Installing slave drive

[Glenn]

I have XP running well now after an upgrade from 98.

I want to install an old hard drive as a slave that has
files I want to use. The old drive has W98 installed.

I want to remove W98 from the old drive. What is the
proper procedure and sequence for doing that?

Thanks

 

[Norm]

Install it as the slave, copy the files over to your C drive that you want
to save and then format it. Or just start deleting the folders on it that
you do not want. You will not be able to uninstall 98 from it.

 

[Rob Schneider]

Norm wrote:

*snip*

to save and then format it. Or just start deleting the folders on it that
you do not want. You will not be able to uninstall 98 from it.

*snip*

Surely once this older drive is installed and working as a slave as
described, then he'll be able to delete all the files under c:\windows
and the boot up programs in the c:\ folder which contain all the Windows
98 programs?

Yes, to fully remove Win 98 requires removing the Master Boot Record
(MBR), but since it's a "slave" disk now and not bootable, it doesn't
really matter any since the MBR is trivially small.

Or am I missing something?

 

[Norm]

Rob, I thought that I pretty much said what you just did, maybe not in
exactly the same way but I did say they could just delete the folders they
don't want, windows would obviously be one of them.

 

[Rob Schneider]

Yea... I was reacting to "You will not be able to uninstall 98 from it".
With the double-negatives, I guess mis-read it wrongly. Sorry.

 

[Alex Nichol]

I have XP running well now after an upgrade from 98.

I want to install an old hard drive as a slave that has
files I want to use. The old drive has W98 installed.

I want to remove W98 from the old drive. What is the
proper procedure and sequence for doing that?

Plug the drive in, ensure it is detected correctly by BIOS (in LBA mode)
and boot XP.

If you had data files on it you could in principle delete things around
them, but I would copy them off in XP Explorer first to your other drive
and then format. Go to Control Panel - Admin Tools - Computer
Management, select Disk Management and look lower right for the graphic
of the drive.. R-click in the partition and take 'Format' to have it
fully cleaned off.