Hi, Lee.
Moving WinNT4 itself is academic. Simply forget your current installation,
plug in the IDE drive as primary master, boot from the WinXP CD-ROM and
follow the prompts. If you have the upgrade version of WinXP, at some point
it will ask for proof that you have a product that qualifies you for the
upgrade; at that point, put the WinNT CD-ROM into the drive momentarily to
satisfy Setup. There's no need or advantage to transferring WinNT4 to the
IDE drive before the upgrade.
But if you have applications installed under WinNT4, and you want them to
run under WinXP, the process will be more involved. Most likely, you will
need to reinstall the apps from their original CDs or other media, then
simply Copy any data files, boot into the app and browse to find the data in
its new location. You might possibly be able to migrate the apps and their
settings from WinNT4 to WinXP, but it probably would be less hassle to
reinstall them from scratch. Tell us more and we can tell you more.
In any case, your WinNT4 was customized with SCSI drivers when you installed
it on SCSI originally. It won't boot from IDE until you let Setup run -
which basically means a complete reinstall of Windows. If your IDE uses a
controller for which drivers are not on the WinXP CD-ROM, you will need to
have those drivers available on a floppy diskette before you begin, then
Press F6 to install SCSI or other drivers when Setup asks for that. Drivers
for secondary HDs can be added fairly simply after WinXP is installed, but
to boot any NT-version of Windows requires the drivers for the boot device
to be integrated into Windows when Setup runs.
RC
