What's the best way to move a bootable win98 partition?
I have 2 physical hard drives on my system, both of which have a bootable windows 98 partition.
The reasoning behind this was that my original w98 partition crashed while installing an MDP-130 tv-tuner, and rather than let the windows virus overwrite my MBR & make my serious OS un-reachable, I did a new install on another drive, -- so now when I want to watch TV I have to switch the cables on my hard-drives.
so now I'd like to clean out the w98 partition on my working hard-drive & do a bit-by-bit copy of the w98 partition on the play drive so that the current grub (which will boot a broken w98) will boot to (a copy of) the new installation.
I have the impression that a simple 'cp *' won't quite work. I'm thinking cpio but not sure how to go about it. -- also I seem to remember a better choice whose name I can't quite recall.
would windows backup&restore work?
is there a minimum number of critical win files that I need to keep & then copy all others from the working version? - like sys.ini & the registry files &c.?
any thoughts welcome.
thanks in advance.
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