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Anyone have experience cloning a Windows 95 HDD using Ghost 2003?

I need to clone a hard drive running Windows 95. This is a business computer and it has irreplacable software running on 95. I need more space so I tried using ghost to do the job. I have tried disk to disk copy and making a bootable cd to restore the image. Neither process works. The computer boots and gives error about no operating system. I have tested the drive in multiple computers and it is ok. The BIOS detects it no problem. I have lots of experience with ghost on 98/ME/2K/XP. Never seen this before. Any thoughts?

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1. just try cloning the hdd by having them both in the same box and running ghost. then it's a 1 step deal and less foulable. should make a direct copy thats usable. be sure the proper jumper is selected on the new drive when you install it to be the primary boot device (a common oversight)
2. I ran across this free app. Basically you boot from the disk with the new hard drive connected and clone it. Then replace the old one with the newer and larger clone.
3. disk copy may not copy the hidden files / folders, where as ghost will since it copies the entire partion, so if it worked on 98 then it should work on 95, just make sure the new disk is set as master, active partion and bootable, if you however clone to 2nd drive you have to modify the msdos.sys file to point where the valid installation of windows is, the msdos.sys is a hidden ,system file and will be located o nthe C boot drive ( or the first active partion in a system ), you can edit msdos.sys in textpad or in dos ( real dos not a dos box ) once the file attributes have been reset. then resave and it should boot fine