It's interesting to hear the negative comments about Drive Copy.  I guess I'm lucky I couldn't find a copy to purchase when I did my drive swap a few weeks ago ;)

At any rate, I ultimately was successful in doing exactly what Jim Phillips wants to do using a shareware utility called HD95COPY.  It is a slick little DOS utility that does a sector by sector copy of your current Win 95 hard drive to another device.  Well, that's actually not 100% correct.  It copies it to a "backup" file.  You then use the same utility to do a "restore" of this file to your new hard drive.  But the bottom line is that with this utility I was able to swap my 1.2Gb drive for a 4.3Gb drive without losing any Win95 settings, configuration, etc.  Very fast, very easy, and it runs from DOS!

Note that HD95COPY only works with 16-bit FAT, but the same author has another utility called FAT32CP that works with the 32-bit FAT.  Both programs can be retrieved from his WWW page at:

    http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Lakes/8753/

Gary Dietz
Director of Administrative Computing
Walla Walla College
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>>> Joe Geiser <[log in to unmask]> 04/15 10:43 AM >>>
Jim Phillips writes before Stan Sieler...

> > PowerQuest's DriveCopy (which is supposed to be "the easiest =
>
> We also have had a bad experience with DriveCopy, and have not
> made it work successfully.
>

The problem is, that Win95 cannot just be copied from one drive to another,
with all of its applications, without a registry update for the hardware.
DriveCopy has never worked for anyone that I know of - and the only solution
is to do one - Install the OS again, then reinstall every application which
utilizes the registry (all 32-bit apps).

The problem is the registry.  When new hardware is introduced to replace
old, and it's not identical to what it was replaced with, Win95 chokes on
it.  Win98 will alleviate a good deal of this, but not all.

My suggestion would be to either install the new drive as a second drive
(Drive D:) and use it for applications - and use the smaller drive as the
boot drive and temp space.

Best,
Joe
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