I have and old 486 computer and ONE day the bios just stops seeing the 40gb hard drive. It has an old Award bios that isn't SUPPOSED to be able to see such a large drive. I have no idea how the computer worked with the larger drive but it did. I can boot an old QNX 500mb drive so I know the computer is ok. I'm not at the point of TRYING to flash the bios YET since it has some sort of custom made Andron 486 CPU card. I have created and formated a 500mb partition on an old drive. The bios can see it ok and I can also see the drive on an old NT desktop I have. I would like to create an image of the old hard drive partition. However the old drive partition is 2gb of which 300mb is used. The question is can I create an image of the old drive that is about 500mb so it will fit on my newly created drive?You will need to use a drive overlay software ...usually from the drive manuf. to utilize that 40G drive in a DOS enviornment...
And yes...at that point imaging thew drive would work.