Adding additional harddrives

[Jay]

Hi,

I have a 30 gb Western Digital harddrive with Win 98 on it
that runs on one computer. I am trying to add another
harddrive (60 gb Seagate) to it. I got the Seagate HD
from my other computer which was running Win XP, but the
power supply went out, and now I want to put the Seagate
(Win XP) HD as a slave to the WD HD (win 98(, so that I
can transfer some information off the XP HD onto the Win98
HD. Is this possible to do? when ever I put it as a
slave It will not read the XP HD, it only sees the Win 98
HD. and it will not run at all as the master HD. Please
Help....

Thank you in advance
Jay

 

[Cari MS-MVP]

Probably because the 60gb drive is formatted as NTFS which the 30gb hard
drive, formatted in FAT32 cannot read.

Possible solution...

Set the 60gb as master, set the 30gb as slave and do a Repair Installation
of XP as
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;[LN];315341

It will 'turn' your old PC into a PC that is now Windows XP but you can then
copy the files you want from the 60gb to the 30gb. When you've done that,
you can swap the drives round again... and go back to it being a Win98 PC...
NTFS can see FAT32... but not the other way round! FAT32 can see NTFS over
a network if that is another option you can consider.

Cari
www.coribright.com

 

[Howard Brazee]

I have a 30 gb Western Digital harddrive with Win 98 on it
that runs on one computer. I am trying to add another
harddrive (60 gb Seagate) to it. I got the Seagate HD
from my other computer which was running Win XP, but the
power supply went out, and now I want to put the Seagate
(Win XP) HD as a slave to the WD HD (win 98(, so that I
can transfer some information off the XP HD onto the Win98
HD. Is this possible to do? when ever I put it as a
slave It will not read the XP HD, it only sees the Win 98
HD. and it will not run at all as the master HD. Please
Help....

One trouble I can see is if your XP drive is formatted NTFS. If so, Windows 98
is not advanced enough to read it.

One solution that sometimes works for me is to install it as a slave and then
try to install Windows XP over the current installation of Windows XP (on what
is now your D: drive). This will create a dual boot, allowing you to pick W98
or WXP to boot to. While Windows 98 still won't be able to see a NTFS drive,
you can boot to the 2nd Windows and copy data over to C:.

Or just upgrade your Windows 98 to Windows NT. I have called MS when I needed
to move a license over and they accepted me at my word and let me do so. With
the old computer dead, your license can be moved to the other computer. When
it is upgraded to XP, it can read your slave with no problem.

 

[Pavel]

Most people will tell you that you must install WindowsXP because Windows98
can not read NTFS formatted disks. But this is not what you want to hear.
You want to do it from your Win98. Ok here is what you need:

http://www.sysinternals.com/ntw2k/freeware/ntfswin98.shtml