First post, by Tetrium
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I've been wondering (and also wondering if I posted a similar question earlier)...
Suppose I take an empty harddrive (hard drive Ae), fdisk and format it in DOS, create partitions, set an active partition and format it. Then I slave the drive in a random computer (which is a fully operational computer with a full version of Windows installed on harddrive Cf).
Then I take a second harddrive (harddrive Bm), put it in a rig, install a full copy of 9x on it (either 95, 98SE or ME), fully tweak it and don't install any drivers nor any extra programs. Just your basic tweaked but empty 9x install.
Then I take harddrive Bm out as well and also slave it in the same random computer.
Then I proceed to copy the entire C: partition (or at the least the Windows and Programs folder)from harddrive Bm and put it on harddrive Cf of the random machine.
Then I copy all of this to the newly fdisked and formatted harddrive Ae, take out the harddrive and put it in a complete machine which has everything in it except for the harddrive.
Question is:Will it succeed in booting up, finding the new drivers and put me on the desktop?
Or will I be looking at a "NO BOOT DEVICE FOUND" kinda error?
Edit:Tried to tidy it up a bit
Harddrive Ae (A and empty)
Harddrive Bm (B and mother drive)
Harddrive Cf (C and a full install)