Switching Hard Drives

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Marv Wade

I have a 40 MB HD (as drive D) on a system running XP. I want to remove this
drive and install it in a system running 98SE. I though I would first
format it in the XP system but the only option I have for formatting it if
the NTFS. Do I have to first install it in the SE system before I can
format it.

Will the SE system recognize the drive (as drive D) if it still is format
for NTFS when it is installed?

Any thoughts would be appreciated.

Marv
 
98SE does not recognize NTFS, so you will have to convert that drive to
Fat32. One way to do that is with Partition Magic or a similar partitioning
program. If you go that route, you can convert the drive without erasing the
data currently on the drive.(I'd recommend backing it up first, anyway)
Otherwise, you'll have to back up whatever is on the drive currently, then
delete the partition and re-format it as Fat32. The XP setup program won't
do that, so you would have to use 98SE, or you could use a Win98 boot disk,
which has Fdisk on it, to boot your XP system up as Win98, just long enough
to reformat the drive. That's probably more work than just moving the drive
to the the Win98 system and reformatting it there. Once it is converted to
Fat32, then you can restore the data you backed up.

Alan
 
Yeah, that is what I thought but wanted to make sure before I moved it to
the SE system.

Thanks.

Marv Wade
 
Just use fdisk from a DOS bootable floppy

----- Marv Wade wrote: ----

Yeah, that is what I thought but wanted to make sure before I moved it t
the SE system

Thanks

Marv Wad
 
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