Taking and old hard drive out

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Hi my friend is getting a new computer from his dad and wants to be
able to keep the old hard drive in his computer with win 98 on it. He
also wants to get a new hard drive and run XP will he be able to run
both programs from his old hard drive if he sets it up as Slave? and
runs XP on the Master????
if not is there away to keep all the files and programs and transfer
them over to the new hard drive with out losing the programs that he
don’t have some install disks for?
thank for the help :lol:
 
No the installation of XP will rewrite the registry so the programs
will have to be reinstalled. All the data will remain on the drive as
well as the program files but they will not run on the XP installation.

You may be able to do a dual boot between XP and Win98 but
 
No the installation of XP will rewrite the registry so the programs
will have to be reinstalled. All the data will remain on the drive as
well as the program files but they will not run on the XP installation.

You may be able to do a dual boot between XP and Win98 but you will
have to look up info on that

--proph3t
 
The easiest thing to do may be to install the new HD as a slave and
perform a WinXP upgrade on the Win98 disk, then your programs registry
entries will remain and most if not all will run under XP
 
Jimwest said:
Hi my friend is getting a new computer from his dad and wants to be
able to keep the old hard drive in his computer with win 98 on it. He
also wants to get a new hard drive and run XP will he be able to run
both programs from his old hard drive if he sets it up as Slave? and
runs XP on the Master????
if not is there away to keep all the files and programs and transfer
them over to the new hard drive with out losing the programs that he
don't have some install disks for?
thank for the help :lol:
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I had a tinker a while back on an old tower I use for messing with. I had
98 and its associated programmes (Word, Excel et al) installed on the
partition used as C: drive. I installed XP onto the second (D:) partition
and it automatically gave me dual boot with both systems able to work
independently. Each had its own copy of Word, Excel et al installed into
its partition. This was two partitions on one physical drive but I would
be surprised if it did not work the same on two drives. Worth a try anyway
because at worst you will simply find that it doesn't work. If it does
work, and you keep both systems on Fat 32 rather than the XP being NTFS
either system will be able to access files on the other.
 
Hi my friend is getting a new computer from his dad and wants to be
able to keep the old hard drive in his computer with win 98 on it. He
also wants to get a new hard drive and run XP will he be able to run
both programs from his old hard drive if he sets it up as Slave? and
runs XP on the Master????
if not is there away to keep all the files and programs and transfer
them over to the new hard drive with out losing the programs that he
don’t have some install disks for?
thank for the help :lol:
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Yes and for now this is how I would do it.Leave old drive as
Master(Win98) and install new hard drive as Master on 2nd IDE port.
Run WinXP install and choose,"New Install"not a upgrade and choose the
new 2nd drive.

When done and you re-boot you will be given a boot menu where you can
choose which O/S to run whenever you like :)
Note:
If you install WinXP with the NTFS file system when you boot win98 it
will not be bale to see the 2nd drive as per above setup but WinXP
will be bale to see both drives and all data.
HTH :)
 
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