Ghosting an IDE and a SATA drive.
 

Just a quick question, can it be done.

The problem is I have a friend with an *extremely* custom win98 setup and a lot of that software is now unavailable as are the install disks. He has bought a brand new Dell 4700 with SATA drives.

If I where to ghost the machine (assuming its possible) would it boot up the drive (ie in the bios) or does it need 98 drivers, which arent available, same goes for NIC and video card. It needs to stay on 98 BTW !

Any help appreciated.

Stuey

Assuming Ghost can transfer the files to the SATA drive in a bootable format - you might be able to use existing drivers in a "degraded" state - e.g. low VGA resolution, then update to later drivers (search the web) to get better quality.

Try to do the transfer in a "repeatable method" until you get the one that works!

mb

If you boot into a DOS/Win9x boot disk and load Ghost it will clone a complete hard disk. The only issue is whether the new ATA drives need a low-level device driver to work in DOS.

AFAIK, it should work like IDE and just look for the MBR and local OS.

I would say the Ghost would work. When you boot 98, it will try loading all the device drivers when it detects the new hardware. Should just be a case of installing them for the new disk controller, video card, sound card, etc...

The ATA drive should certainly boot, but how it will load Windows 98 is a bit unknown.

Worth trying since you'll be working off a copy anyway. if it doesn't work, he's not lost anything.

Stefan