xxclone Windows 98 Second Edition

[Siegfried Nitschke]

Dear Members,
I tried to use Xxclone Freeware and Xxclone Test Drive and experienced the following: In
contradiction to pictures in the Help section I saw empty lines for Source-and Target Volume.
Instead of the "diskmgmt" appeared "FDISK" on my screen. I see no possibility to continue my work
under these circumstances. I believe that there is a relation between these two facts. As I know,
"diskmgmt" does not exist in Windows 98. What can I do?
Thanks in advance,
Nick

[bibei]

I have the same problem!
Burkhard

[DES]

Yes there is no "diskmgmt" in W98. (And actually xxclone isn't required
there.) W98 assigns drive letters to volumes in this order at boot;
active partitions encountered beginning with disk0, then logical
volumes beginning back at disk0. Or 2 disks (0 & 1), each with 1 active
partition are C: & D: (This letter assignment can be manipulated via
something like: http://www.v72735.f2s.com/LetAssig/. But this tool
isn't actually for bootable volumes (don't allow it to change the
configuration data when switching boot disks). In fact I can't really
recommend it as it's correct use can be complicated.) If D: is a
complete copy of C: (and xxcopy is sufficient in W98) it will boot as
C: if connected physically as drive0 (for test purposes). And should
drive0 fail to boot for some reason then drive1 should simply boot in
it's place. Some software is keyed to the physical volume it's
installed on (Volume ID), I suppose as a copy prevention? I've had no
ill effects from also duplicating the Volume ID's for corresponding
partitions across all my disks solving this problem. The SerNum utility
included in LetterAssigner will do this in W98.

DES