I have an "old" computer running Win 89 SE that my son has used for several years. I have Drive Image 4.0 installed, and I have two hard drives on this machine. When I used to use the machine--approximately 3-years ago I would backup/copy everything from the "primary" 20-Gig hard (I only had about 3.5 gig of data on the primary drive) to the "secondary" 4-Gig hard drive. Since my son has used the PC I've not backed-up the hard drive.
Today Windows crashed, and Gateway told me that I must format the primary 20 gig hard drive.
I got out the Drive Image floppy back-up disks hoping to be able to boot the machine from the backup hard drive. However, when I put in the second of the two backup floppies into A-Drive a DOS prompt appeared, and I don't know what to type in at the prompt.
CAN ANYONE HELP ME WITH THIS ISSUE--USING THE DRIVE IMAGE BACKUP FLOPPIES, CAN I BOOT THE PC FROM THE 4-GIG (backup) DRIVE, FORMAT THE 20-GIG (primary) DRIVE, AND THEN COPY THE INFORMATION FROM THE 4-GIG [BACK] TO THE 20-GIG DRIVE AND "BE ON MY WAY?"
Chris Wright
Today Windows crashed, and Gateway told me that I must format the primary 20 gig hard drive.
I got out the Drive Image floppy back-up disks hoping to be able to boot the machine from the backup hard drive. However, when I put in the second of the two backup floppies into A-Drive a DOS prompt appeared, and I don't know what to type in at the prompt.
CAN ANYONE HELP ME WITH THIS ISSUE--USING THE DRIVE IMAGE BACKUP FLOPPIES, CAN I BOOT THE PC FROM THE 4-GIG (backup) DRIVE, FORMAT THE 20-GIG (primary) DRIVE, AND THEN COPY THE INFORMATION FROM THE 4-GIG [BACK] TO THE 20-GIG DRIVE AND "BE ON MY WAY?"
Chris Wright