mirror95.txt
revised 961207 
 
How to mirror a Win95 harddrive to another hard drive. 
 
NOTE: This applies to drives that neither use Dynamic Drive Overlay 
OnTrack software. If any one drive uses such, it is a special case 
that applies specifically to which of the drives does contain the DDO 
OnTrack. Please call Gigagon Technical support, and request 
professional assistance. 
 
Before beginning, some things to note: if the destination drive that 
is to receive the mirror is beyond the 528Mb barrier, be sure the 
mainboard supports LBA.  
 
The original drive that is to be mirrored will be considered the 
SOURCE, and is usually the bootable C:\> drive. The destination drive 
that is to receive the mirror will be considered the DESTINATION, and 
is usually the D:\> drive. The DESTINATION can have multiple 
partitions as well. 
 
0. Unless the computer receiving the DESTINATION drive has an 
identical video card as the drive contained from the SOURCE, use the 
Display Properties Settings to Change Display Type to Standard VGA 
Display, 16colors, 640x480. Also, remove any internal devices from the 
Systems Device Manager that will not be present in the computer 
receiving the DESTINATION (ie. sound cards, internal modems, network 
adapters). 
 
1. Hook the DESTINATION drive up properly so that it is the Primary 
Master, boot with floppy. Fdisk the drive properly, and be sure the 
partition is set active. Format this drive from the bootable floppy, 
either DOS622 or Windows 4.0.950 will do, with the arguments: 
 
A:\> format /u c: 
 
2. Disconnect the drive, now hook up the drives to the computer 
properly as SOURCE as the primary master, and DESTINATION as any 
primary slave or secondary master/slave device. 
 
3. Let the SOURCE drive boot up into Windows95 GUI. 
 
4. Go into the MS-DOS Prompt, create this directory in the 
DESTINATION: 
 
D:\>md WINDOWS 
 
Continue as indicated: 
 
D:\>cd WINDOWS 
D:\WINDOWS>md FONTS 
 
Leave the MS-DOS Prompt session active. 
 
5. Using the Explorer, be sure the attribute 
[View][Options][View][Hidden files:][Show all files] is enabled, copy 
all the files from the SOURCE root directory structure, NOT INCLUDING 
'Recycled' and 'Windows', to the DESTINATION root directory. 
 
6. Continue with the Explorer, copy all the files from the SOURCE 
'Windows' directory structure, NOT INCLUDING 'Fonts' and 'Win386.swp', 
to the DESTINATION 'Windows' directory. 
 
7. Go back to the MS-DOS Prompt session, and: 
 
C:\>copy \windows\fonts\msifont.fon d:\windows\fonts 
C:\>sys d: 
D:\>md tempfont 
C:\WINDOWS\FONTS>copy . d:\tempfont 
 
Exit and close the MS-DOS Prompt session. 
 
8. Shut down the system. 
 
9. Place the freshly mirrored DESTINATION drive in the new computer. 
 
10. If the drive does not successfully boot to the Windows GUI, then 
the mirror was not a complete success. This will happen 20% of the 
time, we do not know why. Re-install Windows95 on this drive, all the 
Programs and Applications and environments will be restored. Else, the 
drive does successfully boot up to Windows95 GUI, go to the 
[Start][Settings][Control Panel][Fonts][File][Install New 
Font...][Folders] and select all the fonts found from \tempfont. Be 
sure 'Copy fonts to Fonts folder' is enabled, this will properly 
install all the .TTF and other files properly. You can then choose to 
delete the \tempfont directory after. 
 
11. Windows95 has been successfully mirrored from the SOURCE to 
DESTINATION. 
 
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