Who cares ?
Can anyone point me to (or advise) how to
move WinME to a new drive I want to install?
There's a couple of good ways to do that.
The simplest is to use something like Ghost or Drive Image.
These arent free, but can be useful for more than just copying
the drive. Surprisingly cheap, particularly if you get SystemWorks
Pro 2003. Its important to get SystemWorks Pro, Ghost isnt
included in the base SystemWorks 2003.
There is also the free xxcopy. Its not
as easy to use, but does do a decent job.
http://www.xxcopy.com/xxcopy10.htm
You can also do a clean install of ME and the apps on the new
drive. There is something to be said for this approach, any Win9x
install can get into a considerable mess over time and a clean
install can work rather better. Much more work than using ghost tho.
Dont listen to the inevitable claims that you can use
xcopy. Thats not the same as xxcopy and xcopy has
a real problem with mismatched short and long file
names which can bite. Documented on the xxcopy site.
Most hard drive manufacturers do provide some way of
copying to the new drive, but they risk installing stuff like
bios overlays which have other undesirable downsides.
Can't afford a new OS right now and my
only alternative is a Win98 install (have CD)
Sounds like you dont have the ME CD. In that case
its better to use ghost than to go back to Win98.
or slave a new 40G with a full 10G drive on a PII 500 system.
Its generally better to have the new drive as the master/boot drive
just because it will generally be noticeably quicker than the old drive.
So use ghost if you have the cash for that, or xxcopy if you dont.
