Moving files off Win98 drive

[Guest]

Hello

I currently have a HD which has Win98 installed on it. It's only 12GB, so I was thinking about getting a brand new (larger) drive and installing WinXP on it. That new drive, then, would become my C:/ drive. My question is, can I then use my current "C:/" drive, the 12GB drive with Win98 on it, as a slave drive and be able to pull files off of it? Will I be able to see the files on the slave drive even though they're in Win98? Also, since the drive containing Win98 is already a C:/ drive now, when I try to make it a slave drive for the new drive with XP, will that cause any problems

Thanks!

 

[Guest]

I am in the process of doing the same thing. I am making a cd r/w of all my important files and then will make my 98 c drive the slave in the xp machine. There is no danger in doing this. Xp will just see the (d) drive as a storage device and non bootable. So all of your files will be there for you to copy over. I hope you are meaning data files and not app software files because its doubtful that transferring an app over would work.

 

[Guest]

Awesome, thanks for the feedback Turkeyfoot. Yeah, all I am concerned with are the data files. I'm just going to reinstall apps on XP. Once I move the files over from the Win98 drive over to XP, then, I'll probably just format the old drive and go from there.

thanks!

----- turkeyfoot wrote: -----

I am in the process of doing the same thing. I am making a cd r/w of all my important files and then will make my 98 c drive the slave in the xp machine. There is no danger in doing this. Xp will just see the (d) drive as a storage device and non bootable. So all of your files will be there for you to copy over. I hope you are meaning data files and not app software files because its doubtful that transferring an app over would work.