On Sun, 9 Mar 2014 20:13:09 -0500, "BillW50" wrote:


Actually if the original is booted with the clone drive (even before it
is cloned) it is now marked by the original XP (NT really). Now when you
clone it under the original OS, all of the original information is also
now on the clone, even knowledge of this cloned drive. So it is too late
to disconnect and reboot. The problem is already there. I have seen this
more times than I care to recall. Win98 FDISK's bug is an easy way to
fix it.

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To let everyone know what happened. After taking a break from working
on this, which was driving me batty, I tried to download Macrium, which
Paul suggested. Being booted and online under Win98, it would not let
me access the thing. I did some sort of work-around on the site, and
faced a 180meg file. Way too big for my dialup connection. (I do
question why a program to simply copy a partition needs to be that big).

Anyhow, after downloading several #$%^& demos, and two programs from
"Runtime software" , that isnisted I need VSSVC.EXE running in task
manager (which WAS running), I deleted all that crap, and found XXCLone.
It was a small download of about 4 megs, and worked perfectly. I had to
run two operations. One copied all fiels on the partition to the new
drive, the second one installed the boot files.

I now have a duplicate of the original 10g hard drive, on a larger
drive, and it boots just fine. Since then, I installed SP3. I now have
a good working computer with XP SP3. The bad thing, is that my whole
intention was to setup this XP machine to mostly be used for the
internet, because there are no browsers that work properly in Win98
anymore. The bad news is that no matter what I have tried, I can not
get a usable connection to the internet via dialup. I can connect at
32k to 39k, (slightly slower than my usual connection using Win98, which
generally ranges from 38k to 48k). But when connected via XP,
regardless of speed, I can not transfer data. For example, I had to
wait 12 minutes to just open a google home page.

I did check on many of the things that Paul recommended in another
thread. Much of this became far too complicated and confusing for me to
understand. No matter what, I cant connect properly. I'm at a total
loss what to do from here.......
My only thought is to network the XP machine to the W98 one, and uxe the
connection from the W98 machinme on the XP one. (I think that will
work). But I need to buy a newtork card for the W98 machine.

Otherwise, I'm clueless how to make the modem work properly. You'd
think someone would make some software that would set this up correctly.
Doing it manually, with all those init strings and settings seems to
require a 4 year college degree to understand.

In the end, I have a nice, but older computer, which seems to work well,
but it's worthless for my original intention of using it for the
internet. And since a high speed connection is not possible here I live
(at least not affordable, which would cost $50 a month and up), I guess
I'm stuck with using Win98, and fighting with the horrid browsers. The
funny thing, is that this morning I hit the ultimate speed on this W98
machine. I was downloading videos from youtube at a combined speed of
7.4kb per second. That's the fastest I haev ever downloaded on dialup.
My connection was 48K at the time.

Why I cant do anything online, with XP which is the same experience I
got from Win2000, and trying both an internal and a serial external
modem, is beyond me. Either way, I'm a a total loss where to proceed
from here. All I know is that I have a good running XP machine which
does nothing more than my Win98 machine, except allows me to use some
newer software, and dont ask me to install drivers for everything I plug
into a USB port. So, about the only thing I gained is the ability to
play DVD movies on the XP one, but that really is not needed, since my
DVD player works fine on my tv set.

My final question is whether I can network to the 98 machine and use the
dialup connection from that machine on the XP one, and thus use the
newer browsers. Of course setting up a network will likely drive me
nuts too. I did it many years ago, using two computers running Windows
for Workgroups 3.11. I did get it to work to transfer software between
the two machines. These days that purpose seems pretty worthless. I
can copy my whole computer onto a USB harddrive, and move it ot the
other machine. So, who needs a network????

Thanks to everyone!