Hi,
we had a problem regarding hard drive upgrades recently. We used 3,5GB laptop hard drives on industrial computers in the past.
Now, the smallest available drives are 30GB laptop drives. In case of hard drive failure, we had the following problem with the larger drives: our original Ghost image files could be restored to the new, larger disk type, but the system would not boot. BIOS recognizes the larger drive, loads the boot sector from the drive, and then stalls. Windows 95 did not get loaded.
What we did was the following. We created a new clean Win95 installation on the 30GB hard drive, which booted perfectly.
We deleted every single file of that installation afterwards, except for IO.SYS, MSDOS.SYS and COMMAND.COM
We copied all files (except IO.SYS, MSDOS.SYS, COMMAND.COM) out of the old Ghost image (for the 3,5GB drives), using Ghost Explorer and onto the new 30GB hard drive.
That way the system started Windows 95 but reported a PC Anywhere problem.
After continuing (after pressing a key), the system boots up normally. Once in Windows, we uninstalled Pc Anywhere and the boot interruption was gone afterwards.
My question: does PC Anywhere make any changes in the IO.SYS, COMMAND.COM or MSDOS.SYS files?
Start Free Trial
