IBM disk utility

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I'm working with an old piece of kit and I need to copy the software settings and configuration exactly.

It's a 486DX2 with a 6GB hard drive running MS-DOS. Due to both partitioning and BIOS restrictions the stup is a little peculiar.

On startup a program called 'IBM Dynamic Disk Overlay' is run so that it can bypass the BIOS' inability to read all of the disks and the remaining areas of the disk are then further subdevided to a primary partion and a further partition with several logical partitions within it.

I have tried using a ghosting utility to make an exact copy of the file system structure (which worked) but the IBM software will not work - coming up with the error message, "Operating System will not Load".

Any ideas of what I can do or who I can ask?
 
Where are you copying the image of the HD to, and why do you need the IBM program? I'd just mount the HD image inside VMware and go with that.
 
Long story... short version is that it will be running in a standalone device and running some rather outdated, but very useful, DOS based software designed to run with a particular partition arrangement.
 
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