The 850MB drive on my Win95 PC is getting full, so I sprung for a 
2GB drive and installed it over the weekend.  I got a copy of 
PowerQuest's DriveCopy (which is supposed to be "the easiest 
way to copy your old drive to your new drive").  However, it 
doesn't work; that is, after installing the new drive and 
using DriveCopy to copy the contents of the old drive, the PC 
refuses to boot.  Reviewing the BOOTLOG.TXT file shows that 
the PC is hanging in the kernel init (last message "Initializing 
KERNEL").  PowerQuest's tech support has been less than helpful.

Okay, no big deal says I, I have a tape drive.  So, I backed up 
the old drive, reformatted the new drive, and restored the tape 
to the new drive.  However, now when I boot, I get a fatal VFAT 
error (something about VFAT is corrupt and can't be loaded).

Has anyone got any ideas on how to install a new drive in a 
PC?  Right now, I have the machine running on the old drive 
with the new drive as the slave, but I'd like to replace the 
old drive with the new drive.  And I don't want to have to 
re-install every piece of software I have.  I'd like to 
copy the old drive to the new drive either using a utility 
or with the tape drive.

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You know, this is one of the many reasons I hate PC's.  When we 
added a new drive to our HP3K 918, it was no big deal.  Just 
slip the drive in, add it to the config, and go.  We did a 
complete reload because we wanted to spread the files around, 
but that was an optional step, and we could have used a third 
party utility to spread the files around.

I keep asking myself, what would I have done if the old drive 
would have crashed?

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Jim Phillips                            Manager of Information Systems
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Phone: (330) 527-2124                   P. O. Box 285
  Fax: (330) 527-2123                   Garrettsville, Ohio  44231