Is there any way to read what is in the MBR of a hard drive using dos 6.22? Also can you xcopy a hard drive and include the MBR of the old hard drive to the new one. Thanks Jon

try here:

http://mbr.bigr.net/

If you use xcopy correctly it should copy over all the data and necessary boot files. I don't think the boot record comes with it you have to set the partitions up etc. I'm not 100% because there are virus tools that snap shot the master boot record.

Why would you want the MBR from the old drive? If you format the new drive with /s and then xcopy it will be there.

T

I have a program called Camcode. After copying the hard drive the program will not run on the new drive. All files are shown on the new drive including the .exe. I have used laplink and also xcopy to no avail.
Jon

Have you checked for hidden files or a volume label?


Tim

First you have to have a partition set up which you must to allow any data to be copied. Second it must be a primary partition to allow booting. Third it must be set to active which fdisk can tell you the answer to that. Then when you xcopy you have to use several switches. It is something like this but the switches can be in any order. I used to use heckory.
xcopy [source] [destination] /E /C /H /K /R /Y /O. This will copy everything over and should make it bootable. Second the drive must be master on the ide channel after you copy it over to boot up.