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joseph2k
I have read a lot of posts and scanned lots of headers, google'd some also.
I have a bit of a weird problem:
My old athlon 800 MHz died, would not power up, replacing the power supply
did not help.
So i bought a new mobo with CPU and DDR2 Dram (2GB), the new mobo powers up
and passes POST.
The previous system was Win98SE. I am trying to save the data on the old
hard disks; 1 IDE 1 SCSI. The existing partitioning is a bit strange:
IDE:
9GB disk
8 MB system commander
3.5 GB other OS
Extended partition for the balance
{
1 GB Drive D
2.5 GB Drive E
1.8 GB unformatted / FAT (tried both)
}
and some wasted space
SCSI:
18GB disk
1.9 GB drive C
10.4 GB extended partition
{
1.9 GB drive F
1.9 GB drive G
1.9 GB drive H
!.9 GB drive I
1.9 GB drive J
}
3.4 GB Other OS
and some wasted space
The old W98SE CD is not bootable, and i do not have those boot floppies any
more. My WinXP-SP2 CD cannot deal with the existing partitioning, and will
not format / use the existing (free / formatted empty) space on the IDE
drive. IIRC XP requires a space on the "boot" drive (which was SCSI "C" in
Win98SE), but will not install there, nor will it use the free space or
formatted FAT volume on the IDE disk. I think i may be missing something
but i want to preserve as much as possible of the previous Win98
installation before getting all brute force about it. Disk volume backups
just do not preserve the registry in the same way as an upgrade install.
I have a bit of a weird problem:
My old athlon 800 MHz died, would not power up, replacing the power supply
did not help.
So i bought a new mobo with CPU and DDR2 Dram (2GB), the new mobo powers up
and passes POST.
The previous system was Win98SE. I am trying to save the data on the old
hard disks; 1 IDE 1 SCSI. The existing partitioning is a bit strange:
IDE:
9GB disk
8 MB system commander
3.5 GB other OS
Extended partition for the balance
{
1 GB Drive D
2.5 GB Drive E
1.8 GB unformatted / FAT (tried both)
}
and some wasted space
SCSI:
18GB disk
1.9 GB drive C
10.4 GB extended partition
{
1.9 GB drive F
1.9 GB drive G
1.9 GB drive H
!.9 GB drive I
1.9 GB drive J
}
3.4 GB Other OS
and some wasted space
The old W98SE CD is not bootable, and i do not have those boot floppies any
more. My WinXP-SP2 CD cannot deal with the existing partitioning, and will
not format / use the existing (free / formatted empty) space on the IDE
drive. IIRC XP requires a space on the "boot" drive (which was SCSI "C" in
Win98SE), but will not install there, nor will it use the free space or
formatted FAT volume on the IDE disk. I think i may be missing something
but i want to preserve as much as possible of the previous Win98
installation before getting all brute force about it. Disk volume backups
just do not preserve the registry in the same way as an upgrade install.