March 22, 200917 yr Great idea. For my next deployment of an internal main HDD to my old Inspiron laptops (in about 2 months) I will try to:....Which of the 2 tools would you recommend for changing the partition type to 0E? My gut feeling is that PTD works better on partitions used by Win98 than Paragon Partition Manager.....NONE of them. You are missing a point. As long as the CHS and LBA data are "balanced" there is no problem whatsoever with "converting" an existing CHS partition in it's corresponding LBA one and viceversa.Even if they are not, it should work allright with CHS->LBA (while it normally WON'T for LBA->CHS)All it takes is changing 1 (one) byte in the MBR. You might want to read the links I gave to dencorso here:http://www.msfn.org/board/index.php?showto...130689&st=8AND this seemingly unrelated one:http://www.911cd.net/forums//index.php?showtopic=21049jaclaz
March 22, 200917 yr All it takes is changing 1 (one) byte in the MBR. You might want to read the links...Oh me oh my, that looks involved. Any suggestion which byte to change with a disk editor? Or is it maybe easier just to continue cloning the internal HDD to another HDD in an internal drive bay, and forget about cloning to a USB drive?What about another method of cloning the internal laptop HDD, if I- insert the laptop drive into a USB enclosure, then- connect the USB enclosure to my modern desktop with a recent BIOS, then- clone the laptop HDD in USB enclosure#1 to a HDD in a 2nd USB enclosure (i.e. USB to USB), then- insert the cloned HDD into another InspironWill the cloned HDD, when inserted into another Inspiron, NOT have disk geometry errors when PartitionMagic is run?BTW, I have been using Acronis Migrate Easy 7 for disk cloning under Win98. Is that Ok, or any better suggestions? Edited March 22, 200917 yr by Multibooter
March 23, 200917 yr All it takes is changing 1 (one) byte in the MBR. You might want to read the links...Oh me oh my, that looks involved. Any suggestion which byte to change with a disk editor? Disk Editor? WHY?Use beeblebrox:http://students.cs.byu.edu/~codyb/ot PTEdit/Ptedit32Read the given links, particularly this one:http://www.boot-land.net/forums/?showtopic=2959Comeon , a MBR is not black magic , it's just a bunch of bytes (512 to be exact), of which you are interested in DATA: 4x16=64 of them and there are nice graphical tools to manage them. jaclaz
March 23, 200917 yr Thanks jaclaz, I'll give it a try during the next deployment of HDDs to my laptops.
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