2 OS's on same computer ?

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I have added a hard drive and installed fresh W 2000Pro..I took the orignal
drive and made it a slave so I can get doc files...etc...from the drive from
W98.

I was surprised to see that the old drive was reconigizxed...I thouhgt you
could not have two different Windows operating systems on two drives in the
same computer ?

Are there any problems with leaving the second/old drive as is until I copy
all data or doc files from it..?..will the W98 operating system on the
second drive affect the setup and adding of programs...etc...to the new hard
drive with 2000Pro on it now ?

thanks,

tIM
 
Your computer doesn't know it has two operating systems - it's just reading
files from a second disk. Copy what you like.
 
You should have no problem under W2k doing what you want with that data
on the slave drive. Everything on it is just files as far as W2k is
concerned, including the W98 system structures.

The above assumes that at boot you don't see a screen enabling you to
boot into your choice of either the W2k or the old W98. If in fact you
do see such a boot manager screen, then you inadvertently created a dual
boot system. If this is the case, you can still do what you want with
the data files, and if you want to get rid of the old W98 entirely
that's quite simple too. Just post back in this thread for "how-to" info.
 
I was surprised to see that the old drive was reconigizxed...I thouhgt you
could not have two different Windows operating systems on two drives in the
same computer ?
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It's been that way for a long time.

See:
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;289283&Product=win2000


Are there any problems with leaving the second/old drive as is until I copy
all data or doc files from it..?..will the W98 operating system on the
second drive affect the setup and adding of programs...etc...to the new hard
drive with 2000Pro on it now ?
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No.

hth
DDS W 2k MVP MCSE
 
Tim said:
I have added a hard drive and installed fresh W 2000Pro..I took the orignal
drive and made it a slave so I can get doc files...etc...from the drive from
W98.

I was surprised to see that the old drive was reconigizxed...I thouhgt you
could not have two different Windows operating systems on two drives in the
same computer ?

Are there any problems with leaving the second/old drive as is until I copy
all data or doc files from it..?..will the W98 operating system on the
second drive affect the setup and adding of programs...etc...to the new hard
drive with 2000Pro on it now ?

thanks,

tIM
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Further to the other comments, you can have quite a bit more than 2 OSs
co-existing on a single system. Up to 4 primary partitions are supported by
a basic bios for each seperate hard drive. The same goes for file systems.
Fat16 /Fat32 /NTFS /Linux VFS. The question in the end is whether the active
OS can interpret a given file system or not.
 
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