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Date:	Mon, 20 Aug 2001 15:24:08 PDT
From:	"mrakijas" <mrakijas@oco.net >
Reply-To:	scoug-help@scoug.com
To:	<scoug-help@scoug.com >
Subject:	SCOUG-Help: Ongoing saga

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Harry,

The funny thing is that I've done this many times. I've done it
on machines on which I was upgrading the hard drive. I'd add the
new drive as an IDE slave to the normally booted master, xcopy and
go. Removing the old drive and configuring the new as master was
enough to have made the upgrade a breeze. I've also upgraded many
motherboards underneath existing systems. These include changes
in processors, chipsets and video cards. Never did I have to do
more than Alt-F1 to set back to VGA for a new video driver
install. Sometimes, I wouldn't have to even do the SYSINSTX step.

Thanks for the suggestion, though. I'll keep it in the back
pocket as a last resort but I've had enough success in doing this
in the past that I'm not yet ready to give up. So keep the
suggestions coming. In fact, wasn't there a problem with OS2DASD
at one point or another? Does anyone recall?

-Rocky
---------- Original Message ----------------------------------
From: Harry Chris Motin
Reply-To: scoug-help@scoug.com
Date: Mon, 20 Aug 2001 05:23:49 PDT

>Rocky,
>
>I've had similar problems in the past and I've never been able to

use
>xcopy (with all the right switches) to copy files to a hard drive

and
>then make it bootable as the end result. It has never worked for

me and
>I am not sure why (what files did not get copied, etc).

...

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