Question : Problem: Adding a new hard drive.

I want to add a second hard drive , configure this as the C-drive and make the old drive the D-drive.
What's the best way of going about this whislt making sure that all the correct parts of the operating system ( win95 ) and Internet software are copied across. ?
What things do I need to be aware of ?
Thanks

Answer : Problem: Adding a new hard drive.

About bogeys answer: if you shutdown to msdos mode you will loose all long file names.  Its better if you do it from a dos box while windows is running.
I think this is the way to go.  Its alot easier than reinstalling everything, I used this myself.
Sys D: just copies the msdos 7 boot files over.
xcopy copyies everything else over
Here is a complete answer:(bogey left out a few other important tips)
How to copy windows 95 to your new drive:

Install the new drive as a slave.  Set your old drive to master
and the new one to slave.

Boot win95, open a dos box, run FDISK, select drive 2, make a new
partition.

Exit dos box, reboot, now the drive will be recognized in Win95.

Open dos box, run the following commands:
FORMAT D:
c:\windows\command\XCOPY c:\ d:\ /i/e/c/r/h/k
sys D:

Everything is now copied to the new drive except the swap file.
Windows 95 will remake the swapfile automatically when you boot to
that drive.  Make sure you are in a windows95 dos box and not dos mode
when running these commands.  Otherwise you will loose your long file
names(xcopy calls xcopy32 to do this).

You will need a windows 95 emergency disk for this one. If you didn't
make one during installation, go to control panel->add/remove programs
and go to the startup disk tab.

Remove the old drive, make the new one Master or Stand-alone.

Boot with your Windows95 emergency disk in drive A: and launch
FDISK, make the partition active and reboot.

Your system should now boot to the new drive with no problems.  If
not you can always put the old drive back in.

Additional Tips:
If your bios doesn't support LBA and your drive is larger than 540meg
you need to take some additional steps to install disk manager type
software.  Or the better solution is to buy a hard drive controller
or motherboard with the updated bios.

Don't format your old drive until you are sure it worked.

Don't use the disk manager software if your bios supports LBA mode;
You don't need it and it will hurt your performance.

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