restoring win95 system

[d1]

Is it possible to copy a win 95 installation to another drive, then restore from that drive to C: booting from a floppy? If so would be faster than rebuilding from CD ROM.

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D1

[Ghost_Hacker]

You would run into the 8.3 file name limit in DOS. It would copy the files and folders over but wouldn't copy over the long file names.

[old_kid]

Hi d1:

Maybe I was lucky but I have done this with WIN95 on a regular basis - I am talking 486 early Pentium days when it was not uncommon to come accross systems that had no CDROM or BIOS wouldn't pick up CDROM - and CDROMS were costly - and PnP was in it's infancy and unreliable at best etc etc

Entire WIN95 contents on a portable ZIP disk - used when BIOS had hard time picking up CDROM - or system had no CDROM - Slower install than from CDROM

Entire contents on a spare HD - would install as a slave or secondary master - faster install than CDROM - again when BIOS couldn't pick up or there was no CDROM

As a matter or routine - after WIN95 installation - would also copy entire contents WIN95 to C: drive as a backup - facilitated hardware installs, WIN refreshes etc - especially if no CDROM etc

Of course - this was on old sytems - can't imagine systems today with the above problems - but yes - at least from my personal experience - it can be done with WIN95



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[d1]

Thanks Old Kid.
I was thinking that I could put my entire c: drive into a self executing zip, and leave it on D, then if win95 went troublesome on C:, I could boot from a floppy, delete the contents of C: copy the self unzipper to C:, execute it and have a clean system.

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D1