Adding an old win 98 disk to a new XP PC

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Daryl

Hi. I'm about to purchase a WINXP system to replace my fairly sluggish Win98
system. I will be wanting to install my current Win98 HDD (a 20Gb fat32)
into the WinXP system (which will have a 120Gb ntfs drive) as a secondary
drive to aid file transfer and give myself a few extra Gb of space (after
the drive installation I will be reformatting the drive - not keeping
win98). I have done this in the past (win95>win98) but wondered if there are
any preparations I should make to the files on the old disk so that I can
simply insert it into the new PC.

Will XP automatically recognise the old drive bearing in mind the 2 file
systems?

Any ideas?

Many thanks,

Daryl
 
Just stick the drive in. You might have to change jumpers, but essentially it works as it worked for you before.
 
David Candy said:
Just stick the drive in. You might have to change jumpers, but essentially it works as it worked for you before.
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I agree with David. I would expect that you have to change the
jumper settings from master to slave if you connect the disk as
the second device to the primary IDE port. Or to any IDE port,
for that matter, because there will probably be a DVD drive as
master on the secondary port.

Hans-Georg
 
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