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Booting W98 from floppy or CD with long filename support
I need to backup a HDD to CD so that I can reformat it, and then put the
files back. After the reformat I could boot from floppy and copy the files back to the HD, but that would corrupt the installation due to the lack of long filename support. Anyone know of a way to boot with long filename support? Headless -- Email and usenet filter list: http://www.headless.dna.ie/usenet.htm |
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Headless wrote in message news I need to backup a HDD to CD so that I can reformat it, and then put the files back. After the reformat I could boot from floppy and copy the files back to the HD, You could, but that wont necessarily make it bootable. but that would corrupt the installation due to the lack of long filename support. Anyone know of a way to boot with long filename support? Any real backup or imaging app has long file name support. |
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Headless wrote in
news I need to backup a HDD to CD so that I can reformat it, and then put the files back. After the reformat I could boot from floppy and copy the files back to the HD, but that would corrupt the installation due to the lack of long filename support. Anyone know of a way to boot with long filename support? Use PE Builder from http://www.nu2.nu/pebuilder/ and create a product very close to Windows PE. Windows PE allows you to boot a minimal Windows XP subsystem from a CD-R. You'll need a copy of Windows XP SP1 slipstreamed to make this. Works on NTFS and FAT16/32 filesystems. DOSLFN at http://stealth.kirenet.com/~aleinss/files/doslfn.zip is a TSR that will give you long name support. This will only work on FAT16/32 file systems. Adam |
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