Adding a Slave Hard Drive

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Hi,

I have a pc currently running win98se. I would like to do a full
installation of windows 2000 pro on this pc. The data on the pc is
important to me and I want to save it.


I have a second pc running windows 2000 pro. Is it possible to add the
win98 hard drive as a slave drive into the win2000 pc. My thinking is
that I might be able to copy the data onto my 2nd pc drive and then
replace the hard drive back into the first, wipe it clean and install
2000 on that pc too. The space and the cables are present.


Grateful for any help,
jake
 
Add it as a slave, jumpered accordingly, and copy data across.
PS If the data was important you would have had a backup?
 
jake said:
Hi,

I have a pc currently running win98se. I would like to do a full
installation of windows 2000 pro on this pc. The data on the pc is
important to me and I want to save it.


I have a second pc running windows 2000 pro. Is it possible to add the
win98 hard drive as a slave drive into the win2000 pc. My thinking is
that I might be able to copy the data onto my 2nd pc drive and then
replace the hard drive back into the first, wipe it clean and install
2000 on that pc too. The space and the cables are present.


Grateful for any help,
jake
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Yes, you can install the Win98 disk as a slave disk on your
Win2000 PC and access its data.
 
DL said:
Add it as a slave, jumpered accordingly, and copy data across.
PS If the data was important you would have had a backup?
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Ok thanks for your help DL.
I have some of the data backed up on disk but I've had trouble
burning discs on my old machine-theres a lot I havent backed up. Much
of it is artwork/ photoshop files. They are large in file size and I
can't get many on standard cdroms.
 
jake said:
Ok thanks for your help DL.
I have some of the data backed up on disk but I've had trouble
burning discs on my old machine-theres a lot I havent backed up. Much
of it is artwork/ photoshop files. They are large in file size and I
can't get many on standard cdroms.
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Buy a DVD burner. They don't cost much and they have a capacity of
4.7 GBytes.
 
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