upgrade and hardrive swap

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have a 6 meg C drive and a 15 meg D drive now running off of win 98.
have purchased a new 80 meg drive and dvd burner i would like to
install. the 80 meg drive will be my C drive running my system and
the D drive i would like to retain as it has most of my music and
pictures. i'm not sure the best way to go about this. any
suggestions? thanks! mike
 
Most motherboard come with two IDE channels that support four IDE devices.
From what you wrote you have an empty connection for the new hard drive.
 
Jerry said:
Most motherboard come with two IDE channels that support four IDE devices.
From what you wrote you have an empty connection for the new hard drive.
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thanks for the input jerry. it looks like you're suggesting just
installing the third harddrive. what i'd like to do is make the 80
meg my new C drive and have the computer boot from it, with the xp
i've just purchased. at least that's my thinking. should i just pull
the current c drive and put the new 80 meg one in there and try to
boot to the xp cd? and then in what order would i try reinstalling
drivers and wireless router, etc? thanks!
 
Pull the Windows 98 drive C:.

Disconnect Drive D:

Install new 80GB as drive C:

Install XP (still without drive D: reconnected).

Once the base XP install is complete, install Wireless drivers

Before connecting to the Internet, install anti-virus and a firewall
software (XP firewall is limited but effective for now). (Note: This is to
hopefully stop the MSBlaster worm for getting onto you new XP system!)


Process all the updates for XP from Windows Update.

Reconnect Drive D: and assign it a drive letter in Disk Management. The
drive should now be available to XP.

Install all the software you want/need into XP.

Finally, enjoy!

Y.
 
If the new drive is a retail version it will possibly include
software to transfer data from you old to new drive.
I would install the burner as secondary master and the
new 80 gig as primary master. And the old drives as
slaves on each channel. Copy the data from the old
drive to the new. You say your using 98 if your planning
to install XP. I would clean install XP on the new drive
and then copy any data from the old drive that was needed.

Jim Manning
 
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