First post, by retrofan01
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I'm trying to move a Win98SE installation from a SanDisk Extreme III 8GB CF card to a SanDisk Extreme 64GB UDMA7 CF card to boot on my Dell Dimension M233S but it's proving far more fiddly than I expected.
I tried Win32DiskImager and HDDRawCopy thinking that a clone of the 8GB card then a resize of the partition to 64GB would work but the boot process gets stuck around the part where it loads the mouse driver - at no stage do I see the Win98 logo screen. Leaving the partition on the 64GB card at 8GB after writing the image to it (i.e. no partition resize) also produces boot failures.
I then used this tutorial to prepare the 64GB card for Win98 (FDISK then format c: /s) but when I copy the files via Windows Explorer on my modern Win10 PC from my 8GB CF card -> NTFS-formatted SSD -> 64GB CF card, the files somehow end up corrupted and Win98 throws up CONFIG.SYS errors during boot.
I've reformatted the 64GB card and prepared it again so that it boots into Win98's COMMAND.COM but I'm not sure of the best way to proceed from here. I have one USB-CF reader on my modern PC and one IDE-CF reader on the Dell machine so connecting both CF cards to the same machine is currently out of the question and I'd rather not have to buy any additional hardware to do this if possible. Is there a way of copying the files over from the 8GB CF card to the 64GB card that won't corrupt them or is there a reliable way to do an image copy instead? Or is the 64GB CF card simply not compatible with the Dell?