT-Kernel Windows (NT/2k/XP) are more forgiving about where you
> >>>>locate them.
> >>>>
> >>>>Why did you move it? It would never occur to me to attempt to move a
> >>>>DOS/Win9x partion. The only safe place for such a thing is hda1 (C:).
> >>>
> >>>or /dev/null  ;)
> 
> Good luck!
> 
>      -- Alma
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