Moving old master drive with win98 to slave on XP?

[Arnie Goetchius]

I have a new Dell with XP. I plan to take the drive from my old computer
which is running win98 and make it the slave on the XP. I understand the
issues about setting jumpers for master and slave. Can XP handle the
fact that win98 will be on the slave drive and that it is configured as
a bootable drive? IOW, wiil the fact that the slave drive has a bootable
win98 partition on it screw up XP? I don't need win98 and will
eventually delete it but I need to be able access the data files stored
on the slave drive.

 

[Rich Barry]

Arnie, it will not screw up XP. You may have to rt click MyComputer>select
Manage>Disk Management>rt click on the
old drive and give it a drive letter. I would put the old drive on the
Secondary IDE channel as Master. If you have cdrom
or cd/dvd burner slave that to it.

 

[Arnie Goetchius]

Okay, sounds good. I have a CD-Rom, IDE ZIP-100, Drive 1, Drive 2. Based

 

[Anna]

Okay, sounds good. I have a CD-Rom, IDE ZIP-100, Drive 1, Drive 2. Based
on what you are suggesting, the only place left for the Zip drive is on
the primary IDE channel as slave. Will that work OK?

Arnie:
Rich is correct in that the fact that Win98 is installed on the old drive
should not cause any problem as long as you're not going to boot to it and
you're using it solely for storage and/or backup purposes; however, I'm not
sure why Rich recommended installing the old drive as a Master on the
Secondary IDE channel. In this situation it really doesn't matter whether
it's connected as a Slave to your Primary Master drive or as either a Master
or Slave on the Secondary IDE channel.

It is conceivable as Rich mentions that you *may* have to use Disk
Management to assign a drive letter to that drive after it's installed, but
usually that will be handled automatically by the OS. If the assigned drive
letter is not the one you want, you can later access DM to change it.
Anna

 

[Arnie Goetchius]

Arnie:
Rich is correct in that the fact that Win98 is installed on the old drive
should not cause any problem as long as you're not going to boot to it and
you're using it solely for storage and/or backup purposes; however, I'm not
sure why Rich recommended installing the old drive as a Master on the
Secondary IDE channel. In this situation it really doesn't matter whether
it's connected as a Slave to your Primary Master drive or as either a Master
or Slave on the Secondary IDE channel.

It is conceivable as Rich mentions that you *may* have to use Disk
Management to assign a drive letter to that drive after it's installed, but
usually that will be handled automatically by the OS. If the assigned drive
letter is not the one you want, you can later access DM to change it.
Anna

Thanks for your thoughts. Right now the new computer has the hardrive on the
primary IDE and the CD-Rom on the secondary IDE. Physically, it wil be easier to
hook the second drive as the slave on the primary IDE and the Zip disk as the
slave on the secondary IDE. I'll probably start with that.